The Stand-Up Comedy Workbook (2026 Edition) is for everyone, not just comics. Teachers can use this book to develop new creative writing programs in their schools, while content creators can use it to brainstorm and develop new ideas for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Budding comics and writers of all kinds can use the techniques laid out in this book to launch a new discipline or reinvigorate their creative process. By following this guide, you will learn to master brainstorming and flesh out new ideas through detailed visualization and sensory exploration. You will discover how to find patterns using the “Magic Three” technique to loop stories together and provide justification for your points. The workbook teaches you how to shape your material by shifting your presentation’s rhythm, volume, and pitch to keep an audience engaged. Finally, you will learn exactly when to economize your words to trim the fat and when to “punch up” your routine to maximize the funny.
In 2020 I was new to self publishing. Every year I have a few weeks in January and September when the gigs are a little lighter. Over the past 5 years I rushed a number of titles that were in my head. NOW I plan to go one by one and fix the typos, clean up the language and re-release every title.
My original Stand Up Comedy text book for kids and teens was too much. The Stand-Up Comedy Workbook was too little. THIS edition is just right.
Now, you can down load the entire book as a printable PDF. You can reprint the brainstorming sections over and over as needed, OR start a journal.and just use these books as a guide.
ORDER NOW AND SAVE
I’ve priced the new ebook at $10. It’s worth a lot more. IT’S 23 years of my life. While everyone is teaching content creators how to create the perfect video hooks and thumbnails, this is the path to kicking out new ideas for content daily!
AGAIN if you already have paid for my book on AMAZON, email me for a free copy!
Now booking New York, Connecticut & New Jersey events daily with our New York team. We also have teams in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Franscisco and now Tuscon too! Ask about daytime midweek discounts as well as discounts for schools and not for profits.
EMAIL NOW to get dates and rates, pick a theme, and let’s turn your next event into a killer occasion!!! We send our top comedic actors from New York City out to interact as highly suspicious characters, stage a death and then call upon all your guests to help solve the crime!
Typical Dinner Theater Show
THE ARRIVAL: As your guests arrive, our characters meet & greet, as hosts, party goers, etc.
THE DEATH: Either before, during or after sitting for dinner (depending on the catering etc) our lead actor (mob boss, owner of the mansion, etc) makes a big speech before dropping dead.
INTEROGATIONS: The entire crowd is deputized as detectives to solve the crime in teams, usually by table. Our detective (same actor playing the deceased) leads the investigation.
THE ACCUSATIONS: All is revealed and prizes are awarded for top detective teams.
Our Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Show are perfect for:
Public events at restaurants, pub, breweries, community centers etc
Corporate Team Building Events and office parties.
Birthday Parties for the big 30. 40, 50, 60
Wedding Rehearsals and Receptions: do something different for your special occassion.
We even have family friendly and teen events.
THEMES? Endless Possibilities!
The Cat’s Meow: The 1920s Speakeasy Show
The Codfather: The best Seafood Restaurant in town is a haven for organized crime!
1980s Rocker: A washed up 1980s hair band front man is trying hard to keep the magic alive!
The NOT so Guilded Age: Think House of Usher meets Romeo & Juliet set in the 1890s
Murder Mystery Mansion: we can turn any room into a crime scene for the upper crust.
1970s Disco: Morris than a fever THIS Saturday Night
Murder at the Marina:
Murder on the Green: Beware of a chip shot TO THE HEAD!
And so many more…. We can even turn the lastest pop Culture crazes into a show, but won’t lost those trade marked franchises here!
We had a blast yesterday playing, networking, having pizza… Improv bring the world together for some joy and laughter. But it’s not too late. If you missed the fun, you can still join the January Comedy Forum and for 24 hours at 1/2 price!!!!
Come join the improv community. Register before end of day Monday January 5th and pay just $50, 1/2 price for the rest of the month!
Come join the growing community of players looking for fun and self enrichment. Network with a wide variety of New Yorkers while developing invaluable skills for life at work and home.
12:30-2:30 Saturdays January 3, 17, 24, 31 ($50 to drop in a single session) at the Broadway Comedy Club, 318 West 53rd Street NYC
3pm Saturdays January 3, 17, 24 FREE TICKETS to our professional comedy shows (reg $25). Have food, drinks and join in on the interactive musical comedy improvised based on your suggestions and participation. This is a professional show akin to WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY, but there is a lot of audince interaction.
2:45-4:30 Saturday January 10th is our new monthly showcase for all of our students and colleagues to play. Share the stage with other classmates and teachers, and then enjoy improv, Sketch and Stand Up comedy by guest performer. 2nd Saturday of every month! Bonus showcase 1/31! $10 tickets for non participants.
NEW Mondays 7pm VIRTUAL WRITER’S ROOM Join us on zoom, share stand up and sketch comedy ideas, get your scripts read aloud by other guests. Check in and network, maybe play some improv as time permits.
While this deal is very limited time wise, we have been around for 20+ years and intend to be around at least a few more months… maybe another 20 years. EMAIL ME for other ways to get involved, drop by a show sometime, etc.
THE NOT SO GILDED AGE is a murder mystery clue party character game that takes inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe HOUSE OF USHER and Shakespeare ROMEO & JULIET set in 1892.
FYI… This is possibly my favorite scripts I have written. I charge $800+ to show up with printed scripts and clues, answer sheets and my new murder boards, and pens… AKA everything but the red string! We also bring prizes for top detectives OR the murder if they get away with the crime AND BEST ACTOR & BEST COSTUME awards, so encourage folks to dress up and play along!
