Using the tips, tricks and methodology from this course, you will craft your own unique comedy performance with different routines using your own comic voice:

- Mine your life and history. What is unique to you? What are
you into that most others aren’t? Do you have a unique
perspective on something? What are you passionate about?

Write down a list of:
10 things you Love
10 things you Hate
Or:
A funny News Story
An Interesting Fact
A unique interest you have
Take one of these and create Spider-diagram. To begin with don’t try
and be funny, just do a brain dump of all the associations with the
subject in hand. Then Overlay puns, gags, word associations and
Pullbacks.

(Remember to layer each line with Pull-backs, gags and extremity)

- Do your own Comedy Archetype Story several times. Put yourself as
the character then play around with other people as the character:
A: CHARACTER
B: DESIRE
C: FRUSTRATION
D: RESOLVE

EXERCISE; Write 10 things about you that are obvious & 10 things people
in the audience don’t know about you. Then look at the difference
between the two, in there are the ingredients of your comedy
character.

*Remember to take every opportunity to perform and speak in public.
The more you perform the more naturally your comic voice will
develop.

Tony Vino

Pro Comedian & performance coach

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