Comedy Screenwriting Course

Learn techniques and tricks to bring your humour to life with this Comedy Screenwriting Course!



6 x 2 hours Class size 1 to 20 guests    

  $299 (Afterpay & PayPal Pay in 4 available)

Whether you're an aspiring screenwriter or a seasoned storyteller looking to add humour to your work, this online course offers the perfect environment to hone your skills and develop your unique comedic voice.
Over six weeks, you'll learn the ins and outs of comedy screenwriting including:
  • Understand the principles of creating comic characters
  • Apply the techniques needed to create comedy character conflicts
  • Write jokes and narrative gags and create comedy stories, identifying and establishing comedy story themes
  • Develop comedy character ensembles and work with comedy character archetypes
  • Understand the different formats and challenges of writing web series, sketches, sitcoms and comedy features
  • Package and sell your specific comedy concept
The course structure of this comedy screenwriting course will follow:
Week 1: Creating comedy characters
Discover simple techniques for creating or improving your comedy characters. Ironies, exaggeration, limited perspective - everything you need to know to make your characters funny.
Week 2: Create comedy character teams
Comedy needs conflict! This class will show you techniques for combining comedy characters to maximise conflict impact. Ideal for sitcom writing, where you need the conflicts to erupt every episode!
Week 3: Comedy story structures
Comedies differ from drama stories. Discover how to apply the best Comedy storytelling techniques. So your stories start funny and stay funny.
Week 4: How to write Comedy Movies, Sitcom, Plays, Web-series, Sketch
Comedy comes in different forms. Discover the principles for building your ideas for Film, TV and the web.
Week 5: Build funny dialogue and jokes
New techniques for spicing your dialogue with humour. There are simple insights (wordplay, misinterpretations, reversals) that will get your audiences, laughing!
Week 6: Pitch your comedy ideas
You’ve done all the hard work building your comedy scripts. Now, we’ll explore the ways to sell them to the world.
Join online via Zoom and bring your ideas to life with professional comedian and screenwriter, Tim Ferguson.
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly
What to bring
  • Computer with internet connection for joining via Zoom
  • Something to take notes (optional)
Session repeats

This class series runs over 6 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.

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Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.
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