Corporate Training & Events
Corporate Training & Events
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Serious skills. Taught through comedy.
Serious skills. Taught through comedy.
Comedy isn’t just about being funny.
Stand-up comedians learn how to hold a room, communicate an idea clearly, think on their feet, understand an audience, recover when something goes wrong and deliver with confidence.
Those are pretty useful skills outside a comedy club too.
Comedy Train brings the techniques used by professional comedians into workplaces, conferences, away days and corporate events.
Our practical, interactive sessions can help your team become more confident communicators, stronger presenters and more creative collaborators — while giving them an experience considerably more memorable than another afternoon looking at PowerPoint slides.
Give your team the confidence to hold a room.
Give your team the confidence to hold a room.
Comedy Train workshops use exercises from stand-up, improvisation, comedy writing and live performance to develop real-world workplace skills.
Sessions can be designed around:
Presentation Skills
Learn how performers command attention, structure ideas and communicate confidently to a room.
Pitching & Persuasion
Explore how comedians quickly establish a premise, make an audience care and communicate complicated ideas simply.
Confidence & Public Speaking
Build confidence speaking in front of other people in a supportive environment where experimentation is encouraged.
Thinking on Your Feet
Improvisation exercises help participants become more comfortable responding to unexpected situations without freezing.
Teamwork & Communication
Good improvisation relies on listening, supporting other people’s ideas and building something together — exactly the skills effective teams need.
Creative Thinking
Comedy encourages people to make unusual connections, challenge assumptions and approach familiar problems from completely different directions.
Storytelling
Learn techniques comedians use to turn information into stories people actually want to listen to.
Audience Awareness
Great communication isn’t simply about what you want to say. It’s about understanding the people you’re saying it to.
Handling Pressure & Mistakes
Live performers occasionally get things wrong. The important skill is learning how to recover, adapt and keep going.
Workshops That People Actually Participate In
Workshops That People Actually Participate In
Nobody needs to be a comedian.
And nobody is going to be unexpectedly dragged onto a stage and told to “be funny.”
Our workshops are practical, supportive and designed to get people participating at a level they’re comfortable with.
A typical session might include exercises in:
improvisation and active listening;
storytelling;
presenting ideas;
communicating information clearly;
building confidence in front of a group;
generating ideas quickly;
collaboration and group problem-solving;
understanding audiences;
finding humour and personality within communication.
The emphasis isn’t on creating professional comedians.
It’s about taking the skills comedians develop and applying them to professional communication.
Bespoke Training
Bespoke Training
Every organisation is different.
We can build sessions around the skills your team actually needs rather than delivering the same workshop to everybody.
That might be:
A one-hour conference workshop
A half-day team development session
A full-day corporate training programme
An away-day activity
Presentation or pitching training
Creative-thinking workshops
Confidence and public-speaking training
Improvisation-based team development
Or something completely bespoke.
Tell us what you want your team to become better at and we’ll design the session around it.
Let’s Build Something For Your Team
Let’s Build Something For Your Team
Whether you’re looking for a memorable team-building session, better presentation skills, a creative conference workshop or an experienced MC to host your event, we’d love to hear what you’re planning.
Corporate workshops • Team building • Presentation training • Public speaking • Creative thinking • Conference facilitation • Event hosting • Awards hosting • Professional MCing
Tell us about your event or team
Tell us about your event or team
Get in touch with:
Number of participants
Location
Preferred date
Length of session/event
What you’d like your team to get from the experience
and we’ll recommend an appropriate package.
Comedy Train
Serious skills. Taught through comedy.
Who Are Comedy Train?
Who Are Comedy Train?
Comedy Train provides accessible, practical comedy training using techniques from stand-up, improvisation, writing and performance.
Our training is led by people who actually work in comedy, performance and education.
The company was founded by comedian, writer, performer and qualified teacher Tom Short, who has more than a decade of experience performing comedy alongside extensive experience teaching and facilitating workshops.
Tom holds a BA (Hons) in Comedy Writing & Performance, a PGCE and an MA in Contemporary Performance Practice and has taught comedy and performance within further and higher education.
His comedy credits include being a Chortle Student Comedy Award runner-up, Leicester Square New Comedian finalist, Leicester Square Sketch Off Wild Card Pick and North West Comedy Awards Best Alternative Act nominee, alongside performing as part of the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize-winning Funz and Gamez.
His 2026 Edinburgh Fringe work received further award nominations and national coverage, including recognition from the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Comedians’ Choice Awards and International Cultural Awards.
Comedy Train director Ross Preston brings around a decade of experience running G-A-Y Manchester, with extensive experience in live events, venues, organisation and working with audiences.
Together, Comedy Train combines professional comedy experience with education, facilitation and live-event expertise.
Previous Workshops & Professional Experience
Our workshops and training have been delivered within professional, educational, business and public-engagement settings, including work with or for:
The British Science Festival
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
The University of Kent
The University of Salford / Launch@Salford
The Institute of Robotics, Autonomous Systems and IoT
Tameside College IT department
alongside universities, businesses, performers and community organisations across the UK.
Why Comedy?
Why Comedy?
Because the best communicators and the best comedians have more in common than you might think.
Both need to:
understand their audience;
communicate an idea clearly;
hold people’s attention;
tell compelling stories;
respond to unexpected situations;
project confidence;
listen;
adapt;
and ultimately…
make people want to keep listening.
We teach those skills through comedy.
Conferences & Corporate Events
Conferences & Corporate Events
Need someone to hold the room?
Need someone to hold the room?
Comedy Train can also provide experienced professional comedians and facilitators for corporate events.
We are available for:
MC & Event Hosting
Keep your event moving, introduce speakers, engage the audience and deal confidently with the unexpected.
Conference Hosting
Professional hosting that brings personality and energy to conferences without overshadowing the event itself.
Awards Ceremonies
Experienced comedy MCing can transform an awards ceremony from a succession of names into an actual event.
Panels & Q&As
Moderation and facilitation designed to keep conversations focused, accessible and entertaining.
Corporate Entertainment
Comedy performances and bespoke entertainment for company events, celebrations and conferences.
Away Days & Team Events
Combine comedy training with entertainment to create an event your team will actually remember.
We can provide hosting as a standalone service or combine it with one of our workshops to create a complete event.
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