#comedy school

It’s finals

Alex has worked crazy hard to graduate and become a pun master. He’s on the final question and there it is.

The question no-one has been able to answer in years.

John Roy’s Completely Free Stand Up Comedy Course

I’ve heard of this thing a million times from people and never taken a look until now because, well, it slipped to the cracks! But it’s just as awesome as everyone says! John Roy is a veteran comedian based in LA who has created a whole 12-week, completely free comedy course. Roy mentions in the first week that, “The majority consensus among fellow comedians are that [comedy courses] are of…

Are you the “funny guy/girl" in your office? Are you always the life of the party? Have you always wished you were the life of the party? Think you’re funny, but wonder what strangers will think? If your answer is “yes" to any of these questions (and even if it’s not), you won’t want to miss Gotham Comedy Club and The Manhattan Comedy School’s next seminar on July 20th!

Speakers include:

Wali Collins - Letterman, Comedy Central half hour special, The View, hosted events for President Obama and Michele Obama

Cory Kahaney - HBO, Comedy Central, The Late Show with Letterman

Harrison Greenbaum - Spike TV, WE, SIRIUS Satellite Radio

Karen Bergreen - Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, New Joke City and her recent novel “Following Polly" has received rave reviews from The New York Times and Oprah. Karen is also the instructor for Manhattan Comedy School.

Jimmy Faila - ESPN, Today Show, and his own radio show “Off the Meter” on Westwood One.

Plus Andrew Engel, founder of the Manhattan Comedy School and comedy producer.

This seminar is perfect even if you don’t want to quit your day job. “You Can Do Stand-Up Comedy" is not only an informative seminar for anyone interested in improving your public speaking skills, helping your sales presentations, or helping you get started in stand-up comedy, but it is also very entertaining and funny.

Topics covered include: how & where to get started, 5 ways to get stage time in New York City, what to put on your DVD, and basic rules for writing a joke, and much, much more. There will also be a Q&A session. Representatives from the Manhattan Comedy School will be on hand to provide information on the 8-week course taught at New York’s top Comedy School. The graduation show for this class is a live performance at Gotham Comedy Club where students will receive a FREE broadcast quality DVD.

Date: July 20, 2013 Check In at 11:30am

Held at Gotham Comedy Club 208 West 23rd St. Between 7th and 8th Avenues Speakers subject to change

For more info, call: 212-462-3200

Progress is being steadily made and the updated space at 40 Prospect looks GREAT.  Soon, everybody, SOOOOON. 

Top secret blueprints for the studio stage. They include a tunnel below the city where Nicholas Cage will live.

Wood. Saw. Magic.

Mainstage booth: now with more legroom. And for just $15, you can upgrade to a bigger shelf with ample overhead compartment space.

Be True To Your School.

Splitsider - Throughout Saturday Night Live's history, the show's cast has been mostly culled from four places: the stand-up world, L.A.'s Groundlings Theatre, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatres in L.A. and New York, and the Chicago improv sketch/scene (the Second City, iO, and Annoyance theaters). Sure, there are wildcard hires who avoided these standard comedy training grounds, like Fred Armisen – a drummer for a punk rock bank who caught the eye of Bob Odenkirk after making some videos of himself bothering strangers at a music festival – or Anthony Michael Hall – an actor from John Hughes's Brat Pack who had a one-season run on the show in the '80s – or Andy Samberg – who got his start making viral videos for Channel 101. But despite the occasional oddSNL beginnings story, the bulk of the cast throughout the years has come from the aforementioned four places.

Since 1975, there have been peaks and valleys to each comedy theater's influence on the show. In the '80s and '90s, a large portion of the cast were stand-ups, whereas there's only one stand-up on the show now, which currently has more alumni from Chicago's Second City and iO theaters than from anywhere else.