THE LONDON COMEDY COURSE
in association with
THE UK'S PREMIER COMEDY SCHOOL
HEADLINE COMEDIANS AS TUTORS
Our own purpose built training centre
Ours 24 hours a day in a classroom with glass roof and beams and full disability access, swanky loos, secure parking and bike racks, a chill out zone plus seperate writing room
Courses offered
3 hour taster sessions
2 day weekend courses with London hotel inc if required
3 week Sunday courses
6 week Monday eve courses
Beginners courses
Advanced courses
Why not come to our next showcase at
'UP THE CREEK'
Creek Road, Greenwich (opposite Cutty Sark DLR)
Tues 7th September 2010
Doors 8pm Starts 8.30pm Tickets £7 on the door
Some of our ex students now earning money as stand up comics
All our courses are registered with the following providers
There are numerous comedy courses run around the UK, so what makes us so special? Well check which of the following is important in chosing the right comedy course
1. THE TUTOR - There are numerous comedy tutors teaching stand up comedy, not all of them stand up comics! Some are drama teachers and actors, some are stand up comics who haven't actually performed for many years. Some are new comics themselves with no real experience of the circuit and some are comics still playing smaller unknown comedy clubs. Our Tutors are CURRENT HEADLINE comics who you will see listed each week playing major comedy clubs such as 'Jongleurs' and other comedy clubs with 200 to 400 person capicity. You can even come and see our tutors perform before deciding on our course. We can supply a current gig list for all our tutors. Ask other comedy courses for the same and you will discover some won't be able to provide any current gig list of their tutors (Some won't even be listed as comics anywhere). Also all our tutors hold C&G 7704 adult teaching certificates.
2. THE SHOWCASE VENUE - So you've done your course and now it's time for the showcase to invite all your friends and family. All stand up comedy courses do showcases but most in rooms above pubs or a small studio space - how many are held at one of the most famous purpose built comedy clubs in Britain, UP THE CREEK in Greenwich which as you know was the 'Comedy Club of the Year 2009'. We put together a professional showcase with leading MC's from the major circuit comedy clubs and a guest headliner each show. You have the best lighting and sound, and over 200 friends and family watching you PLUS and here is a big PLUS! our showcases attract some major comedy bookers to each show. Our courses train you from the start to play big rooms, so that when you go out a start your comedy career, the small pub venues you will be playing will be easy.
3. CLASS SIZE - We keep to 12 students per course. (Our weekend two day courses are a max of 6 students). Many other comedy courses as high as 25 students per course and there is no way individual students can get dedicated stage time each week with that many on a course. Also each student gets an extra 1 to 1 session with the tutor a few days before their final showcase. Plus we have our own classroom, ours 24/7 with wifi access, full glass roof, chill out zone and quiet room and full disability access.
4. PERFORMANCE SKILLS - This is an area often overlooked on most comedy courses which spend much of the time with stand up comedy writing skills. We give you the writing and material gathering skills early in the course and most of the classroom time is spent honing your new 5 minute set to performance standard. Most complete beginners are surprised by week 4 that they have a produced their own 5 minute set when in week one, they had no idea what they wanted to say on stage or had never been on stage before. Week 5 and 6 are mostly spend getting that set to professional comic standards and for most this is where the hard work really kicks in. In the last few weeks, the students are introduced to micro directing by the tutor where every word, movement and gesture on stage is worked out and rehearsed and improved. Hence why at our last showcase, major comedy bookers said the following:
Paul - Club Booker - UP THE CREEK 'Great night of comedy and each of them performed like a pro - amazing - you wouldn't know this was their first ever gig and how well trained to be able to play a big comedy club like this'
Katherine Webb - THE COMEDY COMPANY 'Each act had a well crafted 5 minutes and their performance skills and stagecraft was faultless. I noted some names to come and play at our comedy clubs for the new season'
Kevin Precious - BARNSTOMERS COMEDY CLUB CHAIN 'The mark has been set high with the first of these new acts and maintained throughout the night'
Mike Fox - BROMLEY & CROYDON COMEDY CLUB 'Just watching how each act handled a mic and conducted themselves on stage - you could see they had all been professionally trained'.
Maff Brown - 'OUTSIDE THE BOX' comedy club and past Chortle comedy club of the year winner 'Excellent'
Nick - 'PLUMSTEAD COMEDY CLUB' 'Both showcases I attended, the quality was so high'
STOP PRESS!
