“Once in ‘06 Ross Bennett told me, after I bombed very hard, ‘you’re funny...but these people have no time for your cleverness. Get to the point.” That was huge. That rewired everything. Thank you Ross.”
— JOHN MULANEY
Good One Podcast 5/21/18
It’s not everyday that you have the opportunity to work with an artist. Ross is a master of his craft. When I work with him, he doesn’t try to substitute himself for you, he progressively teaches you different techniques to improve what you want to say. He has a genuine and sincere interest in what you write, he doesn’t try to steer you on another path, he just helps you to improve your set. Working with him is like working with a magician who, by changing a few words, transforms a flat and sad line into a brilliant joke, and who progressively learns you the “Art of Comedy”.
Daniel Toppani
“It is nearly impossible to find a successful comedian who is also a generous and supportive teacher. Ross is that comedian. We met over Zoom for a 1:1 coaching session. With patience, generosity and a commitment to the funny, Ross coached me through the revisions. It was the best hour of comedy writing I have experienced as a new comic. At the end of the session, I had a set of revised jokes that sounded like me and were much funnier. I left without feeling like I had compromised my "voice"…something I'm working on in my life…. thank you for respecting that in me and other comedians.“
Catherine Shea
Coaching
One of my client’s recently commented:
“…for more than three years I have been messing around with stand up comedy… sometimes getting laughs, occasionally seeing the glimmer of something bigger, yet always apprehensive and tentative and unsure. And now after, what?... a half dozen hours of instruction with you… it’s all come together. It all makes sense. I know what I’m doing up there. I suddenly know that if you give me five minutes with an audience, I can make those people laugh. And have fun doing it.”
I have spent the last 50 years as a working Comic. In 2017, I started teaching a class, COMEDY WRITING BOOTCAMP, for the Manhattan Comedy School. It’s here I began to develop the techniques, drills and exercises that I now use to coach my clients.
Like a Blacksmith forging metal, we will transform your jokes into strong authentic material which you will be proud to perform.
