This program provides strategies and ideas for creating comedy for devised and scripted performances. Using interviews, workshops and performance footage from leading international comedy practitioners, this resource will guide students through the entire process, from the initial stages of researching, exploring and testing ideas through to rehearsal and final performance. Specific comedy generating strategies, like games and play, rhythm, timing and surprises, crossed objectives, double acts, major/minor and creating comedy characters are all explained, with performed examples.

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 14, 2015.

Spymonkey --(2:30) -- Devising Stage -- (2:55) -- Devising and Improvisation -- (1:44) -- "Spook Show" -- (5:24) -- Comedy Techniques: Games -- (3:21) -- Rhythm, Timing, and Surprises -- (1:27) -- Fixed Points -- (1:54) -- Crossed Objectives -- (2:05) -- Double Acts -- (1:45) -- Major and Minor -- (2:07) -- Loss of Control -- (1:00) -- Creating Character -- (4:47) -- Creating Character: Malvolio -- (3:48) -- Credits: Creating Comedy -- (0:30).