Comedy School
Zero comedy to LOL crowd funny, in five levels.
Every level has mechanics you learn, reps you do, and evidence you improved. Nobody graduates on vibes.
Reps beat talent. Talent that does reps beats everything.
The curriculum, handwritten
see funnywrite funnybe funnyget funnier
Levels one through three are the script. Levels four and five are what happens when you don't stop.
LEVEL 01
See Funny
You stop walking past material.
- Noticing: the observation notebook
- Assumptions: naming the invisible rule
- Comic premise: what's weird about this?
- Taste: why some things land and some die
LEVEL 02
Write Funny
You can build a joke on purpose, not by luck.
- Setup / punch architecture
- The 25 operators and how to stack them
- Specificity, brevity, and word order
- Tags: getting three laughs from one premise
LEVEL 03
Be Funny
The words survive contact with your mouth.
- Timing and the pause
- Act-outs and character
- Point of view and status
- Bombing without dying
LEVEL 04
Destroy
You control the room, not the script.
- Crowd work
- Callbacks across a whole set
- Set structure and pacing
- Handling hecklers and silence
LEVEL 05
Funny Everywhere
Comedy becomes a general-purpose tool.
- Funny at work
- Funny in writing
- Funny in speeches
- Funny under pressure