Jill Edwards blazed the trail by creating innovative corporate training and the groundbreaking original UK Stand-Up Comedy Course in 1994, which Time Out hailed in 1996 as "the place to go for anyone with serious hopes of getting their act together."​ It received a special mention from Ofsted, at London's City Lit. In 2005, Jill blazed the trail again by creating the highly acclaimed and the original Brighton stand-up comedy course, at premier comedy venue Komedia, Brighton. Jill Edwards runs the most established comedy course in the country, since 1994. Jill's stand-up comedy courses have a proven continuous track record of success. Over 25 years she's trained some of the Uk's top comics, including Shaparak Khorsandi, Hal Cruttenden, Francesca Martinez, Shazia Mirza, Jimmy Carr. Brighton's own Christian Jegard, Jack Skipper, Simon Evans, Angela Barnes, Seann Walsh and Romesh Ranganathan. Writers'​ include, bestseller Jenny Colgan, Brighton's "Being Human"​ creator Toby Whithouse and multiple award winning BBC comedy writer Tasha Dhanraj. "People say comedy can't be taught. They could learn a lot from Jill Edwards."​ Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops graduate, Jimmy Carr.Jill's unique corporate training designed for non-comics teaches professionals how to get their message across more effectively, engagingly and memorably. Over 25 years she's shown business professionals across the board how to get ahead using subtle and appropriate humour. They range from promotional staff for international brand-name products to senior academic and research staff presenting scientific and engineering concepts at Imperial College to the staff and lecturers of Oxford University to Sheila's Wheels, Sussex Enterprise and UK Borders Agency staff at the Home Office, design teams at Microsoft and creative teams at Google. Jill has published various articles on aspects of her work and been widely featured in the press and broadcast media. Jill was the BBC's chosen Comedy Coach in the South for their "Comic Relief"​ project in 2011. She mentored Brighton's BBC Radio Sussex presenter Neil Pringle and appeared in BBC One's documentary "Stand-Up for Comic Relief."Specialties: Training people to become professional stand-up comics with a proven and continuous track record of success. Teaching non-comic professionals how to use humour in business effectively. Creating unique workshops and comedy events.