The Stand-Up Workshop

Culver City, United States

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We don’t just encourage you, we show you exactly how to kill in your very first showcase.

Cary Odes has been teaching for over 12 years and performing for 35. He can see show you the genius inside you.

Our students love Cary’s dedication to their success and his deep understanding of how to guide them through the journey from idea to the stage. The Improv tells us that no other class showcase is consistently such high quality.

History

Established in 2011.

Cary Odes taught stand-​up since 1990, when he taught young men in prison to do stand-​up at Camp David Gonzales in Malibu. He taught stand-​up at New Roads high school in 1997 – 8.

He taught all workshops for Judy Carter’s Comedy Workshop from 2004 to her retirement in 2011. With a loyal following and a great track record, Cary opened The Stand-​Up Workshop in 2011.

Meet the Business Owner

Cary O.

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Cary Odes started his comedy career in Chicago, where he studied at Second City with improv legend Del Close. He headlined comedy clubs for over a decade, wrote jokes for shows on NBC, had a pilot developed about his time teaching stand up to gang kids in prison. While continuing to perform full time, Cary taught comedy to youth at risk as well as high school students at New Roads School.

In 2004, Cary began teaching all the classes for Judy Carter’s Comedy Workshops, which he continued until the workshops ended in 2011. That year he created The Stand-​up Workshop.

What makes his teaching different is that he combines important structure to the often unfocussed thoughts of a new comic. From there, Cary adds his ability to hear not only what a student is saying, but what they really meant to say. Cary’s gift is to illuminate the path from a student’s original thought to the hysterical revelation waiting just beneath the surface.