How I Direct Shows: My Edinburgh Fringe Stand-up Shows 2023
Here are the shows I worked on as director and dramaturge this year and I also decribe how I work on shows as a director. I directed a...
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Chris Head
- Apr 3
- 7 min
Games, Subgames and Character Games in Comedy Writing: As seen in original Monty Python scripts!
I run a comedy writing course at the British Library in London where you will see original Monty Python scripts! (See above for an...
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Chris Head
- Mar 6
- 3 min
Write Your TV Comedy Script: Course Info & How to Structure Your Script
In this blog I talk about my Write Your TV Comedy Script course and set out advice on structuring your thirty-minutes TV comedy script....
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Chris Head
- Feb 12
- 5 min
My One-to-One Zoom Consultations (on stand-up, comedy scripts, speaking, books, films, sketches)
"Chris was excellent (and very patient!) at showing me how to improve my comedy. I learnt a lot in a very short period of time. Friendly,...
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Chris Head
- Nov 22, 2022
- 2 min
Podcast! "Q&HA! The Question Tools of Comedy"
In 10 minute episodes I give you writing inspiration by giving you inspiring questions to chew over. If you know my work, you'll know...
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Chris Head
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
Stand-up Techniques: Problem-Solution
I'm doing a series of short videos on stand-up comedy techniques. This one is about telling the audience what the problem is (and getting...
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Chris Head
- Aug 11, 2022
- 2 min
How I Can Help with your Stand-up Comedy Writing
I can help you in a lot of different ways with your stand-up comedy writing - so many different ways in fact that I thought I'd write a...
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Chris Head
- Jun 24, 2022
- 4 min
Sitcom/ Comedy Drama Writer’s Zoom Retreat with Lucy Lumsden & Chris Head
October 2023 sessions are FULLY BOOKED New November dates now announced: 4 WRITERS ONLY PER GROUP November 10th 18.30-20.30 - first group...
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Chris Head
- May 30, 2022
- 4 min
Write New Stand-up Comedy Material: Tools & Inspiration (Live Zoom course)
5 x 2 hour sessions on Zoom Monday 6th November - 4th December 2023 7pm-9pm UK time 8pm-10pm European time 12pm-2pm Pacific time (PDT)...
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Chris Head
- Apr 22, 2022
- 5 min
How to Find Your Stand-up Comedy Persona
A key session in my London stand-up comedy course is where we explore your persona (and in the video above you can hear me talking about...
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Chris Head
- Sep 3, 2021
- 5 min
The Essential Tools of Sitcom/ Comedy Drama Scripts: Zoom course
"I can't speak highly enough of how positive I've found the sessions with Chris. The sessions have changed how I view comedy and have...
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Chris Head
- Apr 13, 2020
- 5 min
Chris Head's Stand-up Comedy Writing Course (London)
Next sessions Monday nights January-February 2024 at Theatre Deli, City of London. Full info below. STAND-UP COMEDY WRITING COURSE 8 x...
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Chris Head
- Jan 4, 2019
- 7 min
Lesson 25: Endings & Deaths
Twenty-five years ago I got myself an open-spot at the venerable Bearcat comedy club in Twickenham, greater London. I was at university...
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Chris Head
- Nov 29, 2018
- 6 min
Lesson 24: Compering a Night (And Being Funny While Doing It)
With Geoff Whiting, who has hosted literally thousands of shows, I run an MC course. Insights from the course with Geoff have fed into...
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Chris Head
- Nov 2, 2018
- 6 min
Lesson 23: Dealing with Heckling
Hecklers often believe that heckling is all part of the fun and that comedians welcome it and that it helps them. While there are some...
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Chris Head
- Sep 4, 2018
- 5 min
Lesson 22: Thoughts from a Newer Act and A Pro (on Material, Gigs and Shows)
For this the twenty-second lesson I thought I’d speak to a couple of working comics. To get a broad perspective I spoke to one newer act,...
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Chris Head
- Jul 5, 2018
- 4 min
Lesson 21: Writing & Improv
In the last lesson I discussed Set List, the entirely improvised stand-up night. In this lesson, I’m discussing the use of “games” in...
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Chris Head
- Jun 14, 2018
- 9 min
Lesson 20: Persona & Improv
I'd been planning a lesson on persona and inspired by a question from a reader of my blog Ronan Anderson, I have combined the topic with...
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Chris Head
- Jun 14, 2018
- 10 min
Lesson 19: Analysing Seinfeld's Cab Drivers routine
In this bumper blog we’ll see pretty much everything we’ve discussed about stand-up writing in a two-and-a-half minute Jerry Seinfeld...
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Chris Head
- Jun 9, 2018
- 5 min
Lesson 18: Comic Analogies
Mark, a stand-up student of mine on my intermediate new material course, asked me to say more about what he termed ‘comedy metaphors’,...
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