Comedy Writing with Rich Talarico - a 6-week online course
Mon, June 30, 2025 @ 6:00 PM EDT + 5 more • Multiple prices
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Third Space Improv hosts Comedy Writing with Rich Talarico - a 6-week online course.
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:
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
*Write blackouts
*Write runners and desk pieces
*Brainstorm areas and pitch their scene ideas
*Outline a scene/story-structure
*Tell a story
*Come up with endings
*Write blackouts
*Write runners and desk pieces
*Brainstorm areas and pitch their scene ideas
*Outline a scene/story-structure
*Tell a story
*Come up with endings
Class will cover a wide variety of sketch types. Students will also learn how to contribute to others’ work; a vital writers room skill.
Mondays, June 30 - August 4
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Rich is a Peabody® Award-winning writer/producer with four Emmy® and four WGA Award nominations, best known for his work on Key & Peele. Rich was responsible for K&P fave Substitute Teacher, (“…Ay-ay-Ron?”) which in 2024 was added to The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum Of American History. Rich wrote dozens of K&P faves: Racist Zombies, Karim and Jahar, Hatz, Teaching Center, Obama Greets, Black Ice, and co-wrote many more.
Other credits include: MADtv, The Tonight Show w. Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, and the critically-acclaimed, Review. An alum of Chicago’s Second City and Improv Olympic, Rich also provided punch-up work on Mean Girls and Get Out.
As an improviser, Rich teaches, coaches and performs with long-form group Dasariski, Rich played in the early casts of Chicago’s The Armando Diaz Show and co-created the shows, Close Quarters, Strap Heads and Trio. As an actor, Rich appeared on screen on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, MADtv, the feature film High Fidelity, and in A&W Root Beer’s classic TV ad, “Mr. Dumass.” Talarico’s extensive experience in the comedy industry has made him a sought-after teacher, writer and consultant. Rich is currently teaching and performing stand-up comedy around the US.
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