Submitted by Ryan on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 2:27pm
Before arriving in Vermont, I lived in New York City, where I performed stand-up comedy. In running a comedy club, I've had a lot of opportunities to think about how stand-up comedy worked in New York, which has influenced how I run Levity, Vermont's only comedy club. A lot of my decisions draw from one key observation about performing comedy in Vermont and New York: It is very difficult to get stage time.
When you're starting out as a comic, what you really want is stage-time. That's the holy grail. It's your chance to work on your material, perform it in front of an audience, and see what works and what doesn't. In New York, I was able to identify 4 ways to get stage-time:
