gonna retweet this again, first because it's such a good article, and second because it's really encouraging a lot of people to tell on themselves in public. https://twitter.com/ohrhealy/status/1265195049152909312

it's been this all day. "everybody begins poor"

overheads for doing the fringe regularly run to five figures. i got accepted to do a showcase ago and they asked for a grand up front to perform FOR them. if you're working full time, you've got to take a month off work. wth

seen half a dozen people characterise this as a hit piece. they read an article that says "working class people are fucked by the pandemic" and they just can't acknowledge it as anything other than some kind of bolshevik coup to take their steve bennett pull-quotes away.

does it skew the "meritocracy" of the arts that some people are absolutely loaded?
how would you feel if you could only afford one lottery ticket, someone else bought a million, won the jackpot and then guardian goes "guess this guy's just better at lottery".

i cannot stress enough how fucked comedy is for this kind of thing. the whole industry is oiled by one middle age guy's blog. even he recognised the stark lack of representation in industry criticism, so paid someone -£500 to pick up the slack. https://twitter.com/seanmorl/status/1163044583443488768