The New Rules of Comedy: Hannah Gadsby, Joel Kim Booster and More Talk Cancel Culture, Inclusivity and Mental Health
29.04.2024 - 18:35
/ variety.com
Julie Seabaugh Comedy constantly shifts and changes, and tenets that might have applied years ago are also on the move. Variety spoke to some comics about everything from social media to cancel culture to figure out the new rules of the comedy scene. Live wherever. New York too expensive? Los Angeles too soul-crushing? Austin … too Texas? Touring headliners now regularly hail from more efficient hubs in Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota or anywhere else with Wi-Fi.
“I don’t hang in Hollywood,” says Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams from Atlanta. “If you learn how to create for yourself, then you don’t have to wait on nobody to give you anything in this business.” The convicted felon who’d been shot twice by 21 is now serving as judge on “Ms.
Pat Settles It.” Her multicam “The Ms. Pat Show” had been dropped three times prior to earning multiple BET and Emmy nominations and breaking streaming records unedited on BET+. Over in Knoxville, Tenn., Leanne Morgan lives some 180 miles away from Nashville pal Nate Bargatze.
“You got to be what they want,” she advises of Hollywood. “They’re looking for this. I need to mold myself into that.” Morgan takes pride in having raised her children, staying who she was and connecting with “a huge audience of darling, darling people.
I cut my own path and started selling out all over the United States, it felt like overnight. If you can find your audience, you could live in Kalamazoo.” Respect your social-media audiences. Social media is a necessary part of building an audience. “You absolutely need to take it seriously,” says UTA agent-turned-independent manager Joe Eshenbaugh.
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