Mustafa Saed
While we can’t perform live comedy at the moment I am indulging myself in doing some online comedy courses during lockdown to try and tighten up my writing at least.
Full disclosure: I dont get any money or sexual favours from Logan despite my best efforts.
I have just finished day 4 of Logan Murray’s 5 day comedy writing immersion which he runs quite frequently at a cost of £180.
Logan himself has been in comedy since 1984 and has numerous film, television and radio credits. His previous Alumni include Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies and Andy Osho.
There is an argument that you could get as much out of his comedy writing book. This can apply to most courses of any kind that i have done as most comedy coaches i have trained with all write books and teach courses.
For me if I invest time and money I am a lot more likely to do the exercises, and its always useful to have the person who wrote the book tell you if you are doing the exercises in the way that was intended and give you direct feedback.
That said i just finished reading the book and it really enhances the course as you would expect if studying before a lecture.
I strongly recommend it as it gives a unique insights into joke construction I have not seen elsewhere.
If you are interested you can get his book here
Logan himself is very funny and encouraging and each day is efficiently broken efficiently into three 75 to 90 minute sessions with ‘homework ‘ sometimes being timetabled into the breaks and for the next day.
Most of the other delegates had some stand up comedy experience and the level of delegates was very high compared to other stand up courses I have done.
The hilarious Garaint John doing some workshopping with the group on Zoom.
While Logan is a very entertaining teacher and there are a lot of aha moments what I really love about this course is the short writing exercises. You do a lot of these. Logan suggests 15 minutes a day in the real world and this is about the time he sets for most of the writing exercises.
Through the design of the exercises and doing a lot of them, everybody on the course was producing very funny content quickly. For someone with a job as busy as mine this is invaluable skill set.
I was also pleased at the quality of first draft material that was being produced as well as my improved confidence in writing funny material. Hopefully it will stick after the coarse ends tomorrow.
I took this coarse on my week off of work. A lot of people told me “thats not really taking a break”.
The writing exercises are sometimes challenging. But I have enjoyed doing the them and I have laughed my ass off every day. It feels like I have some more tools to help me write funnier and more frequently.
I have also got to work with other comics who I will hopefully get to do some further collaborations with.
This is an excellent course useful for anybody keen to get more laughs out of your writing
For a good time check out
The Muslim and The Redneck 