Discover new books on Goodreads

See if your friends have read any of Steve North's books

0 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:0.0

Steve North’s Followers (12)

Steve’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (0)
did-not-finish (0)

Steve’s Friends (2)

Christopher Locke

20 books | 152 friends

Teri Wade

0 books | 24 friends

Steve North

Goodreads Author

Website

http://www.FunnyCoach.com/

Twitter

/@SteveNorthCC

Genre

Nonfiction, Humor and Comedy, Self Help

Member Since

January 2014

edit data

Steve North, the premiere comedy coach in Hollywood for more than thirty years, has coached thousands of comedy hopefuls and heads up two of the longest running standup workshops in the Los Angeles area.
He has appeared as Steve North the Comedy Coach on national television shows, at comedy festivals across the United States, in Judy Carter’s Comedy Career in a Box DVD set, and he stars in the DVD Secrets of Comedy from Comedy Time. He has also conducted many corporate seminars on comedy—both solo and with his comedy partner and wife, Barb North.
The team of Barb and Steve North has performed live standup comedy at the Comedy Store, the Improv, the Ice House, and in nightclubs all over the world—including colleges and conventions. Besides p ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Steve North questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Steve North’s books

Average rating: 4.35 · 135 ratings · 29 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Kill in Comedy 4.44 avg rating — 123 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mauria 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Стендап: 20 лучших формул by Стив Норт, Steve North (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Visualizing Decision-making Behaviours in Agent-based Autonomous Spacecraft by Steve North (Goodreads Author), Joseph F. Hennessy, NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Kill in Comedy: Find your Comedic Character, use 20 great Joke Formulas, Slay the Audience by Steve North (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love at First Ex! by Grace Fraga, Steve North (Goodreads Author) (With) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Basic Computer Games [Microcomputer Edition] by David H. Ahl -, David H. Ahl, Steve North (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Steve North…

1 post
Steve North's Blog: Steve North the Comedy Coach's Blog

Comedic Character or persona

With all comedy, writing or performing, you have nothing without your comedic character -- it is your theme -- the way Sheldon on "The Big Bang Theory" has a theme of a nerd who thinks he's cool.
Part one (of 4) of my definition of comedic character is called FLAW. There has to be something wrong with you to be funny.How to Kill in Comedy Read more of this blog post »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on April 26, 2020 12:24 • Tags: comedic-character, flaw, persona

Quotes by Steve North (?)

“RODNEY DANGERFIELD Flaw: Obnoxious Blind Spot: Thinks he’s charming Attitude: Frustrated Agenda: To convince you he’s unappreciated, getting a raw deal, and deserves respect”
― Steve North, How to Kill in Comedy

0 likes

“Comedy is an art, but it’s also a science.”
― Steve North, How to Kill in Comedy

0 likes

“After 30 years of coaching and teaching stand-up comedy to thousands, both in my workshops (longest continuous in LA) and private coachings; I finally wrote the book! It covers 1-Discovering your Comedic Character; 2- an 80-page workbook using the best joke formulas from over 25 years in my workshops: 3- How to put it all together, deal with audiences, clubs, and the biz.”
― Steve North, How to Kill in Comedy