Learn the art of standup comedy utilizing the TIM philosophy to finding the funny fast. Discover how to nurture true stories into a routine that both engages and entertains your audience. Our experienced instructors will teach you to construct a stage persona, performance mechanics, develop a joke, and create sets this will hit with an audience.

This will be a Digital Correspondence version of the class. Students will get one content module per week including a writing exercise to complete. There will be a weekly class session 6-8pm where students will join a video conference call to chat with their instructor and classmates about the course material and run stand up sets.

Instructed by local standup comedian Rich Gary!

Rich Gary is a Tucson based comedian who has been performing for 6 years. A naïve boy like charm and a bitterness towards college and established American paradigms are the foundations of his operations. His background in Improv supports spur of the moment riffs and rants making each show unique, intriguing and memorable. Although he produces the sketch comedy show Keep Tucson Sketchy, created The Tucson Walk On Podcast and hosts a Tucson Comedy Roast battle: Battle at the Roast Room, Stand-Up Comedy is his bread and butter. He is not gluten free. In 2018 & 2019 Rich was nominated as Tucson’s Best Comedian by Tucson Weekly (2018; 3rd, 2019; 2nd). Side note Rich has two cats.