Learn how to generate a power Standup script full of never-fail joke grenades! How to overcome your nasty midnight fears of that scary-mean stage! How to rule a tough crowd and pound them into kitten-like submission with your wit and questionable sense of style!

Classes are $200 with a $100 deposit due the first day of class. Refer a friend and get $75 off your class. Students who enroll in more than one course are eligible for a one-time $100 discount that can translate into instant savings that can be spent on leisure activities like online bingo, on your special ’stand-up’ suit or that all important red nose (or not). Our students get into most of our shows for free and get first crack and discounts at workshops and special events from visiting instructors. Once a level of study is completed, students are free to participate in all future classes in same level. All levels of class run for 8 weeks at 2 hours each. Check the widget to your right for information on class dates and payment!

Level 1: Foundations of Standup Comedy
Getting started with the basics of Performance, Script, and Character for Standup

Level 2: Becoming a local Standup
Crafting 10 good minutes, learning various audiences, how to do crowd work

Level 3: Becoming a Semi-Pro Standup
Learning the biz of Standup, getting stage time, getting hired, plotting a career

Level 4: Masters Level Standup
Ongoing workshop for those wanting to get paid to do Standup, creating character, marketing yourself, creating signature bits

About the instructor, Dan French:
Dan French is a twice Emmy-nominated comedy writer, with a wide variety of credits. In talk shows, Dan has worked as a staff writer and producer on Dennis Miller, The Late, Late Show at CBS, and The Best Damn Sports Show Period. In narrative TV, Dan has had sitcom, variety, and reality projects with such companies as Quentin Tarrantino’s A Band Apart Productions, Pariah Entertainment, and Sony. In film, Dan is a punch-up writer, and author of four as-of-yet unproduced screenplays. In live performance, Dan is a headlining standup comic who has performed in most of the major comedy clubs and nearly every state in the country. Dan also writes for numerous nationally known standup comedians, including Dennis Miller, Rodney Carrington, Ron White, Jimmy Shubert, and Jon Reep.

Dan is a former college professor with a Ph.D. in Communication Studies, and has taught courses including screenwriting, sitcom writing, comedy writing, media theory and criticism.

Dan also teaches seminars on comedy writing, comedy careers, and standup. He has mentored a huge list of young comedians who have gone on to work on such shows as Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, network sitcoms (Everybody Loves Raymond, The King of Queens, Rodney) and appeared in hundreds of national commercials.