Describe your thought processes or mental health using a comic analogy In my Zoom stand-up class recently, everyone got to try out describing their thought processes or mental health using comic analogies. I made a video discussing this where I use a couple of the clips we looked at in the class. In this video, I talk about how you can use analogies in your stand-up for your thought processes and mental health. In my two examples, Rebecca O'Neal uses a gentrification analogy

My daughter is graduating from secondary school in the UK and has been asked to write a quote for her yearbook. Firstly, I didn't realise...

Boss, striver and fool characters - here, in the comedy drama I just made up (okay ripped off from Sharon Horgan), entitled "3 Sisters" ,...

Lucy speaking at the Royal Television Society I am delighted to be run a unique (and uniquely authoritative) course for small groups of 4...

Here's what I offer as a unique speaking coach, live and on Zoom. A Zoom speaking session! My speaking training is unusual because it...

Here I am watching a writer/ performer ready to give feedback and notes after the show! Working with a director as a stand-up comedian,...

For beginners and intermediate level, receive highly practical and inspiring online coaching via Zoom. STAND-UP IMPROVERS SESSION (See...

Here I offer a model to help you get a strong, funny dynamic between the central characters in your sitcom or comedy drama script. The relationships between your characters is absolutely central to your sitcom or comedy drama script. Get the dynamic between your central characters right and they will naturally be an engine for comedic situations and stories. There are many models of comedy characters that you can draw on, and I have one of my own to offer. I’ve used it for ye

WRITE YOUR TV COMEDY SCRIPT Next sessions: 17th June - 15th July 2026 (5 x Wednesday nights) 7pm-9pm UK time/ 8pm-10pm European time/ 11am-1pm Pacific time (PDT)/ 2pm-4pm Eastern time (EDT) BOOK YOUR PLACE This is one of my most popular blogs on comedy scriptwriting. So I have decided to update it with more detail and three example scripts you can look at. Read on for the new and improved version! As a writing coach and mentor, I read a lot of thirty-minute TV comedy scripts

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...

I run a comedy writing course at the British Library in London where you will see original Monty Python scripts! (See above for an...

5 Week Guided Process to Write Your TV Comedy Script "This is the best comedy writing course I've done. It was organised, incredibly thorough and well designed. I managed to complete my first draft of my sitcom in 5 weeks which I didn’t think was possible! Chris’ feedback was also very positive, encouraging and specific. I absolutely loved this course and I got a lot of value out of it. I highly recommend it!" Alya Soliman In this blog I talk about my Write Your TV Comedy Scr

"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,...

They say a test of a podcast is if get to 100 episodes... well, I did 3... So yes I fell 97 short but here are the 3 inspiring episodes!...

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 laughs there) but THEN setting out a surprising, absurd or counter-intuitive solution. It's this second step that can get the biggest laughs but a lot of acts only do the first part - the problem. In my video, see the technique in action with clips from Emily Heller and Joey Medina. In stand-up it's very common to talk about a PROBLEM - or

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...

About Lucy Lumsden: Lucy Lumsden is a producer and director. She runs her own production company Yellow Door Productions based in the UK...

5 x 2 hour sessions on Zoom Tuesday 14th April 2026 - 12th May 2026 7pm-9pm UK time 8pm-10pm European time 11am-1pm Pacific time (PDT) 2pm-4pm Eastern time (EDT) £135 (repeat fee £125) (see below for full info) BOOK A PLACE "Amazing. Just gotta say again. The class is fricken excellent. Definitely the best stand-up class I have been to." MS* * an act who has been going for 10 years "The highlight of my week! Trying out a different technique each week is really helpful and Chr

I'm running a two part workshop online for gigging comics to explore their persona. 7pm-9pm UK time, Monday 23rd February & 2nd March 2026 , £70 (On Zoom) BOOK YOUR PLACE 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 persona in the class, where I discuss it from the comedy booker's point of view). Finding this persona is key. It’s your on-stage character; a simplified, exaggerated versi

The course has spawned a book! The Complete Comedy Script Toolkit "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 given me real insight into how to better turn ideas and funny thoughts into character driven narrative comedy. It's also great to learn remotely and know I can ask questions through the Trello board and rewatch sessions. If you've ever wondered should I give it a go the ans