If you already keep a notebook, attend weekly mics, and have a tight 3 minutes… you’re probably just looking for the link to the open-mic listings. While you’re there find a Podcast or Zoom Mic to branch out.

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Statistically, it’s easier to start a million dollar publicly traded company than it is to become a world famous comedian. If you’re getting into comedy because you think you could be famous, impress someone special, or you think it looks like easy money… think twice. There are easier ways to get famous, get laid, and make money.

The first couple of years of Comedy are grueling, largely thankless, mentally strenuous, and financially unrewarding. You have to REALLY love comedy (almost to the point of being obsessed with it) to overcome the struggle of getting good. You have to bomb at open mics (like a LOT), and endure the politics and drama stirred up by the local comedy status quo. Even when you do get good, local clubs will make you work for free and other local comics will tell you that you’re less funny than you are. All if these things are just par for the course for your first few years in the industry.

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