Rich shares insights and writing techniques from his 20+ years in late night TV (SNL, MADtv, Key & Peele, The Tonight Show) and from having written five resident company shows for Second City in Chicago. Students will learn how to write jokes, how to write blackouts, how to write runners and desk pieces, brainstorm areas and pitch their scene ideas and how to outline a scene/story-structure. How to tell a story and how to come up with endings. Class will cover a wide variety of sketch types. Students will learn how to contribute to others’ work; a vital writer's room skill.

Class is 7pm to 10pm EST