Stand-up comedy workshop with Jill Edwards, the Brighton teacher behind the Chortle Award-winning Comic Boom comedy club.
Jill Edwards is running her comedy workshops at Komedia throughout 2027, with the first session on 6 February. She's been teaching comedy in Brighton since 1994, when she moved here and set up what organisers call the original and best Brighton stand-up comedy course. In 2005 she founded the Chortle Award-winning comedy club Comic Boom at Komedia, and her courses have lived there ever since.
Over more than thirty years she's trained a long list of the UK's top comedy writers, performers and award-winning television comedians. Jimmy Carr, Romesh Ranganathan, Shaparak Khorsandi, Seann Walsh, Angela Barnes and Jack Skipper are among them. Ranganathan later put it, 'I wouldn't be a professional comic if it wasn't for Jill Edwards', and Barnes added, 'This comedy course can change your life, and I sincerely mean that.'
The classes run in an encouraging, supportive atmosphere and cover comedy writing, performance skills and how to start gigging. The skills you pick up apply to writing, presenting and public speaking as well as stand-up, so it works even if you've got no intention of stepping onto a stage. It's for ages 18 and over.
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There are several different formats to choose from across the year. The 6 February session starts at 11:00, and on 23 February there's a weekly course that runs over ten consecutive Tuesdays from 19:00. On 2 May there's a two-hour taster at 13:00, and on 5 June another session at 11:00. A five-day course runs from 14 July at 10:30, and then on 21 September there's another weekly course over ten Tuesdays starting at 19:00. All the courses take place in the Komedia Studio or Basement at 44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN. Prices are £295 or £275.
