Writing Comedy for beginners course

Dear all. My writing comedy course has just begun in Hortensia Road in Chelsea, but there are places left.
It is on Monday NIghts 7pm until 9pm. Ten weeks. Do please register if interested.

More details on the link below.

Previous students of this course have included Katherine Tate, Jenny Colgan (author) Simon Blackwell (The Thick of it) Rudy Lickwood, Joe Wilkinson, Marc Lucero, Susan Murray, Angelos Epithimou - stand ups, and many many more. It's fun, its cheap(ish) - and you'll learn how to write funny.

Terms and conditions apply. No guarantee of fame/fortune or sex is promised on this course. Caution, may contain nuts.

http://www.kcc.ac.uk/humanities/literature-and-creative-writing/#c-11ELW007

Quote: Marc Blake @ April 20 2012, 9:30 AM BST

Dear all. My writing comedy course has just begun in Hortensia Road in Chelsea, but there are places left.
It is on Monday NIghts 7pm until 9pm. Ten weeks. Do please register if interested.

More details on the link below.

Previous students of this course have included Katherine Tate, Jenny Colgan (author) Simon Blackwell (The Thick of it) Rudy Lickwood, Joe Wilkinson, Marc Lucero, Susan Murray, Angelos Epithimou - stand ups, and many many more. It's fun, its cheap(ish) - and you'll learn how to write funny.

Terms and conditions apply. No guarantee of fame/fortune or sex is promised on this course. Caution, may contain nuts.

http://www.kcc.ac.uk/humanities/literature-and-creative-writing/#c-11ELW007

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Sorry to be sceptical but I'm confused why all these people would need a course for writing comedy for beginners. Especially as most of them seem to be comedy actors, not writers.

Okay, it's Kensington and Chelsea College, not a non-professional body, so it's more likely to be more correct. Probably just me being sceptical...

Mark's course is excelent (along with Dave COhen's there's at least one other tutor who really isn't the full biscuit).

But like all courses all it can do is teach the basic skills, attitudes etc. What you do next is upto you.

Quote: sootyj @ April 23 2012, 1:24 PM BST

Mark's course is excelent (along with Dave COhen's there's at least one other tutor who really isn't the full biscuit).

But like all courses all it can do is teach the basic skills, attitudes etc. What you do next is upto you.

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Not all courses are basic though, sootyj. If there was a more advanced course where all writers were brilliant writers with brilliant careers, that would some course to belong to.

(Of course it defeats itself as you'd have to be a brilliant writer with a brilliant career to get on the course...)