With 8 Emmy Awards in comedy and degrees
in computers and marketing, Paul Wagner's shows are funny, smart, audience-engaging
and full
of enthusiasm. Paul creates custom shows for every event by
integrating custom stand-up comedy with a variety of custom live and video-taped
characters. As a finalist for Saturday Night Live, there is no other
show as engaging and customized for the corporate event marketplace.
Description
Paul Wagner creates create custom interactive educational
comedy shows for any type of organizational or
corporate event. Whether it’s a Tradeshow, Awards Banquet
or Sales Training, Paul will create a show
or series of vignettes so incredibly custom, most people
will think he is an employee of the
company. Research, writing, video production and performing
- all to serve your company
platform and client base.
Awards Banquets and Sales Seminars
Paul Wagner
will provide a unique set of creative elements to establish a custom
show based completely on
information he receives from his in-house research. Paul
often opens with custom stand-up and a
mock-commercial about the company’s main competitor.
He'll
segue into faux-video interactive sketches
where he plays a company employee or former-employee
on the screen. It’s all in good fun
and he can go as far to the wild side as you’d
like. For more educational events, Paul keeps the company
educational platform in my mind’s eye
throughout his time on the stage.
Tradeshows
Tradeshow entertainment often goes far
overboard in terms of it’s draw to the booth. It can tend to neglect the message at hand - which is equally important to engaging the audience. Paul creates
a unique message-integrated show that educates and entertains the audience. The show proves to be intelligent and fun. And it promises to draw more people to your booth than you had in prior years.
ALA CART
1. Custom-Stand-up:
Paul does a tremendous amount of research to make sure that he will represent your company in an intelligent and engaging way. He will learn who was recently fired and who left to work for the company’s primary competitor.
He'll find out what each personality in the company is like and he’ll highlight people’s unique personality traits in a warm and funny way. He
can make the show squeaky clean or he can cross the line a little bit into a traditional comedy show style. 2. Corporate Imposter:
Via industry research, Paul creates a custom character that most resembles a high-level professional in your company’s industry. He’ll pretend to go live
via satellite to this genius - or he’ll play the character live on the stage. Paul will create a bio and background for this character that illuminates a unique and authoritative understanding of the
business at hand. He will use on-screen graphics and flow-charts, make up improbable and funny data and he’ll show comedic video clips about the nature of the business and how your
company engages it’s clients. People love corporate imposters. At first this character appears to be some big-shot know-it-all from corporate - but within minutes,
Paul will have the audience eating out of the palm of his hand. 3. Video-Interactive Interviews:
From his research, Paul will create custom characters that reflect the company history, personnel and business pursuits. He will pretend to go live via-satellite to 8 or so
people that are either fictional creations of people in the industry (or company) or impersonations of people in the hierarchy. These 2-3 minute clips are a huge hit. Paul will play all the
characters and they are pre-taped then projected onto a large screen.
He usually plays 25% women. The audience loves a guy in drag.
The women characters are often the CEO's ex-wife or childhood
sweetheart, depending on the level of PC in the crowd.
4. Mock-Commercials:
These are always a blast. As a finalist for
Saturday Night Live and a former
writer for Keenan Ivory Wayans, Paul Wagner
has been writing sketch comedy for years.
These mock commercials can be
customized pertaining to the industry or Paul can use some
great stock ones. Ro-Grain: A beer that grows hair - is a
big favorite.
5. Company Messaging:
Some companies
require an educational theme in part of the presentation
or show. This usually comes in the form of either company facts
that the hierarchy requires the masses to know or
in the form of language that builds bridges between departments
or to an ethos. This part of the show can be either integrated
throughout the entire performance or provided as a closing piece to generate a kind-hearted
atmosphere.
6. Break-Out Sessions:
Paul often spends a
week with a company at their sales training
slash
awards week. He provides an opening show, mid-week character
visits to educational or break-out
sessions, comedy videos about what's going on when people aren't
in session and then a
closing awards banquet. These break-out sessions are often
used as a playful interruption of an educational
session. Paul plays the maintenance man coming in to check
the sturdiness of seats, test computers or
climb over people to find an outlet. It starts as a serious
thing then it unfolds into mayhem. This is
a huge hit too.
7. On-Site Employee Comedy Videos:
When
Paul spends a week with a company or even
a few days, it's easy to rove with the camera and video people
hanging out, eating, playing golf, etc.
Paul gets candid responses to fun questions and he chops
this together in a
comedic montage video which illustrates the playful nature
of employees. People love to see themselves
on-screen and it builds a sense of community.
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