Intro To Standup Comedy - 4-Week Course & Graduation Show

About The Course:

Our four-week Intro To Standup Comedy course will teach you everything you need to know in order to, well, do standup comedy.

It’s in the name of the course.

Why are you making us spell it out for you like this?

Honestly, if you need this explained to you then this standup comedy course might not be the right thing for you.

Anyway, our four-week standup course is great.

It will teach you how to write material, turn that material into jokes, how to perform those jokes on stage, and how to navigate the world of standup.

It won’t make you smarter, taller, thinner, better at golf, or a more passionate and attentive lover.

Sorry.

This course includes a graduation show for you and your classmates where you can invite friends, family, co-workers and neighbors to come see you overshare your personal sexual history and disparage your loved ones into a microphone.

We also offer several open mics a week where you can practice your standup comedy and jokes.

No other standup comedy school or program in California (and probably the world) offers as much stage time per week for its students as we do.

This is important because you can’t learn to swim just by reading a textbook. And you can’t learn and improve at standup comedy without actually doing it a couple of times a week.

Anyone who tells you different is either wrong, a liar or both.

Our course is for students 18 years and older. No expectations. We don’t care if you have a super mature 16-year-old who you think is funny. This class is adults only.

All ticket sales for this class are final. No refunds. No exceptions.

Students must attend all four class meetings in order to perform on the final graduation show.

Scheduled Class Dates:

Sunday May 12th – 2pm to 4:30pm
Sunday May 19th – 2pm to 4:30pm
Sunday May 26th – 2pm to 4:30pm
Sunday June 2nd – 2pm to 4:30pm

About The Instructor:

This course is taught by Dan Bialek who is the owner and creative director of our theater. Dan has a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He has studied improv acting and comedy writing at The Groundlings, The Upright Citizens Brigade and IO West. He has written comedic content for NBC, CBS, Funny Or Die, National Lampoon, Smosh, ESPN and numerous other prestigious outlets and several disreputable ones. He has performed standup comedy and hosted live events for over 20 years and has taught standup comedy and comedy writing for the past 15 years. He is also a former door guy at The World Famous Comedy Store in Hollywood and has produced live comedy shows at The Hollywood Improv, Upright Citizens Brigade and Westside Comedy Theater.

Host or Publisher The Amazing Comedy Theater