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Chris Head
- Aug 19
- 3 min
Write Inspired Comedy Sketches! (Zoom course)
Live interactive Zoom course: Join a great group and get inspiration and learn techniques for writing (and making!) TV, Social Media,...
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Chris Head
- Aug 11
- 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
- 2 min
How I Can Help with your Stand-up
I can help you in a lot of different ways with your stand-up - so many different ways in fact that I thought I'd write a blog on it so...
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Chris Head
- Jun 24
- 3 min
Sitcom/ Comedy Drama Writer’s Online Retreat with Lucy Lumsden & Chris Head
NEW DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED WHEN LUCY HAS FINISHED MAKING "RUBY SPEAKING" FOR ITV! Please email chris@chrishead.com to express interest or...
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Chris Head
- May 30
- 2 min
Writing New Stand-up Comedy Material: Tools & Inspiration (Live Zoom course)
Next start dates February 2023 (see below for full info). "Amazing. Just gotta say again. The class is fricken excellent. Definitely the...
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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
- 4 min
My online Sitcom/ Comedy Drama courses
I now run two great online narrative comedy writing classes for sitcom and comedy drama. These courses have been done by writers all over...
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Chris Head
- Apr 13, 2020
- 5 min
Chris Head's Stand-up Courses
I run stand-up comedy classes live in LONDON (next course starts in January 2023 - full info below) and in STROUD (next Stroud course...
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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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