Basic Writing with The Onion Online

Second City has partnered with The Onion to present this fundamental online course outlining The Onion's unique system of generating comedy ideas and stories. Learn how to create winning premises, essays and one-liners, but also find your unique comedy voice and learn to trust it to produce reliably successful humor writing. You'll work through The Onion's multi-step process in a workshop environment.

This is an introduction to The Onion's unique top-down approach to comedy writing, and how to implement that approach to craft successful comedic premises and concepts. This class focuses on the most important element: the art of the Onion headline.

This course is conducted by e-mail and online correspondence with a Writing instructor.