Sitcom Writer’s Summer Retreat with Lucy Lumsden & Chris Head
When Lucy Lumsden (bio) left her role commissioning TV comedy for BBC and then Sky, she had an itch she wanted to scratch. She wanted to...
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Chris Head
- May 30
- 3 min
Your New & Improved Stand-up Comedy Material: Writing Inspiration & Techniques
"Amazing. Just gotta say again. The class is fricken excellent. Definitely the best stand-up class I have been to." WA* * an act who has...
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Chris Head
- Apr 22
- 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
- 2 min
My online Sitcom/ Comedy Drama courses
I now run two great online narrative comedy writing classes for sitcom and comedy drama. They have been done by people all over the UK,...
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Chris Head
- Apr 13, 2020
- 5 min
Chris Head's Stand-up Comedy Classes
I run stand-up comedy classes live in LONDON (info below!) and ONLINE. "Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that following...
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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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Chris Head
- Apr 27, 2018
- 4 min
Lesson 17: Rule Of Three, Callbacks & Anachronisms
Twenty five is a nice neat number isn’t it? It’d be a shame if it were ‘27’ lessons – hence me combining these three topics. I think I...
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Chris Head
- Mar 29, 2018
- 4 min
Lesson 16: Personification
In the last few lessons we've been exploring transpositions. Let's end this exploration on personification. Also known as...
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Chris Head
- Mar 22, 2018
- 4 min
Lesson 15: Bathos (Big/Small)
In the previous lesson we discussed transpositions. We’re going to develop this idea and look at a common comic effect that can be...
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Chris Head
- Mar 16, 2018
- 5 min
Lesson 14: Transpositions
In the previous lesson I discussed the importance of going beyond what actually happened, and going into playful speculation. In your...
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Chris Head
- Mar 10, 2018
- 7 min
Lesson 13: Questions to Spark Ideas
Comedy, and all creativity, begins with questions. What takes you into comic territory, rather than literary or dramatic territory, is...
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Chris Head
- Mar 2, 2018
- 6 min
Lesson 12: Timing
A stand-up will send me a video of their set and I will watch it, meeting them subsequently to discuss my observations on their material...
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Chris Head
- Feb 23, 2018
- 13 min
Lesson 11: Writing One-liners
HOW TO WRITE ONE-LINER JOKES How do you write one-liners? It all starts with words and phrases the comic encounters (or seeks out) in...
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