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....

"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...

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 Monday 12th January 2026 - 9 February 2026 7pm-9pm UK time 8pm-10pm European time 11am-1pm Pacific time (PDT)...

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...

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...

Thanks to the wonders of AI, to illustrate my London stand-up coaching, here is Big Ben as a microphone. UPDATE! I ran beginners and...

Twenty-five years ago I got myself an open-spot at the venerable Bearcat comedy club in Twickenham, greater London. I was at university...

Below is my blog on compering a stand-up comedy show. But first... Stand-up Crowd Work Masterclass January 2026 LONDON Saturday 24th...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Mark, a stand-up student of mine on my intermediate new material course, asked me to say more about what he termed ‘comedy metaphors’,...

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...

In the last few lessons we've been exploring transpositions. Let's end this exploration on personification. Also known as...