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Funny AF Academy

No joke, SNL hired us to write their jokes.

For comedians · Speakers · Facilitators · Design thinkers

Learn from the best.

Mini-masterclasses from the greats, a 20-part course and weekly live calls — plus a Set Builder that shapes your own hour.

Our only rule: have fun!

One membership, everything included

Most comedy courses give you videos. Membership gives you the whole building.

Everything runs on two tracks that feed each other:

Track 1 — THE BIG COURSE

The spine.

Six units from 4,000 years of comedy history to your own voice, with all 20 masters in order, 140 lessons and one progress bar. Work it in sequence and you finish able to explain, teach and repeat your own laugh mechanics.

Track 2 — Mini-masterclasses

The deep dives.

Seven modules per master, built from real clips: watch the moment, get the technique named, run the drill. Steal a single skill — Carr's one-liners, Burr's rants, Bargatze's deadpan — or take them all, folded into your course progress.

Invite-only membership. Pricing TBD.

For comedians · The Funny Lab

SET BUILDER. Your bits. Your show.

Turn a notebook full of jokes into a show: arrange your bits, see the whole set at a glance, and connect your callbacks so the running order lands.

Example set · 10 minutes

DATING AFTER 40

1 / 1 callback paid off

Running order10:00

1 · 2 min

Dating after 40

Opener

2 · 3 min

Terms & conditions

Callback setup

3 · 3 min

Mum's review

Bit

4 · 2 min

Accept all

Closer · pays off the setup

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Taught by

Two comedians. Zero theory.

Aaron Bare and Forbes Shannon kept what worked on stage and cut the rest.

Live shows · nationwide

We're launching comedy shows across the country.

Monthly at Arizona After Dark in Tempe — and we're looking for collaborators to bring the FunnyAF stage to your city.

We're looking for:Comedy clubsIndependent producersVenues & promoters

Clubs, producers and venues — we'll reply ourselves.