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Stand-up for your mental health: the pioneers using humour as a healer

Comedy-writing classes are being trialled as a groundbreaking new strategy to help men process trauma and manage depression. And they could soon be available via GP referral, too. It's a funny idea, but it might just work...

Scarlett Wrench, Men's Health, 3rd April 2023

Comedy workshop helping mental health patients

The Comedy School is a ground-breaking initiative in Brixton, South London and has been hailed a 'life-saver' by mental health patients.

Olivia Buxton and Nicola Small, The Mirror, 8th June 2019

The Comedy School: teaching children about knife crime

How do you reverse the knife crime crisis? Send in the comedians, says Dominic Maxwell, who talks to the team devising a joke-packed show for school kids.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 13th December 2018

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