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I have to hear another like seasoned veteran famous comedian with 14 Netflix specials rant about how all these young comedians are just like doing crowd work and content creation and it's like a cheap excuse for comedy. Like yeah, no Like do you think like we don't want to be like getting 15 spots in the cellar every night and just practicing our material and then going on tour and getting a Netflix special? Obviously, but like the game is not the game when you came up. They they hold on to this nostalgia that like you could just keep on doing open mics and they keep on just like hanging around comedy clubs and one day like Mike Periglia is just going to like walk in while you're doing a set at an open mic at 400 p.m. in the East Village and then like he's just going to give you a spot and from there you're going to go on tour and get a special. It's like not how it works anymore. I hate crowd work and I think content creation is killing the standup comedy game, but it is literally the only way as someone who just like spend the time hustling from open mics and producing their own shows and like not really getting anywhere and then finally just like selling out to the social media and putting up funny clips and then finally achieving some moderate level of success. It's literally the only way to do things nowadays. And the people that hate it so much are the ones that are incentivized and rewarding that system. When you go to a club and ask for spots, they look at your follower count. How many followers you have? Are you going to push tickets? When a bigger comedian wants is looking for an opener to go on tour with him, they're looking at someone with a big following trying to push tickets. Like, yeah, of course, we'd all rather be doing writing and just doing material from our own point of view, real material, and not throwing up Tik Toks and not having to do crowd work. But literally, the only way to make it nowadays is to have a massive following on social media. And if you are building a real hour and a real set of point of view, real comedy, then the the only parts that you're going to be able to throw up on TikTok and Instagram are this crowd work. So, you're going to have to do some crowd work. You're going to have to figure out how to get some stuff up online without wasting your actual standup. Every comedian that came up in the club scene in 1995 before there was social media is like, "Oh my gosh, like I can't believe like like coming up through the club scene like that's how you really do it. all these like new comedians, like they just do like crowd work and content creation. Like, no We want to be doing what you were doing, too. It doesn't exist anymore.