Program Overview

Program Overview

The Even Funnier Business: Finding Humor 2 course is designed to help students grow their skills as comedy writers. This course provides access to more techniques and styles to further develop what students consider to be humorous and myriad ways to access it.

Course Details

• Course Type: Workshop
• Duration: 12 hours
• Course Fee: $425.00
• Required Books:
  • How to Add Humor to Your Novel by Lisa Wells
  • The Humor Code: A Global Search For What Makes Things Funny

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Leveraging Humor

• Learn about humor through class texts and media observations
• Class discussion on the evolution of humor
• Figure out why students are drawn to certain types of humor
• Learn more about their particular type of comedy

Lesson 2: Choosing Your Moments

• Identify not only what students want to write about but the reason for it
• Harness moments and memories rife with humor
• Humor surrounds us, so why can’t students see it?
• Avoid ideas that deviate from their subtext

Lesson 3: What’s Your Joke?

• Learn how to create and sustain a joke
• Finesse joke beats (like writing scene beats)
• Connect writing with the intended audience
• Stay focused on the story students set out to tell

Lesson 4: Accessing Your Comedy

• More on avoiding comedy cliches
• The comedy escalator
• Draft the way to funny
• Don’t slow down – warp speed ahead

Lesson 5: It’s a Funny World

• Learn by real-world examples
• Discover the importance of titles
• Create idea stages
• Figuring out humor as the main character

Lesson 6: Moving Beyond Curtain Time

• Stick with themes
• Simplicity vs complicated
• Sustaining humor
• Moving beyond the workshop

Learner Outcomes

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Define their own style of humor
• Enhance their existing comedic toolkit
• Create beats of jokes
• Determine how to leverage humor in their narrative
• Submit a longer narrative for workshop
• Apply comedic tools for a longer-term writing project after the course conclusion

Certificates

This course applies towards the following certificates:

• Creative Writing Certificate

Related Courses

• Essentials of Creative Writing
• Terrifying Short Stories
• Narrative Writing Workshop
• The Business of Creative Writing
• Advanced Revision Workshop
• Funny Business: Finding Humor
• Introduction to Screenwriting
• Poetry Workshop
• Writing Inspired By Surrealist Art, Film, and Poetry
• Writing Your Truth: Memoir