We're offering a special 2-week session of The Comedian's Way Workshop - A Creative Path for Writers, Performers and Other Creatives.

Get your creativity on track for one-person shows, standup, essays, memoir, blogs, etc. Get comfortable speaking in public, face your fear of being onstage and/or process major life changes. Learn how to tell your story for business or pleasure.

Wednesdays, Jan. 20 & 27, 7-10pm at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center, 1125 N. McCadden Place in Hollywood (1 bl. East of Highland, 1/2 block North of Santa Monica). Only $79 for both classes! Register now. (No audits at the Center, but audit class this Sunday at M-Bar, 1253 N. Vine St., 1-4pm - only $10.)

If you've been having trouble scheduling our regular Sunday classes, or need more gay in your life, take this oppotunity to work with comedy gurus Beth Lapides & Greg Miller.

More info and registration for Wednesday classes

More info about Beth & Greg and the Comedian's Way workshop

Greenlight yourself. Face your fears. Wrestle your demons. Buckle down. Buck up. Use whatever metaphor you like to get serious about your creativity. If not now, when?

SUNDAYS, JANUARY 10, 17, 24, 31, FEBRUARY 7, 21, 28 1-4pm at M-Bar, 1253 N. Vine 90038

Single classes $60
Any 2 classes $110
Any 4 classes $200

SUPER SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE - Commit to your creativity and get any 10 classes for $400 or any 30 classes for $1000 (that's just $33 each!).

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"FUNNY & MIND-EXPANDING!"
LA Weekly

Beth weaves story, home-spun philosophy and big ideas into an unforgettable evening of inspirational comedy.

BETH NOT METH!!

The LA Gay & Lesbian Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center Presents:

"100% HAPPY 88% OF THE TIME"
One night only
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 at 8 PM
The Renberg Theatre
1125 N. McCadden Place
Hollywood 90038

Net Proceeds Benefit The LA Gay and Lesbian Center's Baby Dragon Fund for Meth Counseling and Mental Health. Tickets only $20. Reservations 323-860-7300 or click here for tickets

There's still plenty of time to get your creative work on track before the end of the year. There are 2 more classes of The Comedian's Way Workshop in December. Get onstage at M-Bar in Hollywood where you can work on your shows, performance, pitches, patter - or change your patterning.

Work with comedy guru Beth Lapides and me to supercharge your creativity. Or give a really meaningful gift to a creative friend!

SUNDAYS, DECEMBER 6 & 13, JANUARY 10, 17, 24, 31, FEBRUARY 7, 21, 28 1-4pm at M-Bar, 1253 N. Vine 90038

Single classes $60
Any 2 classes $110
Any 4 classes $200

SUPER SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE - Only guaranteed until the end of 2009. Commit to your creativity and get any 10 classes for $400 or any 30 classes for $1000 (that's just $33 each!).

The Comedian's Way workshop for Writers, Performers & Other Humans is the place to develop your authentic voice and deepest material for one-person shows, personal essays, books, scripts, blogs, or just to have a better attitude about life.

There are written descriptions of the workshop on Beth's site and also here on the Un-Cabaret website, but here's a pretty coherent and entertaining video description of what exactly happens and what you can expect from the workshop.

You need stage time to get good at comic storytelling or reading your funny personal essays, but how do you get good stage time?

Since we started Un-Cabaret and our spoken word spinoff show Say the Word, many high quality shows have appeared in LA, NY and beyond. Here are a few that are really worth your time if you're developing your storytelling voice and writing. Each one has it's own taste, point of view, flavor and aesthetic so you really should take the time to check them out before just barging in and demanding stage time. (See our previous blog for suggestions on getting stage time anywhere.)

And you should really consider developing your material with me and Beth Lapides at our workshop, The Comedian's Way so when you do get your stage time you make the kind of impression you want to make.

"ABOVE & BEYOND" (The New Yorker)

Beth Lapides' Un-Cabaret pretty much launched the modern comedy storytelling movement which gave birth to Afterbirth, Mortified, Sit n Spin, The Moth, Say the Word, etc. Before that, Beth was a pretty famous performance artist who toured her solo shows all over the world. Now she returns to her roots with a brilliant new show called "100% Happy 88% of the Time".

"A BREATH OF FRESH AIR!" (Whole Life Times)

"A MASTER COMEDIENNE... SMART & FUNNY" (Los Angeles Times)

Beth always starts our workshop sessions with a rap about creative process. Here she talks about finding the right context for your work - and how you have to translate a particular piece of material when you adapt it to a different medium or context.

She couldn't do the kind of personal intimate storytelling that she wanted to do in the mainstream comedy clubs and that's why we started Un-Cabaret to begin with.

Click here for more info about The Comedian's Way workshop.

Our wildly-effective workshop, formerly known as the Un-Cab Lab, has evolved into something we now call THE COMEDIANS WAY. 

It's a place to develop your writing & performance skills.
To find yourself and your authentic voice.
To tell your story.
To develop your 7th sense - your sense of humor.
To discover your own personal organic comedy style.
To define a funnier, more compelling, more marketable point-of-view that you can use in meetings, pitches, presentations, shows, books, blogs or just to have a better attitude in life.

Follow the path walked by Julia Sweeney, Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, Laura Kightlinger, Michael Patrick King, Merrill Markoe and so many other great comedians at the Un-Cabaret. Take the 'ow' out of Now and take your own fool's journey when you learn to live The Comedian's Way with alternative comedy guru Beth Lapides and me, her partner Greg Miller.