Comedy Bootcamp®

This six-week class will meet on Sundays: September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, and November 1.

Learn the basics of standup comedy in this six-week class taught by professional comics. The class ends with a graduation show where you’ll deliver a five-minute comedy set to a public audience. Our 600+ graduates have gone on to perform on some of the world’s biggest stages, including Warner Theater, Gotham Comedy Club, and The White House.

Participants will have weekly writing “homework” in between class sessions to prepare a 5-minute set for their graduation show on November 8.

Melissa Duke is an Air Force (AF) veteran with two children, an AF spouse, and a graduate of ASAP’s first ever Comedy Bootcamp® class. She has been doing stand up with ASAP for over ten years, mentoring/instructing for over eight of those years, and has been invited to perform for Amazon, Gotham City Comedy Club, and President and Mrs. Carter.

Clay Beyersdorfer is a St. Louis-based standup comedian and writer whose work has taken him from clubs like the Comedy Store and Laugh Factory to national festivals, including Flyover, Loons on the Lake, and RISE Comedy Festival. He was a finalist for both STL’s Funniest and Loons on the Lake 2026 and has opened for headliners like Adam Cayton-Holland, Yakov Smirnoff, and Kym Whitley.
Off stage, Clay was recently accepted into the Writers Guild Foundation’s Veterans Writing Project—one of the most competitive writing programs in the country—where he continues to develop his voice as a screenwriter.