Jerry

name Jerry Corley is the founder of the Stand Up Comedy Clinic, a comedy school based in North Hollywood, CA. With his experience of 25 years and counting, as a professional comedian and 8 years spent writing for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jerry is able to support and teach young comedians and students of comedy the fundamentals of joke writing and performance technique. His uncanny ability to break comedy down into a science and his talent to write jokes on any subject has helped his students develop cutting-edge comedy routines and humorous speeches which has helped them turn their study of comedy into a money-making career.

Writing & Speaking

Your Comedy is Exotic

20th January 2011
The masses love to watch movies. We watch movies to be taken to exotic places; places we’ve never seen or been to so that we may have that experience, if even for the 90 minutes that we are in the theater. It’s no different with a comedy act. Your comedy ... Read >
Writing & Speaking

No Ethics in Comedy

20th January 2011
Students often ask me if they should protect their material or if they should the worry about other comics stealing their material. I usually regurgitate a quote told to me by Jay Leno. He said, “There are no ethics in comedy. You just have to write faste... Read >
Writing & Speaking

Can You Teach Comedy?

20th January 2011
The biggest question I get in teaching humor courses is: Can comedy be taught? Many times it’s comes as an attack. The most recent one I received was from some guy in San Diego, who was of course afraid to share his name. He left messages and sent emails—... Read >
Recreation-and-Sports

Humor in Contrasting Elements

20th January 2011
It’s called a “sense" of humor for a reason. Just as human beings possess a sense of sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste, we humans also have a sense of humor in that our sense is capable of development and improved sensitivity. Also keep in mind that ... Read >