Intro to Joke Craft

Top 50 Jokes and Components

• 6 week course

• Online

Homework: 10 jokes a day.

Jokes are the backbone of comedy and its what separates comedians from amateurs, comperes and storytellers. This course will give you a thorough grounding in joke types and how they work. Then we’ll drill down to components, which will help you construct any kind of joke you want.

It’s an intense course, certainly a baptism of fire if you’ve not spent much time in comedy, but you’ll get the hang of it.

We’ll have to cover some performance aspects because these are jokes to be said, not jokes to be read.

We’ll show you how to build joke muscles, push you to write a wider variety of jokes and not just aim for a punchline, but multiple punchlines. Let’s assume you have a stack of half finished ideas and this will show you how to finish them. It’s all about quantity, quality and then quantity/quality.

Structure gives you ideas and makes the idea work.

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