YOU, BUT FUNNIER

With Beth Lapides
Be more you. And yes—funnier.

FOR PRESENTERS / ORGANIZERS

You, But Funnier is an experiential workshop that helps participants uncover authentic voice, strengthen storytelling, and unleash their own unique sense of humor.

Developed through workshops at venues including Second City, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, UCLA Extension, The Lyric Hyperion, and The Skirball Cultural Center, the workshop combines storytelling, presence, and real-time discovery in a highly engaging room environment.

Participants explore the principles—and ways of seeing—that authentic comedy and storytelling require.

Participants discover how to become more fully themselves in front of an audience—and experience the connection that comes with that.

This isn’t about joke-writing formulas.
It’s about building a storytelling and comedy antenna.

It’s about uncovering what’s alive, specific, and true—then shaping it into material that genuinely connects, while learning a creative process participants can continue evolving long after the workshop ends.

IDEAL FOR

  • Writers, performers, and creators

  • Speakers, storytellers, and presenters

  • Creative teams and educators

  • Conferences, retreats, and arts organizations

  • Humans interested in becoming more fully themselves in front of other humans

FORMAT OPTIONS

  • Keynote-style interactive talk

  • Half-day workshop

  • Multi-session intensive

  • Retreat and conference formats

  • Custom experiences for organizations and creative communities


    Formats can be tailored for educational institutions, arts organizations, wellness spaces, leadership groups, and creative communities.

FOR PARTICIPANTS

This workshop is about more than being funny.

It’s about discovering what happens when you trust your own voice, tell the truth more fully, and allow an audience to connect with the real you.

Participants often leave with:

  • new material

  • greater confidence

  • a stronger sense of their own voice

  • unexpected insight into their stories

  • clarity about creative direction and next projects

  • and a deeper understanding of how humor creates connection

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

You, But Funnier isn’t about surface tricks or trying to sound clever.

It’s about courage, connection, and learning how to recognize what is genuinely alive in your stories, your perspective, and your voice.

The workshop helps participants break through limiting habits around writing, performance, and self-consciousness—not by becoming less themselves, but by becoming more fully themselves inside the creative process.

Humor becomes less about “trying to be funny” and more about learning to recognize what is surprising, true, human, and real.

The result is often not just stronger material, but greater creative freedom, confidence, and connection.

“I was inspired to write and perform new pieces, and left with new-found confidence in what makes me unique.”

— Jane Alcala

“Beth is brilliant. Deeply insightful, kind, super funny, with a guru’s instinct for excavating the best part of your creative self.”

— Melanie Taylor, singer

“Beth Lapides is magical. She sees something in every story — even when the story is not there.”

— Julie Nunis

Beth Lapides is the creator and host of UnCabaret, widely recognized as a pioneering force in alternative comedy.

Through workshops, performances, speaking engagements, and creative development work, she has helped writers, performers, speakers, and creators uncover authentic voice, deepen connection, and bring new work to life.

Beth has taught and facilitated workshops at venues and institutions including Second City, UCLA Extension, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, The Lyric Hyperion, and The Skirball Cultural Center.

Let’s start a conversation.