Stand-up comedy classes
➤ Short and longer courses available
➤ Graduate shows for students
➤ Improve your storytelling skills and confidence today
Learn stand-up comedy today
Learning stand-up comedy will give you newfound skills and confidence.
The Sydney Comedy School is Australia’s only institution dedicated to improving your stage presence, humour and communication techniques.
Our courses and classes have been designed by Dave Crisante - Australia’s most prolific comedy teacher. His students feature in all of the major comedy and fringe festivals around Australia, including the Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival.
We offer a short course, an in-depth course that involves a comedy performance, and free drop-in classes. Courses are held roughly once every 1-2 months. If you are a working professional and would like to feature in a major festival, you may be eligible to join the Workplace Comedy Program.
Introductory stand-up comedy course
Master the stand-up and turbocharge your storytelling.
Join our introduction to stand-up course today to improve your stage presence and story-telling skills.
We’ve packed a heap of joke-writing techniques into our course, which goes for five hours across two sessions.
Topics include:
➤ The anatomy of a joke and how to guarantee laughs
➤ Storytelling with greater impact and humour
➤ The art of timing to keep your audience entertained
Timings: The course runs for 5 hours, either on a weekend as one 5-hour block (with a lunchbreak) or split across two nights in 2.5 hour sessions.
2025 Course start dates: Jan 12, Jan 30, Mar 13, Apr 24, Jun 12, Jul 24, Oct 2, Nov 13.
In-depth course & perform
Master advanced topics & perform at the end of this longer course
Over five weeks you’ll master all of the essentials of our introductory course, plus advanced topics including:
➤ Crowdwork and the art of thinking quickly on your feet
➤ Developing a killer opener that wins over a crowd
➤ Techniques to improve your stage presence
At the end of the course, you will create a short comedy set that’s packed with laughs and perform at a grad show.
Timings: The course runs for 10 hours, split across 4 weeks (2.5 hours per session). It also includes a grad show at the end of the course.
2025 Course start dates: Jan 20, Mar 17, Apr 28, Jun 23, Aug 4, Oct 13, Nov 17.
Free taster class
Join our free joke-writing sessions
At each class you will learn a new joke-writing technique each week!
We will go through a comedy technique, which you will share with other people in the class.
➤ Meet new people
➤ Learn joke-writing techniques
➤ After the class, watch the pros at the Sydney Stand-Up Comedy Championships show.
Timings: The session runs before the show The Sydney Stand-Up Comedy Championships. It goes for 30-45 minutes.
This is held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Participants must have a ticket to attend.
Private stand-up classes for all occasions!
We offer classes for individuals, workplaces, interest groups, friends, birthday parties, hens nights, libraries, festivals and more!
Get in touch with us today for more information about 1:1 sessions or private events.
Workplace Comedy Program
We have partnered with Future Science Talks to run Australia’s only workplace comedy program where you’ll learn how to give a 10-minute talk about your expertise that features 20% humour.
Participation in this course can include automatic enrolment into a major comedy festival in your town.