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Mining Your Life for Laughter: Humor Writing Workshop With Bob Balmer

<p>Want to inject some humor into your writing? This class is designed to improve your comedic writing skills.</p>

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Mining Your Life for Laughter: Humor Writing Workshop With Bob Balmer

Mining Your Life for Laughter: Humor Writing Workshop With Bob Balmer

<p>Want to inject some humor into your writing? This class is designed to improve your comedic writing skills.</p>

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Led by humorist Bob Balmer, this course studies successful humor writers and examines what makes people laugh. You'll learn time-tested techniques for transforming odd, embarrassing, memorable, and absurd moments into humorous passages.

Through a series of exercises and prompts, students learn to mine their experiences and observations for comedic material and techniques for crafting jokes and humorous anecdotes. Students also have the opportunity to workshop their material and receive feedback from the instructor and their peers.

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  • Ages 14 and up are welcome. 

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