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 CORPORATE TRAINING
AND COMEDY IN THE WORKPLACE
Comedy
courses, workshops and activities used as part
of a company's staff development programme can
offer a unique opportunity to motivate, inspire
and challenge in a corporate environment as part
of your company's next team building or training event.
Stand-up
comedy performance can provide your team not
only with unique team bonding experience, but
with additional skills that can be
used throughout corporate presentations, and
interaction with colleagues.
There are
many ways comedy can be used as part of your
corporate training strategy, and exact
programmes can be tailored exactly to your
requirements, we are able to be extremely
flexible with creating programmes to suit what
you wish to achieve from the sessions - however
four options that we deliver have proved
popular:
Option 1
- Corporate
Stand-up Course
Half-day, 4 to 5 hours
A four hour course
covering essentials in preparing for, writing
and performing stand-up comedy.
We break off into groups, each led by a tutor where each
participant gets to focus on creating and
refining their own routine.
Each person performs 2
minutes of stand up in front of the group at the
end of the day.
This final performance can
be to the students, in a show at the workplace,
or a show at another venue or comedy club.
 Option 2
- Comedy taster and
workshop
Half-day, 4 hours
Covering the essentials in
preparing for, writing and performing stand up.
More relaxed general chat,
no pressure on everyone to actually get up and
perform.
Five or six of the bravest
from the group act as the performers, whilst the
rest contribute, give feedback and create a
routine for the performers to do.
The best performer (as
voted for by participants and Tutors) wins an
appearance at a live professional comedy club!
Option 3
- Team-building,
workshop and general fun day
Half-day or Full Day
Less formal day of fun and
activities. Working with the comedy tutors and
an acting/drama tutor.
Participants get to choose
the activities they want to do, from the
following:
Improvisation games, Drama
games, Acting from a script, writing comedy
songs, learn to juggle, work on a stand-up
routine.
Those brave enough get to
perform in front of the group at the end of the
day!
 Option
4 - Team-building weekend
2 Days, Day 1:
Arrive, get to know each
other session with informal games and activities
for improvisation and confidence
Sessions covering the
essentials in preparing for, writing and
performing stand-up comedy - in small groups
with tutors creating 2 minutes of comedy
material, with practice sessions and feedback
from tutors and fellow students.
Improvisation games, Drama
games, Acting from a script, writing comedy
songs, learn to juggle
Work on a stand-up
routine.
Evening Comedy Show and
Quiz
 Day
2:
Deconstructing spoken and
written comedy - what makes a good comedian, how
are jokes written, writing rules, writing games.
The History of comedy -
what is the roots of stand-up comedy, comedy
videos, where do comedians fit into things in
the world today.
Revisiting the 2 minute
sets, how can these be changed and improved?
The final show - the
students perform their sets, alongside
professional comedians - prizes for the best.
Other
Options
We can also arrange a
comedy night out, your own private comedy show
or a cameraman to produce a souvenir DVD of the
day or weekend.
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Booking Information
Please email us on
admin@laughinghorse.co.uk to let us
know what you are looking at arranging.
We will get back to you to discuss full
details and the options you are looking
at, to tailor sessions specific for you
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