The Course
From 'I'm funny at work' to professor of funny.
One course. Six units. It starts with 4,000 years of people falling in rivers and ends with you able to explain, teach, and repeat your own laugh mechanics.
Lessons 1 and 2 are free. History belongs to everybody.
The whole curriculum, handwritten
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Start here
Unit 1 — The History of Comedy (And Other Crimes)
Every move you're about to learn was already done — badly, brilliantly, or illegally — by someone in a toga, a tuxedo, or a Catskills dining room. We wrote the book on this. Now we're teaching it with the jokes left in.
What the course pulls together
- • The Encyclopedia — 1,000 concepts, as your textbook.
- • The Film Room — watch a great, name the move, run the drill.
- • The LOL Engine — write with the operators you just learned.
- • The Gym — daily reps, timed drills, set lab, crowd work.
- • Comedy DNA — your gaps become your next lessons.
- • Passport — stage minutes and badges as proof, not vibes.
Syllabus
Six units. Beginner to professor.
The History of Comedy (And Other Crimes)
You learn that everything you're doing was already done — badly — by someone in a toga.
- Lesson 1 — The First Joke Was Probably About Someone FallingFree
- Lesson 2 — Greeks, Togas, and the Invention of the CallbackFree
- Lesson 3 — Shakespeare Wrote Dick Jokes For Money
- Lesson 4 — Vaudeville: The Original Open Mic, But With More Tuberculosis
- Lesson 5 — Radio, TV, and the Great Laugh Track Hostage Situation
- Lesson 6 — Bricks, Clubs, Specials, and the Internet Eating Everything
See Funny
You stop walking past material like it owes you money.
- The observation notebook (and why yours is boring)
- Naming the invisible rule
- Premise pressure: what's actually weird here?
- Taste: why some true things die on stage
Write Funny
You build jokes on purpose instead of praying.
- Setup / punch architecture
- The operators and how to stack them
- Specificity, brevity, word order
- Tags: three laughs from one premise
- Add the egg: the human detail that makes it yours
Be Funny
The words survive contact with your mouth.
- Timing, pause, and the holy silence
- Act-outs and character
- Point of view and status
- Bombing without dying
Destroy The Room
You control the room, not the script.
- Crowd work as structure, not chaos
- Callbacks across a whole set
- Set architecture and pacing
- Hecklers, silence, and the second wave
Professor
You can explain why it's funny, teach it, and build a voice nobody can copy.
- Comedy theory without the beret
- Reverse-engineering the greats in the Film Room
- Your Comedy DNA, your gaps, your curriculum
- Coaching other comics (the fastest way to get better)
- Building an unmistakable persona
Membership
Cheaper than one bad night at a club.
One price, everything: all six units, the Gym, the Film Room, the LOL Engine, your personalized Comedy DNA course, and every lesson we add. The Comedy Atlas stays outside the gate — free, shareable, forever.
Annual — best value
$100per year
Two months free, which is roughly 8 open mics of gas money.
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