Every Monday, 7.15pm – 9.15pm
Course dates Monday 6 October - Mon 10 November 2025
Over six sessions this course will guide you through writing your first five minutes of material, culminating in a live comedy showcase for friends and family at the end of the course. Stand-Up Comedy for Beginners is for those who have never done stand-up before, as well as new comedians hoping to hone their five-minute act.
Our workshop sessions will help you uncover your unique comic voice, reveal the techniques, and exercises professional comedians use to generate jokes, and coach you in performance skills.
Whether you dream of being the next Kevin Hart or Katherine Ryan, want to boost your gag ratio for a best man speech, or hope to gain in confidence with public speaking – this course takes a supportive and friendly approach to the art of making people laugh.
What You Will Learn:
How to create your own material through writing exercises, improvisation, and imagination.
How to command a room and make everyone want to listen to you.
Performance skills and how to use a microphone.
Editing and structuring material.
How the industry works and how to get booked.
Every week you will also be given challenges and exercises to work on at home and will receive feedback and encouragement to gradually build a killer comedy set!
Finishing with a non-compulsory Showcase.
Classes are small so we encourage early booking.
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Course dates : Monday 6 Oct - Monday 10 Nov 2025 (6 weeks)
Showcase performance: TBC
Fees are £200, £150 (concession) for the 6 week course
To book please complete this form https://forms.office.com/e/p55SDzwtyA . Once we receive your application, it will be processed within 48 hours and an email confirmation sent with the link to pay. There are a number of payment options, please select the most appropriate on the form.
