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Sketch Elective — Special Sketch Class

Saturdays 3-6pm starting Aug 07, 2010
Prerequisites: Must have previous UCBT class experience. See course description.
Cost: $200

Writing Topical Comedy with John Reynolds

This class will focus on writing the kind of topical material that is at the heart of every late-night comedy show. Writing both individually and as a group, we will attack current stories in news, politics, and celebrity with an arsenal of parody sketches, monologue jokes, desk pieces, top 10 lists and more.

Prerequisite: Completion of Sketch 201

Maximum class size is 10

Class meets at MetaTheatre in West Hollywood

John Reynolds

reynolds, john
Writer/performer, John Reynolds, is currently a staff writer for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. He has also written for such television shows as Starveillance (E! Channel), Comedy Central's Window Seats, Celebrity Deathmatch and Nick Cannon's Short Circuitz both for MTV to name a few.

John has acted in many commercials and writes and performs comedy on a regular basis at the prestigious Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Los Angeles. He's also a former member of the Harold Team Powerwalkers. His instructors have included Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Michael Delaney, Sean Conroy and Seth Morris.