Listening is simultaneously something you use to help you make comedy, and something that COMEDY TEACHES YOU.
Every good comedian knows how to listen to an audience. Not to STEP ON THEIR LAUGHS. To be in dialogue. An audience can tell you if you are giving them a good set up but not paying off, or giving them a good punchline but not setting it up.
Quiet audiences can tell you things too. But you have to listen carefully, because there are many kinds of quiet audiences. The 'we’re too tired to laugh but we really like you' audience. Sometimes quiet crowds are the most appreciative after a show.
An audience will tell you they are restless. They will tell you something is funny sometimes that you did not even realize was funny.
Listen to yourself, listen in life, listen to audiences, but mostly you should listen to us. That's why we created the The Un-Cab Lab Writing & Performance Workshop.
Due to popular demand, we've scheduled a special 2-week session: Sundays, Dec. 7 & 14, 1-4pm. Learn to develop and mine your best material - and how to let the audience help you do it. The audience of your peers at the Lab is a challenging but totally supportive environment to try even your riskiest material. Only $144. Limited space - unlimited creativity. Register now.
You can also be in the audience to listen when outstanding grads perform their own inspiring experiments in personal comedy onstage:
Thursday, Nov. 13, 10pm - "The Un-Cab Lab Show", a monthly show featuring outstanding alumns and ongoing students from our workshop. Anyone who studies with us is eligible to perform - and this is quality stage time for an attentive audience alongside fellow narrative adventurers. This Thursday is a great lineup: Traci Swartz, Tom O'Keefe, Tara Igow, Richard Lucas, Sarah Taylor, Linda Bailey-Walsh Bill Brochtrup & Melanie Reno @ MBAR, 1253 N. Vine LA 90038. No cover. Reservations - 323 856 0036
Sunday, Nov 16, 7pm - "It's Criminal - getting people off & other legal fantasies, an idiosyncratic travelogue through our criminal justice system" by Murray Meyer. A repeat offender, and popular favorite at the Lab, Murray developed this show at our workshops and working privately with Greg. Check it out @ MBAR, 1253 N. Vine LA 90038. No cover. Reservations - 323 856 0036
