A 2-day comprehensive workshop on Zoom with Q&A session at the end of each day.

The topics which will be covered are as follows.

- What do you find funny?

- What are the basic jargons used in comedy?

- How to turn simple observations to material?

- How to be brutally honest with your material with a re-write?

- How to use rule of three, recognition, puns, flip, exaggeration, distortion, misdirection, topper, saver, personification, transition and surprise in your acts?

- How to improvise when you forget your set?

- How to do justice to the persona and character you have chosen?

- How to write a rant and a roast?

- How to describe your content more vividly while being succinct?

- How to write news comedy?

- Regular Writing exercises to get out of writer's block and for getting ideas.

Facilitator:

Bindu Rao is a Banker turned comedian who has been doing comedy since 2 years and is known for her deadpan humor and dark way of thinking.