You But Funnier Workshop with Beth Lapides

Schedule

Mon Nov 17 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

The Crow | Santa Monica, CA

Are you ready to fully embody your own unique comedic perspective? Learn more with Beth Lapides!
About this Event

Are you ready to fully embody your own unique comedic perspective? And then figure out what to do with it?


Beth Lapides' signature workshop, You But Funnier, provides a clear system for finding your most unique comedic voice and the stories that are essential to it. It’s an energized and highly effective session that kicks you into the next level of being the funniest version of the real you. The workshop has proven to be life-changing for both writers and performers.


Scholarships available! Apply today: https://forms.gle/r9DaBkHNvzNoYyg1A

Please note scholarship applicants will be selected after Early Bird sales have finished.


Who is this workshop for?

Are you searching for those perfect killer stories?

Are you so close to your best material that you are not quite sure what's missing?

Is your page to stage transformation not quite working?

Tired of shlepping around to do sets and not getting any better?

Looking for that comedic edge for your memoir?

In need of a storytelling muse?

If any of that resonates with you, Beth's workshop is for you!

"You need alt comedy swami Beth Lapides!" LA Weekly.

“The godmother of alternative comedy!” LA Times “A potentially life-changing treasure!”


Who is Beth Lapides? Beth is the creatrix of UnCabaret, the show that launched the alt comedy revolution. (Comedy Central, Amazon, audible). She’s the author of the genre bending original audiobook “So You Need To Decide”. Beth is a master creativity coach, muse and consultant at The Infinite Creator. Oh, and you may recognize her from “Sex & The City.”Beth has taught independently and at UCLA Extension, Second City, IOWest, Actors Comedy Studio, CSUN, SMoCA, UCLA Extension, Second City, IOWest, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Erma Bombeck Writer's Workshop, and more.


What else has Beth done? Beth Lapides is the host and producer of UnCabaret, one of LA's longest running shows! The show had long running residencies at venues including HBO Workspace, LunaPark, The Knitting Factory, M Bar, AuLac, The Skirball Cultural Center and more. Plus UnCabaret toured to the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Theater at The Ace, The Nimoy, colleges and performing arts centers nationally. Currently UnCab is running monthly at El Cid. UnCab is filled with iconoclasts like Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, Alex Edelman, Kathy Griffin, Dana Gould, Jennifer Coolidge, Merrill Markoe, Jen Kirkman, Drew Droege, Bobcat Goldthwait, Julia Sweeney, Joey Soloway, Sandra Bernhard, Michael Patrick King, Byron Bowers, Judy Gold, Janeane Garofalo, Scott Thompson, Maria Bamford, Carrie Fisher, Karen Kilgariff, The Sklar Brothers, Taylor Negron, Baron Vaughn, Jeff Garlin, Alec Mapa, Tim Bagley.


But how do I know Beth can write and should be teaching me? Beth is the author of the critically acclaimed original audiobook, "So You Need To Decide." Vulture Top Comedy Books of 2022. "A potentially life changing treasure!" Variety. Her writing is included in several anthologies. Her critically acclaimed book of haiku Did I Wake You? was published by Soft Skull Press. She was featured in and on Vulture's Good One Podcast, Comedy Central, NPR's All Things Considered, Sex & The City, Will & Grace, Interview Magazine, O, Time Magazine, The LA Times, Elle Decor, Premier Magazine, LA Yoga and more.She has a pilot in development with Emmy award winning producer Cary Brokaw/Avenue Pictures.She's performed in countless comedy clubs including The Improv, The Comedy Store, Catch A Rising Star and The Laugh Factory.

Her most recent solo show It's A Lot was nominated for best cabaret show Palm Springs by Broadway World. She's toured her solo internationally and received several NEA's for that work.

She hosted a radio show for Comedy World Radio and her podcast, "Life & Beth" featured guests like Daniel Radcliffe, Lily Taylor, Ana Gasteyer, Willem Dafoe, Justin Willman, and more and she her current podcast The Infinite Creator is available everywhere yu get your pods.Beth is also the creator and host of the UnCabaret spinoff show "The Other Network of UnAired Pilots," which toured to independent theaters and festivals including The Montreal Comedy Festival. It unearthed and screened mind-blowing, and previously unseen pilots by Conan O’Brien, Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel, Bob Odenkirk, Ben Stiller, Merrill Markoe and others, along with the stories of the creation and ultimate non-airing of the shows. The series was sparked by the cancellation of Beth's MTV talk show The Couch.


Beth has a BA from Brown University in Modes of Expression and her visual work was exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Library among others.

Do you really need more info?

Google her or just click below:

http://www.Bethlapides.com

https://bethlapides.substack.com/


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Where is it happening?

The Crow, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, United States
Tickets

USD 49.87 to USD 65.87

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