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Greg Dean’s Stand-Up Comedy Workshop

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About Me

“This MySpace Page is strictly dedicated to comedy. We only accept Friends who are comedians, those interested in becoming comedians, comedy clubs, comedy organizations, comedy agents and managers, comedy events and festivals and comedy classes (which do not conflict with this workshop.) By being selective, our Friends will not receive any message from product venders, garage bands or women desperate to marry for a Green Card. We’re all about the comedy.”

Greg Dean - The Dean of Comedy

Greg Dean has the longest running stand-up comedy school in America, since 1982. He has trained many American comedy stars including Whoopi Goldberg, Andy Garcia and Elizabeth Payne (Ugly Betty actress) and hundreds of working comedians.
Dean made his living at comedy for over fifteen years, having gigged with Bill Hicks, Robin Williams to name a few and has appeared on Saturday Night Live. He now teaches full time in Southern California as well as internattionally.

Step By Step to Stand-Up Comedy


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Foreword By the Great Steve Allen


How-to books about comedy are a dime a dozen. I’ve written two of them myself. But some are better than others-the present volume, for example, by Greg Dean
A good many of point on which Dean offers instructions are lessons I had to learn the hard way. I wish books of this sort had been available in those days.
Most of us would never dream of offering professional advice to a TV repairman, a brain surgeon, or a defensive lineman for e the Chicago Bears, but we all apparently view ourselves as qualified to offer advice to Eddie Murphy, Jackie Mason or Dennis Miller.
Greg Dean, by way of contrast, know the territory he’s writing about and provides a wealth of nuts-and-bolts advice about the kinds of stories that audiences will interpret as funny. --Steve Allen
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My Blog

Looking Forward to UK London Seminars

After our successful seminar series in London in 07, I and my wife Gayla Johnson-Dean are headed back to London. Once again, we'll be holding seminars at the FYM-FYG-BAR aka Backyard Comedy Club. For ...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:34:00 PST

Be Yourself, Not Your Concept of a Comic

I have been teaching stand-up comedy for more than twenty-five years. One of the recurring challenges comics without training continually foster is doing their concept of how they think a comic should...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:57:00 PST

Week End Seminar - Thinking Funny!

My Performance Power Mastery Seminar was a great deal of fun. I was able to teach many comedy techniques I have not had an opportunity to teach in a very long time. The focus was on the Human Mind and...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:30:00 PST

Material Improvement and Fixes

Sorry, it's been a while since I've written. I did the weekend seminar called Performance Power Mastery. It was a great deal of fun for me and those who attended. I was able to teach more advanced ski...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:45:00 PST

Collaboration - You’re Not In It Alone!

So many comics feel as if they must do everything themselves or it's not real. That's fine, but very restricting. All great comics have writers, so I believe one of the most important skills for comic...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:44:00 PST

Starting With a Rant

I've begun a new session of my advanced workshops and it never cease to amaze me how comics can generate such a large amount of material as well as premises from a Rant. Just so you know, a Rant is sp...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:53:00 PST

The Absolute Necessity for Comedy Technique!

Great stand-up comedians have mastered two very important realms that make them funny. This first is The Craft of Comedy, which consists of all the techniques and skills of writing, preparing and rewr...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:36:00 PST

Dont Let Your Dream Slip Away

Here we are at another cross roads of life choices...2008. Once again, I've heard all the excuses why people say they can't take my workshop, even though doing stand-up comedy is their personal dream....
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:12:00 PST

Lets all promote stand-up comedy!

As I play with this Myspace Page I realize that we all have a great potential to promote stand-up comedy by just spending a little bit of time every day. Here are a few of my suggestions to promote yo...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:19:00 PST

Going to London UK

On June 28th, 07 my wife Gayla Johnson-Dean and I are going to London UK for a week to check out the comedy scene. We have made some very nice contacts. Currently, Gayla has booked herself into severa...
Posted by Greg Deans Stand-Up Comedy Workshop on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:01:00 PST