Stand-up comedy classes
➤ Improve your storytelling skills
➤ Boost your confidence and charisma
➤ Short courses and graduate shows for students
Learn stand-up comedy today
The Sydney Comedy School is Australia’s best comedy institution.
Improve your stage presence, public speaking, sets, speeches and more!
Courses and classes
Most popular: Our introductory joke-writing 5-hour course, where you’ll master a wide range of joke-writing techniques.
Most in-depth: Our beginner-friendly Learn Stand-Up & Perform Course is where you’ll design your own set and perform at a Grad Show.
Taster: Interested in a taster lesson? Come to our free class, which is available for those who attend our monthly comedy show.
BONUS - if you’re interested in creating a professional talk that involves 20% humour and 80% more serious content, you may be eligible to join our Workplace Comedy Program, which is sometimes referred to as the Science Comedy Program. The sign-up form is here.
Private sessions
Interested in improving your speech, presentation, social media posts, comedy routine, and more through the power of humour?
Book a 1:1 private session and we can assist by:
Inserting jokes into your material
Speechwriting for you
Bespoke one-on-one lessons for your specific requirements
Introductory joke-writing comedy course
Our most popular course to turbocharge your storytelling and jokes.
Join our introduction to stand-up course today to improve your stage presence and story-telling skills.
We’ve packed a heap of joke-writing techniques into our course, which goes for five hours across two sessions.
Topics
➤ The anatomy of a joke and how to guarantee laughs
➤ Storytelling with greater impact and humour
➤ A large number of joke-writing formulas and activities
Timings: The course runs for 5 hours, either on a weekend as one 5-hour block (with a lunch break) or split across two nights in 2.5 hour sessions.
Learn Stand-Up & Perform
A beginner-friendly course for those who want to perform
This course goes for five weeks (four classes and a performance).
In this course you’ll:
➤ Develop your own set.
➤ Get a tonne of tailored support to improve your comedy routine.
➤ Explore your unique comedy character.
➤ Master the essentials of stand-up comedy
➤ Perform in an awesome comedy show.
This course is fantastic if you’re interested in getting on stage and giving comedy a go!
Timings: The course runs for 10 hours, split across 4 weeks (2.5 hours per session). The course includes the grad show at the end of the course.
Free* taster class
Join our free joke-writing sessions
Interested in stand-up comedy but not sure where to start?
Join our drop-in class that is held before the Sydney Stand-Up Comedy Championships in Chippendale, Sydney, each month.
*The class is free for anyone who is attending the comedy show.
➤ Meet new people
➤ Learn a joke-writing technique
➤ After the class, watch the pros at the Sydney Stand-Up Comedy Championships show.
Timings: The free class runs before the show: Sydney Stand-Up Comedy Championships.
Workplace Comedy Program
The Sydney Comedy School partners with Future Science Talks to run Australia’s only workplace comedy program.
In this program, participants will put together a 10-minute talk about your expertise that features 20% humour.
Anyone can join as long as they can give a 10-minute talk about their expertise. Previous participants have included doctors, safety specialists, lawyers, engineers, and much more.
Participation in this course may include participation at a major festival.
1:1 Comedy Class
Perfect for improving your speeches, presentations and more.
Book a session with the Director of the Sydney Comedy School, Dave Crisante, who trains thousands of people each year in comedy.
The session can be used for a range of different purposes, including improving your material, speechwriting, ghost writing, learning stand-up, and much more.
Bookings: Visit this page to turbocharge your humour today.
Private stand-up classes for all occasions!
We offer classes for individuals, workplaces, interest groups, friends, birthday parties, hens nights, libraries, festivals and more!
Get in touch with us today for more information about 1:1 sessions or private events.