We are excited to announce a lot of exciting new ways in which Flappers Comedy Club, Flappers University, and the Comedy Community are coming together in new and innovated ways! 

Starting October 13th we are happy to announce that we are joining up with Lisa Sundstedt and Pretty Funny Women to offer a comedy class for women comics in all stages of their comedy career! Lisa has been part of the LA comedy scene as a comic and comedy instructor and mentor for many years, and we are thrilled she wants to partner with Flappers to bring high quality instruction and mentorship to women looking to find and continue growing in their comic voice! 

We are also excited to announce that the CDC has approved IN PERSON CLASSES in our Main Room, so that proper social distancing can take place. We are limiting the class to 8 comics, plus 1 instructor. Our recent poll results concluded that 45% of those who took the poll are ready to come back with proper safety measures, while 50% said they'll wait until 2021, and 5% either thought it's unsafe or were not interested in general. Our first class in person will start October 27th. All are welcome, as the class is designed to and named "Dust Off the Rust," so comics can have a few weeks getting used to using their whole bodies again on a stage, instead of just a torso and head. The class will end with a Live Stream Main Room show! 

Flappers will continue to have virtual shows, but we feel it is time to allow those healthy enough to participate to come back to the state in some form and capacity. 

We are also happy to have brought on new instructors the past few weeks including Teresa Lo (Writing Instructor), Christine Blackburn (Storytelling Instructor), and Sarah Cornell (TV Sketch). Also including Lisa Sundstedt, we are very happy to add four female instructors, on top of our already established instructors Renee Percy, Dana Eagle, and Flappers Co-Founder Barbara Holliday.     

We also have at the bottom of the newsletter a new book we are promoting by Aidan Park called "The Art of Being Yay! about his journey through life and comedy. Aidan has been a longtime favorite here at Flappers, and we are excited to see his new book help people heal the wounds of life. 

Comedy is about community, and we are dedicated to providing comics with resources and opportunities and helping comics who are looking to give back as well. We have been lucky enough to support many comics financially through the pandemic through workshops and classes, and our team continues to expand and grow. With our free Joke Labs on Wednesday, we've seen a lot of comics grow and develop bits that later have become viral social media sketches, and many of these comics come from all over the USA as well as globally. Comics from India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore have joined us, sometimes in the middle of the night in their country or city-state. 

The reason community is so important to myself and us at Flappers is because too often artists take a journey that many of their day-to-day friends and family don't understand. We must support each other, and we must find ways to stay connected in such isolating times. That's been my goal since starting, but especially since March 16th, when we had to close our doors and open our laptops.

Since March, we have served over 1,000 students during the pandemic, and we look forward to continuing to serve the comedy community by truly creating a place where comics, students, writers, and others can come together to share ideas and grow in a world hell bent on tearing us apart.