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| Title: | Comedy Writing with Rich Talarico! | | Date: | 1/11/2026 (Sunday) | | Address: | 2292 Mayport Rd. #35, Jacksonville, FL, United States, Florida 32233 | | Location: | Jacksonville, FL | | Hours: | Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:00PM 3:00PM EST | | Cost/Cover: | See Details | | Contact Info: | See Details |
| Details: | Sundays 12pm-3pm Jan 4 - Feb 1 @ First Coast Comedy
Peabody Award winning and 4-time Emmy nominated writer and producer, Rich shares insights from working 15+ years in late night TV (SNL, MADtv, Key Peele, The Tonight Show) and from his experiences having co-written five resident company shows for The Second City in Chicago. This class is open to beginner and intermediate writers. Students will learn how to write jokes, blackouts, scenes and a variety of comedy devices and brainstorming techniques as well as proper page formatting, so they can start to build a cache of comedy material. Students will also learn how to contribute to others ideas and pitches, a valuable writer's room skill.
About the Instructor:
Rich is a Peabody Award-winning writer\/producer with four Emmy and four WGA Award nominations, best known for his work on Comedy Centrals Key Peele. He wrote Substitute Teacher (Ay-ay-Ron?), which in 2024, was added to The Smithsonian Institutions National Museum Of American History. Rich also wrote Racist Zombies, Karim and Jahar, Hatz, Teaching Center, Obama Greets, Black Ice, and many more. Other TV credits include: MADtv, The Tonight Show w. Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live, HBOs The Sketch Pad, and Comedy Centrals critically-acclaimed Review. An alum of Chicagos The Second City and Improv Olympic, hes also provided punch-up work on the films Mean Girls and Get Out. Richs latest screenplay The Widow Daredevil was an Official Selection of the 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival.
Rich took his first improv class from Stephen Colbert at Chicagos The Second City in 1992. He went on to tour with SCs National Touring Company and later co-created five original sketch comedy revues with SCs Etc., and Main Stage Companies. As an actor, Rich has appeared on screen on Late Night with Conan OBrien, MADtv, the feature film High Fidelity, and in AW Root Beers classic TV ad, Mr. Dumass. Talar |
| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Show | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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