Status: In a Relationship
City: Chicago
State: ILLINOIS
Country: US
Signup Date: 7/23/2005
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
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Current mood:Teachery
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
New classes start October 8th. Please let me know if I should reserve a spot for you. If I have enough interest I may start a Thursday class as well. I also do one on one classes on your own schedule. Edge Stand-up Comedy Boot Camp Classes Learn the Art and Business of Stand-Up Comedy @ The Edge Comedy Club Edge Comedy Boot Camp is a comprehensive guide to everything you will need to know in the business of stand-up comedy from the subtle nuances of networking and promoting yourself to writing and developing material. The classes are half lesson (which has been described as things that would take years to learn on your own) and half writing workshop, where the students are assigned writing exercises and get to perform them in front of the class to work out the kinks in an open forum. There is an open mic right after the class so students can test out the material they just tried in class.
There are 8 sessions total for the class, and there will be a graduation show where you will be able to perform in front of a live audience. Topics will include, The 16 Rules of Comedy, Anatomy of a Set, Reading Your Audience, Your Press Kit, Marketing Yourself, Performing as an Emcee/Feature, Getting Booked, and Your 15 Minute Set. Edge Comedy Boot Camp guarantees tuition reimbursement through bookings at Edge Comedy Shows (and other shows) across Chicagoland if you go through all the classes and are actually a bookable act. Classes are taught by Dave Odd, a 10+ year comedy veteran, road and club comic,alternative scene comic, promoter, club owner and booker. Dave has worked with Dave Chappelle, Mitch Hedberg, Todd Barry, Greg Fitzsimmons and others. He has appeared on NBC, the BBC, ABC, XM Radio and the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Radio Show. Dave has experienced the comedy business from every angle and has been known as the go to guy in Chicago for new, relocated and upstart comics for years. The next session starts Wednesday, October 8th and will run Wednesdays at 6:30 October 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, November 5th, 12th, 19th, (off the 26th for Thanksgiving), Dec 3rd, with a graduation show December 4th at The Edge Comedy Club. Classes are held at The Edge Comedy Club at The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, 777 N. Green St., Chicago, just west of downtown. Tuition is $200, if you get your tuition in by August 1st it's only $175 (you save$25). Payment arrangements can be made. Private one on one lessons are available as well.
Checks can be made out to Dave Odd Productions Entertainment Inc, 4523 N LaPorte, Chicago IL 60630.
Call Dave at 847-409-8623 or email him at edgecomedy@hotmail.com for more information or to make arrangements to start our Edge Comedy Boot Camp. Classes are held at The Edge Comedy Club at The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, 777 N. Green Street, Chicago IL 60622. Classes are Wednesdays at 6:30 until 8:00pm and the open mic starts at 8:30.
Testimonials
Here is what the first group of students had to say about the class.
The class is packed with business information that I would hate to have to figure out myself. Booking, agents, venues, promo packs - I'd rather someone tell me about it than have to experiment to find out. The class gives you that information before you even need it.
The best part of the class is the interaction with other comics. Seeing their styles, watching how they write, and hearing their thoughts on my own material was invaluable as a starting stand-up. I met some people who will go far in comedy and I'm hoping that I'll go with them.
- Adam Briner
Dave's class taught me everything I feel like I need to know about how to manage and promote myself as a comic, and from a guy who knows what he's talking about. I would recommend his class to anyone new to comedy.
- Bryce Wissel
I rather enjoyed the class. There was much commiserating and camaraderie
among us would-be comics and I found the lessons both informative and
helpful on a few different levels.
- Michael Sanchez
The Boot Camp was tough. Dave made us write jokes!?! We had to perform the first day! We had to go to Open Mics! I nearly pee'd in my pants...C'mon people, its stand up. He's got tons of experience. He was completely helpful and it's a great way to start if you're interested.
- Jonathan Jones
I really did look forward to it every Wednesday evening. I felt like the class was well suited for the person who is serious about making a living at stand-up comedy. You gave some good pointers, tricks, and inside info on the workings of stand up comedy as well as how to promote yourself and what a comic needs which I think is often neglected. It was not a class where you'd write the jokes for the students but rather gave a good environment where people's creativity could flourish and grow. I enjoyed the work shopping and the writing exercises, most enjoyable and helpful.....In spite of your smugness you're a good teacher haha. Good shit Dave. Now hire my ass. I bet you can't wait until I become famous and tell people that Mike Joyce took your comedy class, so you should get a little excited about that. Haha I'm having fun over here. - Michael Joyce
I thought your class fucking rocked.... the class we had were I got onstage with a banana was the most insightful events ever. Everyone agreed that my joke wasn't funny, but my explanation of it was.... that changed my entire out look on stand up.
I have to say, 4 months ago I was only thinking about getting back into the entertainment (My Band was the last time I did any thing in the entertainment business)in the last 4 months I have done this:
an extra on the movie the express
lead role in a comedic viral commercial for down town marketing firm.
I will be playing the lead role in a student film this coming week
i will be playing the lead role in an independent film.
I have performed stand up in front of large audiences
I am building a web site right now
I am waiting to do a call back for a real deal tv pilot (i guess it is faith based, which makes me nerves)
I am waiting to do a call back for another student film
Your class gave me the confidence, networking, and ground work for all of the things I have and will accomplish, and I would recommend your class to anyone.
- Don Phillips
Here is an excerpt from a recent interview I did when asked to describe the classes;
I do not teach people HOW to be funny, I feel like that's a sink or swim type of thing. Go to open mics, perform, get on stage, and you will quickly find out what is funny and what isn't. I can tell you how to structure funny, or edit funny, or polish funny, but not how to be funny. You either are or you aren't. What my class does is gets new and even not so new comics on the right track to becoming a real paid and even professional full time comic, and how to think like a comic. I tell you all about the business, how to promote yourself, polish up your set for bookers, read your audience, find your voice, network with other comedians, get a press kit together, challenge yourself, get better, get booked, sell merchandise, and all the little tricks and tools of the trade that would take years to figure out on your own. In every class we do creative writing exercises especially designed to help you learn specific skills you will need out there on the road. The next round starts October 8th, Wednesdays at 6:30 at The Edge Comedy Club at The Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, 777 N Green Street in downtown Chicago. Classes are 8 weeks long (we take Thanksgiving week off) and run through until December 4th with a graduation show December 5th.Next round after that starts December 10th. Classes are only $200, $175if you get tuition in by the 1st of the month that it starts. I also teach private lessons in double time for only $100 more. As you can probably tell, I'm pretty passionate about comedy, I have been performing for over 10 years, been booking shows for almost 8 years, I have performed in 18 states from Cape Canveral FL, to Bourbon Street in New Orleans, to Western North Dakota to Rhode Island and alongside some of the biggest names in comedy. So I come from a place where I have literally experienced all sides of the business from a comics standpoint and a bookers standpoint, I feel like I have a unique perspective and outlook on the business.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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