Writing for Late Night

 

Instructor: Dave Hanson

Join us for this exciting new workshop and try your hand at late night jokes in a simulated writers’ room! We’ll discuss the late night landscape, including writing for a show’s tone or a host’s voice.  We’ll learn about late night packets (materials required to get you hired) and what they must include.

Dave Hanson worked on Chelsea Lately for a number of seasons, working his way up from a writers assistant to receiving a producing credit.

Learn:

• The structure of late night shows
• Joke writing for monologue, desk pieces and interviews
• The unique environment of a late night writer's room
• Punching up and Pitching Jokes

BIO:

Dave Hanson worked in the writer’s room at Chelsea Lately for 150 episodes as well as contributing to Inside Amy Schumer and as a staff writer on several pilots.  Dave is a published writer, actor and comedian living in New York City.

Originally from Olympia, Washington, Dave studied Theatre and English Literature at Whittier College and trained in improv, sketch comedy and acting in both New York and Los Angeles. 

As a playwright, Dave's full length comedy Waiting for Waiting For Godot was a hit with critics and audiences alike in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. His two one act plays, The Exit Interivew and Cafe d'Automatique, were produced and published in the C-10 play festival (2013 & 2014) in New York City. Dave is also a former writer and producer for Chelsea Lately on the E! Network, Inside Sports (Versus), Beer :30 (Versus) and Gene Pool (Fox). 

 

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