Listen For the Punchline: Comedy and Audio with Broadway Video and Audible

Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’ production company behind Saturday Night Live, has been making audiences laugh with their television and film productions for decades. When Broadway Video teamed up with Audible for a series of immersive, scripted comedy shows in the audio space, they had to approach storytelling from a different perspective. How do you craft a joke without relying on a performer’s facial expression or body language to help it land? What new, humorous possibilities exist in the medium that would never have been possible in video? In this session, we’ll be joined by Rachel Ghiazza, Britta von Schoeler, Mark Valdez and Achilles Stamatelaky. They’ll talk about creating comedy in the audio space, and how Audible and Broadway Video approached audio-storytelling not as a challenge, but as a creative opportunity—full of exciting, new possibilities.