How to Write a Comedic Memoir Zoom Seminar with Elissa Bassist, Sunday, September 7th, 2025

Sunday, September 7th, 2025 Live Seminar via Zoom from 2:30PM - 5:30PM EST  Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Elissa Bassist is the editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and the author of Hysterical, a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, Elissa has written cultural and personal criticism since the website launched in 2009. INSIDE JOKES, a humor writing craft book, co-written with Caitlin Kunkel, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing in 2026. Elissa teaches humor writing at The New School and elsewhere, and she is probably her therapist’s favorite. Is it your dream to write a full-length about yourself/your exes/parents and be funny about it?  You don’t have to be a celebrity comedian to write a funny memoir. You don’t have to be born with a sense of humor or have had anything funny happen to you. A memoirist must make a meal out of her experienc