ZOOM LINK for 1/19/26 session, 7pm New York Time. Get 5 minutes each to share your work and then personal feed back from me, career tips, meet some other fun creative folks from around the world.
FREE copy of my Stand Up Comedy Workbook 2026 edition. Update, cleaned up, downloadable, printable, reusable. JUST WANT THE EBOOK? CLICK HERE!
VIDEO series so we can waste less time listening to me babble in the LIVE session 😉
With over 30 years of experience in theater, comedy, and television, Walt Frasier is the Artistic Director of Improv Theater LLC, a leading edutainment center known for its high-impact comedy shows and workshops. His extensive career includes performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Walt has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains, Netflix’s Lilyhammer, and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band, in addition to numerous commercials, industrials, and live performances worldwide.
Welcome to the webinar!
If you have NEVER done stand up comedy before, please review the introduction and STEP ONE: Brainstorm Ideas before your first session with me.If you have been around the block a few times, maybe go ahead and review full workbooks and podcast episodes below.
Start looking for LIVE open mics in your area. The more you get on stage, the quicker you learn, the sooner you get the “bad” sets out of the way and finally discover YOUR funny!
Join us Saturdays 9am-11am January 10 thru March 7. At 10am on March 7 students will perform improv games & stand up comedy routines developed over the next 8 weeks!
Improv, Sketch and Stand-Up Comedy help students discover their best selves building self-confidence, creative writing, critical thinking and public speaking. We offer weekly classes Winter, Spring and Fall, plus Summer Camps. We also have teachers at schools, camps and community centers and even private homes for in school residencies, after school programming and more. Each session starts with Improvisation, playing games that are a ton of fun while teaching valuable life skills.
These are the same games we play with corporate groups to develop better leaders, team building, sales, service etc. We also include Sketch and Stand-Up comedy. Each session ends a performance showcase of original and improvised comedy skits. The classes and workshops integrate perfectly with cultural arts, language arts and character building/guidance.
Free tickets for the whole family 3pm Saturdays, professional improv comedy by EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH!
With over 30 years of experience in theater, comedy, and television, Walt Frasier is the Artistic Director of Improv Theater LLC, a leading edutainment center known for its high-impact comedy shows and workshops. His extensive career includes performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Walt has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains, Netflix’s Lilyhammer, and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band, in addition to numerous commercials, industrials, and live performances worldwide.
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!
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.
Walt Frasier 