Zoom Comedy Show Bookers Need to Look Outside Their Own Neighborhoods

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Zoom Comedy Show Bookers Need to Look Outside Their Own Neighborhoods
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With no physical limitations, digital comedy shows should book beyond their neighborhoods. It doesn't have to be the same NYC and LA comics with industry connections all the time.

The one silver lining of a purely digital comedy world is the breakdown of the geographical limitations between comedians and fans. It’s not easy for an aspiring comedian to jet off to New York or Los Angeles in hopes of getting stage time at Whiplash or the Store, let alone permanently relocate, but it’s almost necessary to push your career forward.

If you’re going to do comedy during a lockdown, you have to get creative, and creativity means more than downloading software. Zoom and Twitch streams can never hold a candle to live, in-person comedy, but they can provide a worthwhile purpose beyond fighting boredom. Like the “#WGAStaffingBoost” movement on Twitter that set out to help unrepped writers get jobs, independent digital shows can help push often overlooked comics into the spotlight.

If you don’t know how to expand your comedian rolodex, just ask. Ask your friends to recommend people. Are you finding a pattern in their recos? Branch out! Be specific. Ask a close friend who they like, ask a fan who they like, ask a comic you only know via Twitter who they like. Ask for more than just a handful, ask for a specific number. Ask for comics who’ve been in the game for over eight years, ask about comics who are under two years in.

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