Eddie Brill Workshop!

KIDS ‘N COMEDY WORKSHOP
WITH EDDIE BRILL
WARM-UP COMEDIAN AND TALENT COORDINATOR
OF LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN

Kids ‘N Comedy is pleased to announce that
Doug Kleiman, member of our Kids ‘N Comedy staff
will conduct a 2 hour workshop with special guest Eddie Brill
at the Gotham Comedy Club at 208 W 23rd Street.

Eddie Brill is the warm-up comedian and talent coordinator of Late Show with David Letterman. He also tours frequently, performing in the US as well as England, Ireland, France, Australia, Holland and Hong Kong.

Eddie received the MAC Award for the Best Male Comedian in New York three years in a row and he has appeared in over 100 TV shows.

For the past 14 years, Mr Brill has been the gatekeeper for the Letterman show and thus has seen and worked with literally thousands of comics. We feel his insight and expertise in the field will be extraordinarily valuable to our roster of young comics.

We will structure the workshop by having 8 of our Kids ‘N Comedians perform 3-5 minutes of their material for Mr Brill and Mr Kleiman. Due to time restrictions, we cannot have all of our Kids ‘N Comedians workshop their material. However, because of Mr Brill’s eminence in the field, we are opening up this workshop for all of our kids in our program and their parents to observe and to participate in a Q & A.

Again, in the interest of time, we will be asking participants and audience of the workshop to forward to us their questions to Mr. Brill in advance of the workshop.

Please contact Jo Ann Grossman at Kids ‘N Comedy, 212-877-6115 or thekidsncomedy@aol.com to register. As there is only room for 8 participants, let us know as soon as possible.

Registration fee: $60 for workshop participants (DVD included)
$20 for audience members

WORKSHOP: Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 1 PM GREAT SUCESS

SIZE LIMITED. REGISTER EARLY

Introductory Workshops!

Try our one time workshop for kids ages 10-18. Get a taste of Kids 'N Comedy.

For the aspiring comic who likes to know what he's getting him/herself into, Kids 'n Comedy now offers 2-hour introductory workshops. Come to the club, meet the staff, hear from some teenagers who have been doing this for years, and most importantly, write/perform the first joke of your future routine! It'll be a day of jokes, clowns, and ice-breakers (okay, I lied about the clowns...) that will hopefully give you a valuable glimpse of what we do every Saturday morning! It's way better than cartoons (well, some cartoons. Not the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, of course, but that's not even on anymore.)

Hope to see you there!

This workshop will show you what we do in our 9 week series of beginner classes or summer camp.

WORKSHOPS: dates to be announced

SIZE LIMITED. REGISTER EARLY

$50 per workshop


For the seasoned performer...
Monthly Graduate Workshops!

For only the most seasoned young comedians, Kids ‘n Comedy offers monthly material workshops. Come try out new material in a supportive and friendly environment at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan, and get personal one-on-one critiques and advice from working New York stand-up comedians. Don’t worry, we’ll be nice.

Note: Workshops are only available to graduates of the Kids ‘n Comedy stand-up class.

WORKSHOPS: MARCH 4, APRIL 1, MAY 6

1–3 PM DEPENDING ON HOW MANY ATTEND. SIZE LIMITED. REGISTER EARLY

$60
 


Advanced Writers Workshop

The hardest part of stand-up comedy is staying fresh. Overusing old material is an easy trap to fall into (especially if it works), but when your material stops being exciting to you, it stops being exciting to an audience, and that isn’t fun for anybody. We know first-hand that sometimes it’s hard to find time to sit down and be hilarious. That’s why we’re offering a special Sunday afternoon writing workshop to help you learn how to generate new material on the fly, off the cuff, and on just about any topic you can imagine. With specially designed group exercises and writing games, you’ll pair up, group off, and help each other find new ways to look at old jokes, as well as learning how to put your training into practice at home.

For those who have attended the advance writers workshop: Please note that the workshop is something worth repeating as we will be doing new exercises and bringing in successful comedy writer guests.

Learn how to:
Come up with new jokes on the fly!
Write late-night jokes as a mock writer’s room!
Turn even the most boring topics into hilarious material!

Price is $80 for 4 hours, and class size is limited to 10. Lunch included.

Open only to those individuals who have previously taken part
in a Kids ‘n Comedy monthly show or workshop

When:FEBRUARY 5 @ Noon - 4 PM WRITERS WORKSHOP IN FALL


GIRLS ONLY

Comedy Writing for Not Boys. All Levels. Beginners through Advanced.

Inspired by best selling book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves", this workshop will delve into...wait, wrong class.

A group of wise and empowered women once sang "We are the Spice girls, yes indeed/ Just girl power is all we need/ We know how we got this far/ Strength and power and a Wonder Bra"...No? I'll try again.

I learned an insightful lesson from a recent episode of Gossip Girl, and that is...okay, nevermind.

Are you sick of trying to act dumb and cute, when secretly you know that you're smart and hilarious? JOIN US. Comedy can feel like a boy's club, but there are a ton of really funny ladies out there (Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes...you...), and with this Girls Only writing workshop, we will explore comedy that is specific to our gender. It'll be like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, except we won't share pants or travel anywhere. We'll mostly be sitting in a comedy club, trying to make each other laugh. So really, it won't be anything like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. You can quote me on that.

Sign up for the workshop. Embrace your sense of humor. Make a few friends. Play 1980's board-game "Mall Madness". Forget that last one (unless you own the game, in which case, bring it). Come on, girls! Let's be funny!

SUNDAY NOON UNTIL 4 PM DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED

$80 FOR 4 HOURS, LUNCH INCLUDED

SIZE LIMITED. REGISTER EARLY