You But Funnier Masterclass

• Are you ready to completely own your unique comedic perpective? And to figure out what to do with it?
• Are you searching for those perfect killer stories?
• Do you feel so close to your best material, but not quite sure what's missing?
• Are you struggling with punching up, with pitching?
• Is your page to stage transformation not quite working?
• Tired of shlepping around to do sets and not getting any better?
• Looking for that comedic edge for your memoir?
• In need of a storytelling muse and a master outside eye?
  
  Then Beth Lapides' You But Funnier is for you!
  
  This is a high intensity, results oriented, wildly engaged, high vibe, masterlass with, as the LA TImes called her - 'LA's godmother of alternative comedy'.
  
  4 Saturdays
  June 8, 15, 22, 29
  12-3 PM
  $399
  Limited to 10 participants + auditors
  
  The group is usually a mix of stand-ups, authors, podcasters, screenwriters, speakers and storytellers. All ready to reach their highest comedic potential.
  
  The workshop has proven to be life-changing. Many past participants have gone on to successful careers as touring comedians, authors, TV writers, graphic novelists, podcasters, TV directors, story slam winners. etc etc. Solo shows that have come out of this workshop have gone on to be fringe festival winners.
  
  In each of the four sessions you get time on your feet to perform, read or work in dialogue with Beth - and get direct and helpful feedback. Assignments will be individually given. Beth is well known as a direct but compassionate mentor, muse and advocate for performers.
  
  "You need alt comedy swami Beth Lapides!" LA Weekly
  
  You But Funnier is Beth's signature workshop.
  
  It helps performers focus, come to a greater understanding of their own work. Many comedy workshops will help you make one short set funnier. This one will give you a way to contunue to evolve your funniest and most authentic material long after the last session has ended. In each of the 4 sessions you get tools, techniques and secrets of the trade. Beth shares insider knowledge , cracking open the comedy and creativity processes she is intimately familiar with.
  
  Beth's culled this wisdom from ...
  - her own extensive work
  - her decades of teaching, coaching, musing and mentoring
  - her work with exceptional comedic talent at her long running, genre shfting, groundbreaking, critically acclaimed show UnCabaret.
  
  Now in its 30+ year, Beth has shepharded UnCabaret projects with Comedy Central, Amazon, Comedy World Radio, audible.com and appeared on and produced 4 critically acclaimed albums.

About Beth Lapides...

UnCabaret has had long running residencies at venues including HBO Workspace, LunaPark, The Knitting Factory, M Bar, AuLac, The Skirball Cultural Center and more. Plus toured to the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Theater at The Ace, The Nimoy, and colleges and performing arts centers nationally. Currently UnCab is running monthly at El Cid.

Alex Edelman developed his hit show (B'way and Max) at UnCabaret. As did Julia Sweeney (God Said Ha!). Other guests on UnCabaret have included Kathy Griffin, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Michael Patrick King, Byron Bowers, Judy Gold, Janeane Garofalo, Scott Thompson, Maria Bamford, Carrie Fisher, Karen Kilgariff, The Sklar Brothers, Taylor Negron, Baron Vaughn, Jeff Garlin, Jennifer Coolidge, Dana Gould, Merrill Markoe, Joey Soloway, Jen Kirkman, Drew Droege, Bobcat Goldthwait and so many more of the most original voices in comedy.

Beth is the author of the critically acclaimed original audiobook So You Need To Decide. Vulture Top Comedy Books of 2022. "A potentially life changing treasure!" Variety. Her writing is included in several anthologies. Her critically acclaimed book of haiku Did I Wake You? was published by Soft Skull Press. She was featured in and on Vulture's Good One Podcast, Comedy Central, NPR's All Things Considered, Sex & The City, Will & Grace, Interview Magazine, O, Time Magazine, The LA Times, Elle Decor, Premier Magazine, LA Yoga and more.

She has a pilot in development with Emmy award winning producer Cary Brokaw/Avenue Pictures.

She's performed in countless comedy clubs including The Improv, The Comedy Store, Catch A Rising Star and The Laugh Factory.

Her most recent solo show It's A Lot was nominated for best cabaret show Palm Springs by Broadway World. She's toured her solo internationally and received several NEA's for that work.

She hosted aradio show for Comedy World Radio and her podcast, "Life & Beth" featured guests like Daniel Radcliffe, Lily Taylor, Ana Gasteyer, Willem Dafoe, Justin Willman, and more.
Beth is the creator and host of the UnCabaret spinoff show "The Other Network of UnAired Pilots," which toured to independent theaters and festivals including The Montreal Comedy Festival. It unearthed and screened mind-blowing, and previously unseen pilots by Conan O’Brien, Judd Apatow, Robert Smigel, Bob Odenkirk, Ben Stiller, Merrill Markoe and others, along with the stories of the creation and ultimate non-airing of the shows. The series was sparked by the cancellation of Beth's MTV talk show The Couch.

She's taught and lectured independently and at schools and institutions like UCLA Extension, Second City, IOWest, Actors Comedy Studio, Brown University, CSUN, SMoCA, UCLA Extension, Second City, IOWest, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Erma Bombeck Institute etc.

Beth has a BA from Brown University in Modes of Expression and her visual work was exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Library among others.