Training
Speech and Presentation Training with Humour
Are you often stuck when it comes to adding humour into your presentations? Keara works with a number of professional speakers to assist in adding effective, appropriate comedy into their regular speeches.
Aspects of the course include:
- Finding Appropriate Material
- Working the humour into the wider speech
- Effective use of Voice and Body language
- Delivery and Timing
Keara works with individual clients as well as groups – either as a one-off event or as part of a wider training schedule. She is happy to tailor the course your specific needs and the needs of the client.
Speech Writing With Humour
Do you need to give a speech at a business or social event but don’t know how to start? Or do you want to find a way to make your speech better than average, with appropriate humour and excellent linking ideas? Keara has helped many people structure their speeches in a logical order and helped them add humour and comedy appropriately.
Aspects of the course includes:
- Gathering material
- Structuring your speech
- Adding comedy effectively
- Keeping the speech on track
- Using language appropriately – the power of words
So if you need help with writing your speech for a seminar, social event or wedding, Keara will be happy to discuss your needs and tailor the training accordingly. Alternatively Keara is happy to write the speech for you; on your behalf.
Keara has been devising and leading courses in comedy skills for seven years. She offers courses in stand-up, writing and sketch comedy.
Stand-up
This is a comprehensive course of master-class workshops exploring the fundamentals of stand-up comedy. The course culminates in and end-of-term showcase performed before an invited audience with a professional emcee and an experienced headline act.
The participants, who will have evolved into fledgling comedians, will have the opportunity to demonstrate their newly gained skills and, hopefully, make people laugh! The students will be filmed and then have the opportunity to review this film at the final session.
The course will run over eight two-hour sessions, where the participants will learn a variety of comedy skills including:
- Joke-writing
- Stagecraft
- Microphone technique
- Character development
- Finding material
- Making stories funny
- Acting-out routines
- Body language
- Facial Expression
- Voice Work
- Delivery and presentation
They will also learn how to become a working comic and will visit and perform in an actual comedy club, where they will be introduced to other professionals and promoters. They will learn the craft of stand-up comedy with the opportunity to progress onto open-mic level and beyond.
Comedy Writing
Participants who do not want to pursue a career as a stand-up will be given help and advice on writing comedy for others. This course is also helpful for anyone who wishes to explore their humorous side and can be a fantastic asset in business or for actors wishing to pursue comic roles.
Sketch Comedy
Courses are also available in sketch comedy. Participants will work in small groups to come up with routines and present the sketches in character. Instead of one person telling the story, a group acts out the story in character. For sketch comedy the participants will learn all the basic fundamentals of joke writing but they will also learn how to create non-stereotypical comedy characters and how to work together in the creative process.