The primary aim of this one night class with Rich Talarico is to offer students a variety of tools for comedy writing in one 3-hour session. Students will learn the basics of joke writing, blackout writing, and comic devices. From there, you'll also gain insight into late night desk pieces and runners. Rich will also share firsthand experience from top writers' rooms of how to brainstorm together and pitch your ideas. Learn from one of the best in the industry responsible for ideas that have affected our cultural lexicon.

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. 

We offer improv classes and occasional sketch and stand up offerings from top local and visiting instructors. Classes take place in hear.say theater or our new training center.