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Nore Davis – “Online Standup”

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Post date September 5, 2020
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Nore is a New York comedian who has released 4 comedy albums his most recent over Zoom in the middle the quarantine called “Live from the Comedy Trap House.” We discuss creating a Zoom comedy album and techniques for performing online standup successfully, how to advance your comedy career, writing on the shoulders of our comedy forefathers, finding joy in bringing people joy, and much more including breaking down his set from Comedy Central Presents from 2019.

Check out more from Nore and his latest album on his website – https://noredavis.com

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Sarah Tollemache – “Getting Discovered”

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Post date August 29, 2020
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We discuss how to grow as a standup comedian including the importance of social media, when to move to NY/LA, and break down Sarah’s set on Comedy Central at Adam Divine’s in Hawaii. A lot of great writing and performance tips, plus some inside baseball industry info that any comic can find helpful!

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Sarah Tiana – “Roast Comedy”

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Post date August 23, 2020
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Interested in how to write Roast Comedy? So many great tips, stories, jokes, and strategies shared by Sarah from over decade of performing and writing Roast Comedy for Comedy Central.

We break down the Comedy Central Roast Battle she had with WWE wrestler turned comedian Dolph Ziggler. Plus stick around until the end to see which host Brian or Drew wins a Roast Battle judged by Sarah!

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Danny Palumbo – “Vocal Variety”

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Post date August 15, 2020
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Danny shares some great tips in how to prepare for a set and how uses a lot of voice inflection in his delivery to enhance his stage presence and delivery. We watch some of his material that is featured on his new comedy album “Good Morning Mister” that releases on August 25 is currently available for presales.

Danny is a 10 year veteran of comedy based in Los Angeles. featured on Fuse Uproarious, TruTV, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, and featured as a New Face at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. Twitter: @Palumbros

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Rik Roberts – “Storytelling”

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Post date August 8, 2020
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We talk comedy with 30-year veteran of headlining, Rik Roberts. We watch a clip from his DryBar Comedy special “Put Down the Sweet Tea” and cover so many different writing and performing techniques including using emotion, adding risk, using rhythm, and storytelling. Rik even gives us several exercises and writing prompts that we can use in our own comedy.

Rik teaches comedy and the business of comedy through his School of Laughs online classes and podcast. Learn more – https://www.schooloflaughs.com/ and find more from Rik at https://rikroberts.com/. The full DryBar Comedy special can be viewed here for free – https://www.drybarcomedy.com/specials/rik-roberts-put-down-the-sweet-tea

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Scott Dikkers – “Funny Filters”

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Post date August 1, 2020
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Join us as we talk comedy with the founding editor of The Onion and New York Times best selling author. We discuss Scott’s eleven Funny Filters of comedy writing from his “How to Write Funny” series of books, podcast, and class using examples of each from articles published in the Onion.

We also draw from examples including Monty Python, Seinfeld, Albert Brooks, Rodney Dangerfield, Chris Rock, and much more to help understand how these funny filters work so you can use them in your own comedy writing. Stick around to the end to find out what Scott’s hilarious one-word description he would have on his tombstone in our “Last Laugh” segment.