A Serious Discussion about Comedy
You probably remember “Capitol Hill” from the CHAZ/CHOP from a few years back. Well, there is a local comedy club there that recently booked Dave Smith, Louis Gomez, Jim Florentine, and Kurt Metzger and then, a few weeks later, disinvited them when they found out that the local community disapproved of having these comics come in.
This resulted in a great deal of drama.
Well, The Comedy Cellar’s podcast “Live from the Table” interviewed the bookers of the club and they talked about it for an hour. A lot of interesting prospectives are given and defended.
Check it out.
Generationally, this strikes me as very young Boomer/old Gen-Xer arguing with old Millennials.
There also seems to be an undercurrent of “hey, we know that this was the wrong thing on a weird ethereal moral level but, materially, it was right for our club” thing going on and that is exceptionally distasteful to really wrestle with. Kudos to them for wrestling with it a little.Report
Kudos to them for wrestling with it before ultimately being cowards?Report
We’re in a place where there are two entirely different cultures disagreeing about how to prioritize things.
“You should prioritize them X, V, Q, K, and D!”
“No! K is most important! Then D! Then Q and then X and V!”
We all agree that these things are important. We all agree that Q is third.Report
I was told there would be no algebra.Report
It was Portland that eliminated Algebra, not Seattle.
(I mix them up all the time too.)Report