29 October 2023

Preparing stand-up comedy acts on social issues

In the afternoon of the 4th day of our training course “Comedy as a Tool – Enhancing Youth Engagement through Humor” everyone returned to their groups and collectively learned about some different templates that are commonly used in creating a good joke. Then by following these directions we created comedy acts according to our premises…

Learning about principles of stand-up comedy and elements of joke structure

We started Day 4 of our training course with 2 energizers to loosen up and be ready for the day. Then we started with a simple exercise of debunking fears and stigmas of doing stand-up comedy and delivering jokes. By writing 3 fears of ours and then expanding on one of our fears to make…