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"Comedy Clubs Are Popular Again"
That’s the headline of the Hartford Courant article that we were hipped to by FOS Guy MacPherson.
“Now is the time; the economy is so bad that if ever there was a time to laugh, it’s right now,” says John Calash, entertainment director at Joker’s Wild.
Which is just one of the ways of looking at the current live standup comedy resurgence… at least the one in Hartford, CT.
The article contains lots of speculation, some horse manure and a lot of good, specific information on the Hartford market. William Weir, the author of the piece, needed a hook. The burgeoning scene in central Connecticut was it.
Should we take it as confirmation of a bulletproof standup business? Or should we disregard it as a fantasy? Neither. Regard every bit of information in it on its own merits, identify any opinion as just that– opinion– and don’t get caught up in trying to construct a narrative. This whole roller coaster is going to go on for some time, so folks should be leery of orgasmic optimism just as much as Eeyore-like pessimism.
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The Funnybone in Manchester (10 minutes from Hartford) and City Steam in downtown Hartford are two of the best clubs in New England. They both pay the most, treat comics the best and have full audiences for every show.With all the cities in New England is is somewhat shocking that Hartford can support TWO comedy clubs doing 2 shows each Friday and Saturday. That’s 3200 seats every weekend in Hartford. Meanwhile many other cities in New England are having a tough time with one small club.
“Shocking?”We’re going to go out on a limb here– Perhaps the reason why two comedy clubs in Hartford can sell (or at least fill) 3200 seats a weekend is because, as you stated in your first paragraph, “they… pay the most,” and “treat comics the best.”I know it sounds crazy, but if a club pays well, puts the comics in a nice (not merely “decent”) hotel and allows them to dine from the big person’s menu, a strange chain of events occurs: nearly every comic in North America wants to perform there. Swing the perspectivie around 180 degrees and the people who book that room then have their pick of a much larger (and, it is assumed) more talented pool of performers and can book the room in a manner that closely resembles perfection.