Dates: 16th November - 20th November plus showcase on November 21st.

Time: 10.30am-5pm

Duration: 5 consecutive days with a relaxed showcase for those who want to perform.

Showcase: 2-4:30pm Saturday November 21st

Location: The Bill Murray, London.

Cost: £450/£350 NHS, student and unemployment discounts available - just ask

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This course is for people who have never done stand up comedy or new comedians looking to sharpen their act. We will look at the very basics of stand up comedy, from learning how to write a simple "pull back and reveal" joke to how to apply for gigs on the London circuit.

The intensive course covers everything in our usual courses and allows a significantly larger amount of time on stage for participants. The course will cover detailed joke writing, performance and developing your stand up persona.

In the last 2 years previous alumni of Dec's course have won Britain's Got Talent, So You Think You’re Funny (with 6 getting to the semi finals), the NATYS & Chortle Student Comedian of the Year, and were finalists in Funny Women, the Musical Comedy Awards, British Comedian of The Year, BBC New Comedian of the Year, Not So New Comedian of the Year, LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year, West End New Act of the Year, Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year, Beat The Frog World Championship and The Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award. Also, 8 Beat the Gong at the Comedy Store. This could also be you in the year after you take the course!

Who is teaching?

Dec Munro is a co-founder of the Bill Murray pub (Chortle’s Best London venue 2025). He’s directed shows that have won awards at the Edinburgh Festival (Lara Ricote's which won Best Newcomer in 2022 and Sofie Hagen's in 2015) and at Leicester Comedy Festival (Stuart Goldsmith's show in 2023 which won Best Show) been turned into TV shows ("Juice" by Mawaan Rizwan for which Mawaan won the BAFTA for Male Performance in a Comedy in 2024) and been seen around the worl

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