Modified On August 1, 2004
Ann Oldenburg, writing for Gannett News Service, says:
Sitcoms may be in a sorry state these days, but stand-up on TV is seeing a groundswell.
What follows is an enumeration of all the signs that “stand-up and sketch clearly are seeing a resurgence,” touching on all the phenomena that we’ve been highlighting on this very website over the past few months. Read the whole article.
Of course, we don’t agree with her reflexive “sitcom is suffering” sentiment, but for the past five years, we’ve been telling anyone with ears that standup is experiencing a resurgence. Good to see Ms. Oldenburg scrambling onboard. We will not take this as a signal that we can let up. We’re going to turn up the heat on the media ever more. And, of course, we’ll keep you informed whenever the media sees fit to write about standup– in a good way or a bad way.