At present we have a BBC film crew following some of our classes and following the progress of our students over the next year for a BBC documentry.
What a record!
Nikki Philby has just been offered a contract as a cruise director with Celebrity Cruises. She did our first ever comedy course and was a children's nanny at the time and had never been on stage before. Since her showcase she has got accepted as an entertainmnet host at a Norfolk Holiday Centre - hardly surprising that she is doing well as she was a bundle of energy on stage during her showcase.
Jonathan Prince went for it and entered the Luton Comedy Festival New Act Competition (first gig after doing our showcase) where he made it to the final.
Liam Smith impressed the owner so much at the showcase that he got a paid gig on a Friday night at 'Up The Creek' in one of their main pro shows. Well done son, only a few months out of class.
Katie Hearsey has been on the circuit 1 month after doing the course and already has won the Cavendish Arms in Clapham New Act Comp and is now doing lots of gigs for Mirth Control, one of the major comedy club promoters.
Catherine Stevens has now been on the circuit 7 months and after being spotted at our showcase was booked by one of the countries leading comedy club bookers to do a set at Bracknell Comedy Club. This isn't that well know around the open spots and newbies on the circuit but for the professionals, this is a highly regarded weekly comedy club along with it being the UK's longest running comedy club outside London. This club doesn't often have open spots on and she was asked to do a short set in the middle section alongside some big named comics. As we said, this club doesn't usually do open spots and they kept to that policy as after the gig which went really well she was asked to invoice them as she was to be given a fee as one of the acts on that night. Well done 'Cat' - Thing is are you ever going to send the invoice or frame it and hang it on your wall.
Tony Marresese, a student on our recent Feb 2010 course has been offered a full paid gig just after the second time he performed. Not only that, he has impressed a professional comedy club booker so much, he has been asked to compare a professional Saturday night of comedy at the weekly Churchill Theatre comedy club in Bromley.
Liam Smith since finishing the course early 2010 has now secured over £500 of paid work in the four months out on the circuit. He has also won the Cavendish Arms New Act Competition a number of times and it was suggested that to give some others a chance he holds off entering for a while. This man is the one to watch, lots of interest in him from agents and main comedy club bookers.
Three of our ex students went and did a new act competition two weeks after finishing our course at a well known new act night in Clapham. 20 newer acts were competing that night some also as new as our students and some who had been going a few years, We are proud to announce that all three of our students made the final with the actual winner being one of our three ex students - not bad for their second ever gig! This is the one that since that, Liam Smith (one of ours) keeps winning.
Also Taff who has now done over 60 gigs in clubs in the few months after finishing the course has just secured his first paid gig (£100). Not bad for someone who 4 months previous did their first comedy spot. Catherine did her first open spot at 'Jongleurs' after a month finishing the course and has been asked back by the management of 'Up the Creek' to perform on their regular Friday night.
Well done to Jonny Roberts for getting to the Semi Final of the 'Laughing Horse' new act competition, we think you will go even further!
One of our tutors took some time out recently from doing comedy for a few weeks to perform at the world famous Rose Theatre Bankside in London. He has now been asked to undertake the role of 'Bottom' in a major UK tour of 'A Midsummers Night Dream' (a role often played by the jester type) which plays large scale 1200 seat theatres joining a full cast of 15 pro actors plus dancers in March and April 2010. He will still however be doing stand up gigs during this period on the nights the play isn't running and good news for the course, it isn't playing any venues on a Monday, so he can still teach comedy during this period.
Two students from the Sept 09 Course have started their own comedy club in Central London near St Pauls which saw their first show sold out days before the opening night. They had a mix of well known circuit comics plus a few ex students form our previous courses perform.
One of our students has started up a monthly comedy club in Margate and sold out in the first week with a mixture of established acts and some students from this course doing short spots.
Well done Iteph, who secured a full paid 20 minute set in July (9 months after finishing our course) at a proper London professional Satuday night comedy Club, 'The East Dulwich Tavern'.
Katie Hearsey as done 25 gigs in the first month after completing the course - this for us is a record - well done Kate.
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0207 358 8175
Many comedy courses charge hundreds of pounds - we are happy to put in large print that our Beginners Course cost only
£195
for the full six week course including the showcase at 'Up The Creek'
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