Turning Your Problems Into Punchlines
Judy Carter
Format: MP3 Audio Download

Judy Carter is the author of the Bible — no joke: The Comedy Bible. This book has become the guide for anyone wanting to write or perform comedy. She has coached some of today's hottest comics as well as taught comedy and storytelling techniques in Russia, China, Sweden and the UK. In this session, based on her new book, The Message of You, Judy demonstrates how to turn our most humiliating experiences into comedy gold and gives an overview of comedy principles that can help anyone, even the humor-impaired, get laughs. She will cover acting out a story, how to get an audience to react and get laughs as soon as they come onstage, and demonstrate how comedy writers can see themselves and the world they live in as a stand-up comic does — that it's all material. Take aways:

*How to get an audience to love you in 17 seconds
*Creating comedy from passion and authenticity
*Be IN your story rather than TELL your story
*Create funny authentic moments within a story