Stand Up Comedy Workshop

Date: Saturday, January 18, 1pm-4pm

Crowd Work. 

You can love it or hate it, but the general public has spoken; they love it! Nothing grows followers more or guarantees views on social media like a killer crowd work clip. This one-day, three-hour workshop combines instruction, videos, and improv exercises to successfully demonstrate the fundamental tools required to riff with an audience. 

Joe Klocek is one of the best stand-up comics in the greater Bay Area and is known for his crowd work. Fast, irreverent, and witty, Joe can show you tricks and tips anyone can make their own to go beyond the simple, what do you do for a living, to find amazing moments the crowd knows are unique. That is what crowd work is about; letting the audience know that tonight's show is theirs.

If you have tried working the crowd or want to find new tools to talk to the audience, this is the perfect workshop. If you want to add more interactions between yourself and the crowd, this is the class. If you are scared to try crowd work and avoid it...this could still be a great class for you.

Please Note: There is NO paid audience at this event. This is a classroom/workshop environment to discuss the tips and tricks most stand-up comics use to work the crowd. We cannot create an artificial experience to try these ideas out in class. That will be up to you at shows.

About your instructor:

Joe currently runs two monthly shows in San Francisco. At Cobbs Comedy Club, his game show, “Get It!?” It is becoming the next big thing. At The Punch Line, Joe Klocek & Friends is his chance to show off new talent to audiences. 

Joe had a two-month "comic in residency" at the first comedy club in Shanghai, China.

Joe has been featured on NPR's, "Snap Judgement" and has also appeared on Comedy Centrals, "Live at Gotham" and NBC's, "Last Comic Standing" and was a commentator for the Emmy award-winning documentary, "A Bridge so Far"

Joe has also been a runner-up in the "San Francisco International Comedy Competition" and the "Seattle Comedy Competition." 

Voted "Best Comic" in the 2011 SF Weekly Readers Poll.