EMAIL to book this or another one of my shows, or let me write a new show for your imagined theme! I am based in Manhattan, and weekly travel to events DC to Boston but I also have detectives now based in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Chicago and San Francisco. OR order the 20.character box / digital download and hire an actor locally anywhere in the world. We can also customize a box/pdf download for your guests list. Email for those rates!
You can order the 20 character box mailed to you anywhere USA for as little as $100. This digital download of the 20 character set is available.anywhere your internet service can reach just $50. HOWEVER FOR TODAY ONLY, I am practically giving it away for $5. Every week I am going to do a similar deal with one of my scripts, or books. Stay tuned.
WHAT’S A CLUE PARTY?
Invite your friends…
Order the box, digital download or hire one of our detectives. Invite your friends. Encourage all to dress for the theme.
As each guest arrives they receive an invitation addressed to their character and instructed to review but not to share any details until the game starts. Inside each finds their character bio, written in 1st person (they can literally read off the page if not feeling up to some improvisation), and THREE unique clues about other characters.
FYI The prefab DIY kits include 20 characters but we customize shows for 300+ guests.Up to 40 or so EVERYONE plays a character. For larger events we recommend 20 guests become the “actors” while everyone splits up into teams of detectives. Great for corporate team building.
SPEED DATING FOR SUSPECTS
Each guest is double cast as their character AND a deputized detective! After the host reads the introduction to the show, presenting the crime scene location and type of weapon used, everyone inteogates each other, collecting story and clues that lead to a single murderer. But beware of red herrings and human nature.
THE FINAL REVEAL
The show ends with everyone filling out answer sheets with their best guest for WHO DID IT, WHERE, HOW & WHY? (Murderer, Location, Weapon and Motive). If no one guests correctly we name the perp THE WINNER. Make sure folks vote for best actor and costume and give them the Award Winning Speech moment.
The NOT So Gilded Age Story…
Nearly 14 month ago, I was hired to create an original show around the theme, Gothic Garden Soiree, based on the venue selected for the event. The result is my show, The NOT So Guild Age, a multicharacter murder mystery clue party. The event was a huge success. Especially as EVERY guest committed to their roles.
The key to the Gothic aesthetic that became the backdrop of the greatest horror stories – Frankenstein, Dracula, Jeckle & Hyde, etc – is the crumbling of centuries old castles, cleaned up with lush draperies, oil lamps, candles, and lush gardens including many tropical varieties brought back to Europe and America from expeditions to Africa, Asia, Polynesia, South America, etc.
The aristocracy of the late Victorian Era lived large while the masses suffered the shadows of the industrial revolution. This is the world that gave birth to true legends like Jack the Ripper as well as Literary legends like Sherlock Holmes.
Our story starts at the engagement party for two young loves from two rival families, BOTH former titans of industry – one making their fortune off Whale Oil Lamps, the other from Beeswax Candles.
But our story takes place 10 years after Edison turned on electric lights in New York City and both families are crumbling and the aging stone palaces slowly are becoming the future crypts.
Some names will survive. We still have streets and neighborhoods and institutions named after Astor, Vanderbilt and Carnegie.
But come the turn of the century, no one will remember Beatrice Shaw (no relation) of Shaw Wicks. Today, no one mourns the passing of The Vale family, or their one time international monopoly on Whale Blubber lamps and the oil that kept the world lit for over 100 years.
Hope everyone had an amazing holiday season. Santa is official done for 2025. As we have for the past 15 years, we have shows every day this week at 3pm at the Broadway Comedy Club at 318 West 53rd Street. CLICK HERE for discount tickets to 3pm shows December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. My code is technically better than group rates, but EMAIL me for private show requests AND if you have small group request on a day we don’t currently have a show schedule, we can often add a show to the calendar!
20+ Years of Professional Comedy, Times Square NYC
The cast(s) of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH has been delivering bring the laughs since 2002, live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide. Every show features interactive skits and songs. Numerous guests are invited on stage while the entire audience is engaged in inspiring the artists with your favorite movies, books, TV shows, songs, etc. So the show is always topical, current and customized to you, today’s audience.
This is why are shows are so popular at private events – corporate parties, college campus activities, birthday parties for friends and family and even k12 schools and younger family audiences.
Now that Santa is resting, I’m back in Improv Comedy & Murder Mystery mode and I am beyond stoked for 2026. In addition to our weekly Times Square shows and classes we are branching out our public touring schedule akin to prepandemic times.
1/10 MANHATTAN ***NEW*** MONTHLY SHOWCASES 2nd Saturday for students, guest teams & Our pros getting some time to play!
1/21 7pm LONG ISLAND Murder Mystery, South Shore Craft Brewery Oceanside, NY, 21+ only MADCAPPED MYSTERIES
1/31 MANHATTAN Improv 4 Kids 1pm Bloomingdale Library W 100th Street
2/14 MANHATTAN Improv 4 Kids 1pm Washington Heights Library
2/15 LONG ISLAND 2pm Improv Comedy South Shore Craft Brewery Oceanside, NY Recommended for 12 & above
2/17 CONNECTICUT 10am Improv 4 Kids Brookfield, Ct Community Family Event
CLICK HERE to discover Trivia, Family Game Night & More. We take fun home & TV games and turn them into exciting events for family, friends and corporate team building. HIRE a professional MC Game Show Host or use our FREE web apps to run your own event or simply test your knowledge! Trivia, Family Feud, Pictionary & More!
I now have a dozen scripts ready to rock for Clue Parties and a few are available for download. Book a professional detective and we arrive with character bios, clues, murder boards and answer sheets, aka everything you need to host a KILLER event.
Walt Frasier 