Evening Online Write Sketches The Suck Class with Tom Booker
7:00 pm to 9:30 pm on Mondays
February 2nd to March 9th

$225

Write Sketches The Suck Class
Let's Write Bad Scripts So We Can Turn Them Into Great Scripts!

Okay, here’s the deal. There have been many, many times in the more than two decades that I’ve been teaching this class when students are too afraid to write because they're trying to write the perfect first draft. The pressure kicks in, the fear takes over, and they stop having fun trying to create comedy.

What if you did the opposite?

What if, instead of trying to write the perfect comedy sketch, you set out to write a bad one? What if your only goal was to write the worst script possible?

First off, you will have more fun writing the script. And the script, even though you tried to write a bad script, will most likely be really good because you had fun writing it. And when you're having fun is when you'll do your best work! And most importantly, you will have completed a first draft of a script! And that's the starting point for any great script!

More importantly, you’ll finish a script. You’ll have a complete first draft. And that’s the hardest and most important step in writing any great comedy sketch.

The secret to writing is that "all good writing comes from bad writing." So let's do what we can to have fun as we get the bad writing out of the way!

This class is built around a simple truth: all good writing comes from bad writing. So let’s get the bad writing out of the way, have some fun, and get you writing — fast.

In this class, you will learn how to take your funny ideas, goofy characters, and wild “what ifs” and turn them into sketch comedy that is entertaining, thought provoking, and genuinely funny.

Through a series of exercises, demonstrations, and weekly homework assignments developed by Tom Booker during his seven years teaching sketch writing at The Second City Training Center, you will learn the sketch forms used most often by professional writers and performers. You will practice finding and sharpening your point of view, heightening ideas, and writing clear, playable sketches.

By the end of this six-week course, each student will have five completed comedic sketches and a stronger understanding of how to generate ideas, shape them into finished pieces, and move on to the next one with confidence.

No previous writing experience is required. All you need is curiosity, a sense of play, and a willingness to learn.