Hey everyone, i just want everyone to know that there have been so many bookers that wouldn’t even offer me a chance to suck their dicks for stage time! I was just straight blackballed from their clubs for years! Clubs wouldn’t let me even showcase or open for people or anything
So knowing that these bookers wouldn’t even give me a chance to possibly suck their dicks or fuck their asses i decided to start my own rooms and go own my own tours playong alternative rooms! I barely made any money ever! I just kept grinding!
I sold a pitch pilot to comedy central which is way for comedy central to get a show developed while they fucked the artist out of making money! I was the first comic to sell out this little theater comedy central had on santa monica blvd! Comedy Central invite all the stars
To the show to show them how to present a pilot! The show crushed! A future comedy central was there and left so depressed because he said he didn’t think he could do anything funnier than what he saw! Comedy Central said and i quote “Loved the show but hate Sam!”
My manager dropped me and developed a similar show with another one of his clients! I was done in hollywood for awhile in hollywood! I had a show on Spiketv! We had the #1 original programming on the channel and got cancelled because of a changing of the guard!
I did stand up one time on comedy central on premium blend, got a standing O and never ask to do a set ever again on the channel! Couldn’t get booked anywhere so i had to start figuring out different way to generate money! So i started a podcast and booking stand up shows...
In Los Angeles! My first 4 podcast had mixed results! Punch Drunk dod fine but not enough to tour off of and my own personal podcasts all bombed! While all of my friends’ podcast were getting 100k biews mine was getting 5k! The NaughtyShow podcast was so funny and no one listened
Two more podcast on that feed would fail before i decide is to do a conspiracy podcast called “Tin Foil Hat” with my first guest being one of close friends Eddie Bravo! The Comedy Gods finally threw me a bone! I know tour with Eddie and XG to sold out shows! ...
I have been producing live events for over 20 years barely scrapping by. Making just enough money to honor my commitments to the performers and then pay my bills! I was almost banned from producing shows at the Comedy Store because i couldn’t fill the room! However things....
I was giving one more chance and i took it! I stripped down the show and just did a straight stand up show and boom Comedy Chaos wad born! When it was running it was one of the best showcase comedy shows in the world! I have been doing comedy for 25 years!
22 of those years i was barely scrapping by! Stand up is cruel! It has to be to cut the mediocre out! I didn’t start making real money and that real money for me until i was 43 years old! This business is impossible for everyone!
Stop crying about how your were treated! There are so many assholes in this business and you have to beat them! They are like level bosses in video games! You must rise above them! If you want easy flip burgers! If you love comedy fight for it! Go where you are loved!
Make your own career happen!
*i now
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