Joke Writing For Beginners with Anshita Koul and Erin Crouch

This English-language workshop is aimed at people identifying as women and/or queer who have limited or no experience writing and performing stand-up comedy.

In this workshop, you will:

• explore the basics of joke writing;
• create your first written jokes;
• fine tune that material through working with others;
• learn new ways to generate fresh punchlines and time their delivery.

There will be an opportunity to perform the jokes you develop during this workshop at future open mics in Luxembourg. We will email you a list after the workshop.

About the instructors:

Erin Crouch is a US comedian based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, where she performs at and produces a monthly comedy show on a US military base. Erin performs across the EU and in the US. She was selected for the Utrecht International Comedy Festival 2022 and the Boom Chicago Comedy Festival in Amsterdam in 2021. Erin is a co-founder of Festrogen and this will be the third time she has taught joke writing for the festival.

Anshita Koul is an Indian comedian living in Berlin, Germany, from where she performs and produces. Anshita made her comedy debut when she featured on Indian TV show Queens of Comedy. Today, she performs all over Europe and was a finalist of the 2022 Funny Women contest. Anshita is a co-founder of Festrogen and this will be the third time she has taught joke writing for the festival.

This workshop is part of Festrogen, a women-centric, multi-part comedy festival hosted in Luxembourg.