Find the Funny
The Worst Thing That Happens Is You Bomb. The Best Thing Is You Don't.
Find out what happens when you stop holding back.
One workshop available: Wednesday nights, 6:30PM, starting May 6 to June 3; showcase Sunday, June 7.
Not a comedy class, per se.
An encounter with yourself.
Standup comedy is the most exposed you can be. It's just you, a microphone, and a room full of people. The only material you have is your actual life, your actual perspective, your actual voice.
That's what makes it one of the most powerful things you can do for your confidence, your presence, and your ability to connect with any room you walk into.
For six weeks, Dexter guides you from first ideas to a live performance on the stage at the Centre For Talking Arts. By week six, you'll have written and performed a real set — filmed on CFTA's multi-camera system — in front of a real audience.
What shifts when people go through this
Real words from real transformations.
You don't have to be funny.
You have to be willing.
- →First-timers who've always been curious about standup but never had a safe place to try
- →People who are funny with their friends and want to find out if they can do it in front of strangers
- →Anyone who wants to get more comfortable on stage, on camera, or in front of a room
- →Creatives, professionals, and entrepreneurs who know their presence matters and want to sharpen it in the most challenging environment possible
Six weeks from first idea
to live performance.
Finding Your Voice
What's actually funny about your life, and why your specific perspective is the only material you need. Exercises to unlock your comedic point of view.
How a Joke Works
Structure, setup, and why timing is everything. You'll learn the anatomy of a bit and start building your first real material.
Writing Your Set
From raw ideas to actual material. Workshop your bits with the group, find what lands, cut what doesn't.
First Run-Throughs
You perform in front of the group for the first time. Real feedback, real presence work, and the first taste of what it feels like to hold a room.
Polish & Pressure
Tighten, time, and handle the unexpected. Final refinements on your set with showcase preparation and confidence work.
Live Showcase ★
A real audience. A real stage. Your real set, performed live at the Centre For Talking Arts and filmed on CFTA's multi-camera system. You leave with your footage.
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Five Coached Sessions
3.5 hours per session, one night per week for six weeks. Small group of 12 maximum for genuine individual attention.
Writing Support
Exercises, prompts, and group feedback to help you find your material and shape it into a real set.
Live Showcase
A real performance for a real audience on the professional stage at the Centre For Talking Arts, Hamilton.
Your Footage
Professional multi-camera recording of your showcase performance. Yours to keep — a record of the moment you showed up.
Investment
Includes all five sessions, workshop materials, live showcase, and your multi-camera performance footage.
Spots are limited to 12 students.
Six weeks from now,
you could be that person.
The one who walked to the mic. Said the thing. Made the room laugh. Watched themselves on camera and thought — yeah, that's me.
One workshop available: Wednesday nights, 6:30PM, starting May 6 to June 3; showcase Sunday, June 7.
12 spots maximum. Future workshops announced via The Unmuted Letter. Subscribe to be first to know.
This workshop is not for everyone.
That's not a disclaimer, it's a courtesy. This work asks something real of you, and it only works if you're genuinely ready to show up for it.
- ✕People looking for a passive learning experience. You will be on your feet, on stage, and in front of people every session.
- ✕Those who are not open to honest, direct feedback from Dexter and the group
- ✕Anyone unwilling to be seen looking uncertain, awkward, or unpolished. That's part of the process.
- ✕People seeking a purely technical comedy writing course. This is as much about presence and expression as it is about jokes.
- ✕Those who cannot commit to attending all six sessions. The group builds together and consistent presence matters.
Questions & Answers
Refund Policy
"Important things you write down,
the most important you don't."
Locally serving the
Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area
