MISBEHAVE ON PAGE ONE
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a screenwriting class taught by a real comedy writer?
Who could pull that off?
Me! That’s who!
22 years writing -
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Emmy-nominated writer -
Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon
10 years teaching -
UCLA Extension
MISBEHAVE ON PAGE ONE - the book -
coming soon!
“In a world where most Comedy Writing jobs last anywhere from 13 weeks to three or four years, Mike Jann worked with me for 22 years. Good comedy writers are hard to find; finding one that consistently turn out product for that long is pretty much the Holy Grail. To make it in this business you have to think funny, that’s the easy part for you because it comes naturally. With this book Mike can give you his decades of experience on how he did it. I highly recommend it.”
—Jay Leno
MISBEHAVE ON PAGE ONE
— the class
10 weeks. A small group — 8-12 writers - never more. Fun scene-writing assigments, table reads of your actual scenes, every week, until they’re actually good.
No boring notes — I will tell you to your face!
I’ve spent a decade watching the light go on in students’ eyes the moment their scenes finally click.
I love this shit! Come misbehave with me!
We made a movie about misbehaving bugs!
Starring Meghan Trainor, Dr. Phil, Sterling K. Brown,
Jay Leno & Tom Green
It’s a story about a mosquito who faints at the sight of blood.
And, her name is Citronella.
Find me on Instagram!
About me
Michael Jann is an Emmy-nominated late-night comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. 10,000 of his jokes have been told on air.
For the past ten years, Michael has been an Instructor for UCLA-Extension where he teaches “How To Write Funny Compelling Scripts That Don’t Suck.”
His book, Misbehave on Page One, (coming soon!) is based on his class and contains ten no-one-else-teaches-this insights.
Mike lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and writing partner Michele Jourdan.
Together they wrote and produced the animated short film
BUG THERAPY starring Meghan Trainor, Dr. Phil, Jay Leno,
Sterling K. Brown, and Tom Green.
Michele’s the smart one; Mike's the pretty one.