Comedy Writing Workshop with Joseph Limbaugh

Specialties

A focus on finding your unique writing voice and then honing your writing to better support it.

An in-​depth exploration of crafting jokes as the building blocks of comedy.

An emphasis on the balance between discovering the comedy in your writing and then clarifying and refining exactly WHAT your comedy/​sketch is about.

Learning the basics of what makes good comedy work and applying those elements to your own writing.

Developing characters that express your comedic voice.

Performance coaching and a final performance, where the ideas you developed in class are performed on stage.

History

Established in 1994.

ACME has been the comedic training ground and playground for a wide range of celebrities in the almost 25 years it has been in existence. Performers who have graced the ACME stage include Adam Corolla, Joel Mchale, Lea Thompson, Brian Cranston, Scott Thompson, Mindy Sterling, Debra Wilson, Alex Borstein, and many more.

Meet the Manager

Joseph L.

Manager

Joseph Limbaugh has over 20 years of experience in the fields of improvisational and sketch comedy. His television appearances include Curb your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, That 70’s Show, Yes Dear, and many others. He is a co-​founder of Dad’s Garage Theatre in Atlanta, where he worked as the Improv Director for 4 years before moving to Hollywood. He has performed in numerous festivals and worked extensively with Keith Johnstone, Del Close, Stan Wells, Randy Dixon, and Dan O’Connor. The main focus of his improv career has been blending the playful experimentation of Chicago style improv with the solid narrative theory of Johnstone’s work. He has developed and extended many improv forms including improvised cartoons and the soap opera format. He has worked with and directed dozens of celebrities including Debra Wilson, Jimmy Pardo, Scott Thompson, Topher Grace, Felicia Day, Alex Borstein, and Brian Cranston.