By Jerry Corley
Recently I got an e-mail from a guy who said, “Jerry, I’ve been reading your stuff and Bill Burr doesn’t use any of the structures you talk about:”
REALLY?
Bill Burr has quickly become one of my favorite comedians. He’s intelligent. He’s crafty, and the dude is wickedly funny!
He’s narrowed down his demographic . . . → Read More: How to Write Comedy Like Bill Burr
By Jerry Corley
WE DEVELOP COMEDIANS!
“WINNER” – 2013 CALIFORNIA’S FUNNIEST FEMALE
PAULINE YASUDA
“WINNER” – 2011 L.A.’S FUNNIEST COMIC (UNDER 2YRS)
JC MORGAN
. . . → Read More: Comedy Class | Burbank | Saturdays
By Jerry Corley So you wake up early today. Maybe you go for a run, maybe you walk the dog, maybe, like me, you’re up early because you have a toddler in the house who wakes you up, because they don’t know that you’ve been up the night before trying to write.
But you feel like today . . . → Read More: Writing Funny about Proposition 8
By Jerry Corley You really want to know what’s funny? How ’bout some obscure blogger, (Me!), trying to write an article entitled “What is Funny?!”
Funny is such a subjective term.
How is anyone going to write about how to be funny? It’s almost like trying to definitively answer, “Who is God?” Or “What is Love?” . . . → Read More: What Is Funny?
By Jerry Corley
We had our combined showcase this Thursday at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, for our Beginning/Advanced . . . → Read More: Comedy Class | Getting Your Time Cut
By Jerry Corley Hmmm? What’s that you say? Tell the truth? Why do I need to waste my time telling the truth when I’m busy trying to be funny?
One of the best things about comedy is that almost anything goes, especially the truth.
My comedy students ask me: “what do I do when they’re not . . . → Read More: Comedy Class | Need A Laugh? Tell The Truth!
By Jerry Corley As part of my Comedy Classes series, I am including a post that was shared with me from another student. This is a segment from the BBC’s series on The Art of Stand Up (also available on YouTube and the BBC website). It features interviews with many popular comedians from the U.K. and the . . . → Read More: Comedy Classes | Video: The Art Of Stand Up – Pt. 1
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