Comedy Coaching Sessions w/ Jeffrey Gurian

"Comedy Coaching - Do You Think You’re Funny?"

Have you ever watched a comedian and thought to yourself, “ I can do that!”  Well now you can. Jeffrey Gurian is donating 2 one hour long sessions of "Comedy Coaching" where he and you will dig into your material, presentation, and he will share the secret gems of information, only a man who has written for: Rodney Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Richard Belzer, Gilbert Gottfried, George Wallace and many more.

Jeffrey is a nationally known comedy writer, radio personality, author and comic. Why is he donating this item: "Literacy has to do with self-esteem, and confidence and if you add to someone’s self-esteem and confidence you automatically lower the crime rate, which is why I think this project is so important.  Teenagers need to feel good about themselves and achieving literacy would feel like a great accomplishment to them."

Woody Allen took the rare step of allowing an aspiring young comedy writer to meet with him backstage on Broadway, many years ago, when he was starring in “Play It Again, Sam.” Allen was impressed enough with the young writer to invite him to bring more of his work the next evening, and encouraged the young man to pursue his dream of writing comedy. That young man was Jeffrey Gurian.

Allen was the first to tell Gurian that his comedy was “very visual”, and urged him to think about adapting it to film. However it wasn’t until years later that Emmy award winning writer/producer ALAN ZWEIBEL, (Sat. Night Live, Gary Shandling, The Other Shulman), got Gurian started writing professionally. ZWEIBEL introduced him to his manager at the time, David Jonas, best known for having catapulted the late Freddie Prinze to stardom in “Chico and The Man.” RODNEY DANGERFIELD began using some of Gurian’s material on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.

One night, after his standard, “I’m all right now, but last week was rough” introduction, he opened with Gurian’s line: “Just last week, I bought one of those whirlpools for my bathtub. The first night I used it, I lost three of my best ships,” and that started the ball rolling for Gurian. Later on, he used more of Gurian’s material on his album, “No Respect”. http://www.comedymatterstv.com