Workshop limited to 12 students.

Character. Persona. Perspective. POV.

These are all things many comedians discuss and debate, but what do they even mean? How do you identify your character? And, more importantly, how do you apply it to your act?

Comedian, Baron Vaughn (Comedy Central, JFL, HBO) will help you answer those questions in a specialized 2-day weekend intensive at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective.

A brief review of joke writing basics will steer into Baron’s one-of-a-kind exercises and techniques designed to help you identify your character, integrate those qualities into your material, and embed them into both your content and delivery with intention.

Through a combination of dialogue and intuitive feedback, Baron will bring you to a new understanding of how to approach your comedy that’ll feel like it was always there waiting for you to take it on vacation.

Prerequisite: You must be available both days of the workshop and have completed at least Stand-Up 1 at BCC or equivalent experience.

Workshop: Saturday, February 28th, 3:00pm-6:00pm. Sunday, March 1st, 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Class Show: Sunday, March 1st. 7:00pm. BCC Pig Pen

Where: Location will be sent to students in welcome email, class is at 137 Montrose Ave, 130 Graham Ave, or 144 Boerum Street

Teacher: Baron Vaughn

Bio:

As an actor, he's best known as “Bud”, sharing the screen with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on the longest-running hit Netflix series, Grace & Frankie. Baron lends his voice as "Tom Servo" in the recent seasons of cult-hit, Mystery Science Theater 3000. He's created and cohosted the Comedy Central showcase variety series The New Negroes with Open Mike Eagle. The show shined a light on both established and rising Black artists in comedy and music.

As a stand-up, Baron has been working for more than 20 years. He has two comedy recordings, Raised by Cable and Blaxistential Crisis, both available for streaming on all platforms. Baron's been showcased on Comedy Central's The Half Hour and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, as well as on HBO's 2 Dope Queens, Showtime's SXSW Comedy, and TBS’ Conan. He’s hosted Syfy Wire's comedy panel/game show The Great Debate (SYFY). Baron's headlining performances at major clubs and colleges throughout the US have led him to perform at renowned festivals including Just for Laughs (Montreal & Vancouver), Life Is Beautiful (Las Vegas), and the New York Comedy Festival. Together with Open Mike Eagle, Baron has taken the live version of their showcase The New Negroes on tour to numerous festivals, clubs, and theaters across the country.

Baron has punched-up shows produced by IFC and Dreamworks, was selected for the inaugural 2016 Sundance New Voices Lab, and of course, wrote on both The New Negroes and MST3K. Baron’s directorial debut, the short film "So Much To Do" featuring Toni Trucks, can be seen in the horror anthology, Scare Package, on Shudder. Baron holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University.

If this class is sold out, sign-up for the wait list here.