Unit 1 · Lesson 6 · 12 min
Bricks, Clubs, Specials, and the Internet Eating Everything
The comedy boom, the crash, alt rooms, podcasts, TikTok, and why the barrier to entry became the barrier to standing out.
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The 1980s comedy boom put a brick wall and a stool in every strip mall in America. Then it crashed, because when everyone can be a comedian, most people are. The 1990s alt-comedy scene rebuilt it in coffee shops and back rooms by doing the one thing the clubs couldn't: being weird on purpose for a small, correct audience.
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The first two lessons are free because history should be. The rest — six units, beginner to professor, plus the Gym, the Film Room, the LOL Engine and your Comedy DNA course — is $15 a month or $100 a year. That's less than the drinks you'll buy after bombing.
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Two months free, which is roughly 8 open mics of gas money.
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