Comedy Workshops presented by FunnyFest

Learn from the pros through a hilarious and non-competitive Comedy Workshop! An opportunity to improve your comedy skills, your humour in the workplace skills and also become a stand up comic — FunnyFest would teach you the secrets of stand up comedy!

This highly interactive, all day comedy workshop (or held over 2 consecutive days) for any person interested in stand up comedy and/or applying proven stand up comedy techniques to your personal and business life.

Stand up comedy is an art and science. Laughter is a gift and a useful tool. The FunnyFest workshop will make you think, work and improve. These universal principals you can apply in your business and everyday life.

The training will benefit you on a daily basis as you interact with others in meetings, business and personal levels. We want you to excel at making the best and biggest impact in a clean, humorous and efficient manner. Everybody wins! The ideal relationship communication victory! A 3-way win-win-win for the audience or your clients, your boss and you! That is what this workshop is about: providing tools and knowledge to produce positive and progressive communication impact to help you get what you want.

What are FunnyFest’s credentials?
FunnyFest has extensive expertise in this arena.
FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival is Western Canada’s largest comedy event with over 1000 comedy events produced.
FunnyFest has developed over 30 professional stand up comics.
The Comedy Workshop 101 is taught by professional stand up comics that have performed in at least 1500 shows each.
These performers are the best at what they do!
Some of the presenters have headlined shows across Canada and the USA, have appeared on numerous TV and RADIO shows as comedy performers and actors
The performers have appeared at comedy and music festivals including Just for Laughs (Montreal), Vancouver Comedy Festival, Great Plains Comedy Festival and FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival
They have done countless corporate shows, as well as, difficult road gigs and had all the audiences share in the big laughs.

What types of COMEDY WORKSHOPS does FUNNYFEST offer?
FunnyFest offers 4 workshops:

  1. Stand Up COMEDY WORKSHOP 101 (crucial basics) 4 - 6 hours (with a break)
  2. Stand Up COMEDY WORKSHOP 102 (intensive and comprehensive) 2 days x 4 hours each (with a break)
  3. Business of Comedy – all the answers, procedures, techniques and methods to conduct your comedy as a business. It includes a lengthy list of do’s and don’ts
  4. Humour in the Workplace --- A groundbreaking workshop addressing what humour is and how to seamlessly weave it into the fabricate of the workplace. Humour will then help with critical thinking and create breakthroughs, which will elevate your communication with all stakeholders, such as: employees, clients and contractors

COMEDY WORKSHOP 101 & 102 will include extensive training. Here are JUST some of the KEY areas you will master:

  1. the basics
    - Development – attitude - perspective -stage presence - what is? - The decisive ways to overcome stage fright - mic technique - stage, club and business etiquette
  2. the tools
    - Universal funny – your funny world – funny is as funny does – types of funny
    -writing and writing exercises.
    -How to remove unnecessary words to get more LPMs (laughs per minute) and build a stronger set
    -how to improv on stage – how to spritz
    -timing - not using stock lines – originality
    - Brain storming
    -clean or dirty? How to do corporate (where the big $$ is)
    -shuffling your act (to be explained at the workshop)
    -divorcing yourself from old bits
    -emceeing. The spot many people and comics fear is the one spot that makes most people better presenters and comics become headliners. How to emcee is a very important aspect of being an opener, middle act or feature headline act. If you can learn to kill here, you will excel at any public speaking engagement
  3. The focus segment (is on your success)
    The intense segment! We will work together to cut and add … while you produce your presentation on the spot - your style – build your presentation with humour – safety nets – going all the way – the groove / the magic
    This will also be an interactive segment wherein you will have the opportunity to write a 5-minute presentation or shell to insert the facts or comedy routine with new bits. Your writing will be constructively reviewed so you can edit prior to presentation. As well you can have an existing presentation or act broken down, dissected and critiqued by veteran comics and your comedy peers. This outside scrutiny will give you a POV of what you are doing right and wrong to help make you a better presenter with funnier delivery
  4. The video
    This tool is worth a million words. Watch it over and over again to see what you do right and most importantly what you do wrong.

How much will all this great training cost?
The cost is nominal. What you will learn is a treasure. These tools you can use forever!

The price is only:
PLEASE CALL or EMAIL to DISCUSS
Price includes: All materials, big laughs and a video tape of show for each participant, industry referrals and Q & A. PLUS you receive MINIMUM of 10 tickets to FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival Show.

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For further information please contact:

FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival
Hotline: (403) 228-7888
Email: sponsors@funnyfest.com