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	<title>Comedy Courses By The Sea</title>
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	<description>Joke writing course and stand up comedy courses in Hastings (accessible from London, Brighton and South East).</description>
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		<title>The Secret of Comedy Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s the secret of good comedy writing? A perfectly attuned comic brain that can twist every new concept they come across? Natural genius? An inherent sense of being able to tap into the zeitgeist? How about something more mundane? How about, the secret to good comedy writing is just to sit down for an hour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.comedycourses.biz/2012/02/01/the-secret-of-comedy-writing/</link>
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		<title>How to deal with Hecklers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahh the heckler. The interrupter. The flow disturber. The bastard! How does the comedian respond? Get it wrong and the audience will turn like a Tory with a policy, I’ve seen experienced acts floored by just one comment from the crowd. But you can prepare for heckling and that combined with willingness to engage can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.comedycourses.biz/2011/08/18/how-to-deal-with-hecklers/</link>
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		<title>Why I use joke writing formulas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love jokes. I remember saying to a terrible act that had just done another terrible gig how much I liked one of his jokes. He said, ‘Yes, I know that one’s good, it never gets a laugh but people in the room do stop talking when I tell it!’ It’s funny how audiences can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.comedycourses.biz/2011/05/06/why-i-use-joke-writing-formulas/</link>
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		<title>Genius? It&#8217;s all about taking risks.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Christmas, like everyone else, we get out our Christmas crackers and offer them to our guests. Once pulled and snapped, the paper hat and plastic present are tossed aside and we grab for the little scrap of paper with the rubbish joke on it. Why such excitement? I’ve already admitted the joke is rubbish. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.comedycourses.biz/2011/02/23/genius-its-all-about-taking-risks/</link>
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		<title>Comedians your insecurities are a joke!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who teaches joke-writing formulae, I am often asked whether I think stand-ups need them. Surely they should write about what they know/be naturally funny/mine their own psyches for humour? And I agree. When I was an act I always used my own life as the basis of my comedy, but I always topped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.comedycourses.biz/2011/01/11/comedians-your-insecurities-are-a-joke/</link>
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		<title>More feedback from courses&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to bog the pages down with feedback so I&#8217;ve put a random selection from different comedy courses as it seems a shame to keep it to myself! They say a good teacher has a passion for their subject which, Sally obviously does.’ &#8216;You were happy to take the sessions whereever people wanted and were very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.comedycourses.biz/2008/04/01/more-feedback-from-courses-2/</link>
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