It’s the start of silly season and you are feeling funny. All this week, people are embarking on their annual comedy pilgrimage to the world famous Edinburgh Fringe. The Daily Mail has already jumped on the comedy band waggon with a nonsensical story exploring if wearing a suit or smart clothes on stage makes you funnier.
While this summer madness rages in Edinburgh and across the national press, does your mind begin to wander? Have you ever had a secret hankering to be on a stage, microphone in hand, wearing a suit (of course…) with people laughing at your hilarious stories and jokes? Standing up at a board meeting just doesn’t cut it for you any more – your quips are wasted and you crave a bigger audience and some palpable adulation? Yes? Then there’s no cure – you’ve got the comedy bug and you’ve got it bad!
This growing epidemic to perform comedy, which is not limited to young men in checked shirts btw, is fuelled by a constant stream of laughs available in big and little bites, from summer blockbusters like the Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie to hilarious and transportable pintsize comedy ‘shorts’ on your mobile phone.
If all this comedy noise is making you ‘itchy’ to perform – what's the best way to get started?
Downing a bottle of wine and grabbing the mic at the next live comedy night you go to might be a solution. Without any pre-planning this is a risky strategy and may prematurely quell your comedy ardour. Whereas there are plenty of promoters who offer ‘open spots’ to brave comedy virgins and there are plenty of great courses and workshops out there to whet your appetite without denting your dignity!
So if you have run the gauntlet of entertaining your friends at countless hen nights, are often told that ‘you should be on stage’, then your country needs you!
We have a whole programme of Funny Women Workshops this autumn tailored for beginners and more experienced performers based around stand up and improvisation across two wonderful London venues, the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End and St James Theatre in Westminster.
We will help you develop material, find your comedy persona, improvise and help you grab that mic safely! You will get helpful and friendly feedback and advice on when and where to gig. If you just want to come and join in with no specific comedy agenda, that’s fine too. Come for fun.
Read what people say about our Workshops here, and to book a date with us, click here.
Pictured top: Learn how to improvise with the Funny Women Players at the St James Theatre on Saturday 18th October (introductory) and 15th November (intermediary).
