May 20, 2025 • 16 mins
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Welcome to Episode 435 of The Clean Comedy Podcast! This week JD talks about Minnesota shows, seeing the Bronze Fonzi, questioning his set, and maybe a new opportunity for LISTENERS!
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Welcome to Episode 435 of The Clean Comedy Podcast! This week JD talks about Minnesota shows, seeing the Bronze Fonzi, questioning his set, and maybe a new opportunity for LISTENERS!
Come see Zane and I! You can see all the tour dates at ZaneLamprey.com
Feel free to email me: jamesdcreviston at GMAIL.COM
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-clean-comedy-podcast-w-jd-creviston--4825680/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, real quick, if you're a clean comedian or trying
to be one, you've got to get on my Clean
Comedian Pro Tips newsletter. Every week I send out one
killer tip to help you write tighter, get booked more often,
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and quick the link join up, sign up. It's free,
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(00:21):
get some green. Hey everybody, welcome to the Clean Comedy Podcast.
Jad and I am back home. I'm back home for
a little while. Seth was not able to record with me,
so I am doing another solo episode coming off a
run in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The lound of ten thousand
laughs is what I'm gonna call it, because that was
(00:42):
a great run. We had some great shows there, Detroit Lakes,
Big Lake and Alexandria and man, that was so much fun.
Crowds there were amazing, great crowds, packed rooms. I'll be
cutting up some clips and editing those soon, but uh,
such a good run. We had a lot of fun.
(01:03):
And I didn't get to go to the Mall America.
That is my only bummer that did not get to go.
I did go to the Bronze Fonzie, which was in
Milwaukee before we before we flew out to go up
to Minnesota, so I got to do that the last day.
And then I did get to you know, eat eat
(01:26):
cheese curds in Wisconsin. I got to eat good food
in in Minnie and Minnesota. And I got to introduce
Zaine to Freddie Steakburger's, which he'd never had, so that
was kind of cool. And it was just overall a
really fun trip. I changed up some jokes, I changed
the punchlines, the way the flow of jokes set up jokes.
(01:49):
I'm working on expanding some pieces. It was a really
au that second half of that run because it was
Wisconsin followed by Minnesota. That second half of that run
just changing and finessing stuff and finagling things. It was good.
It was funny, and I'm hoping it's a good clip
because I gotta find it. But there was one night
(02:10):
in Minnesota. It was the Alexandria Show. I think, where
I'm doing a joke and I do a punchline and
the room laughs and then this lady snorts so loud
everyone hears it. I don't know if it's on audio, Like,
if you can hear it on audio, I hope that
you can. And it was by far my favorite laugh
I've ever heard of my entire life. And I actually
(02:32):
stopped and commented on it, that's how good of a
laugh it was. And it really made my nights. And
as I thought about it, I was like, that's really what
we do it for, is to hear people really enjoy
and love comedy. And I don't know if I'm you know,
I'm not breaking any barriers with my stand up. I'm
not you know, Carlin and being philosophical or political. I'm
(02:53):
not gaffiging and being extra silly about food topics. I'm
not gonna be more observational than Jerry Seinfeld. I don't
really know what it is I'm doing, and I know
that sounds weird to say. It's like I'm trying to
make people laugh about things that I find funny, and
(03:14):
I think that's kind of where my core of my
stuff is. But it's like, do I need to have
a thing. Do I need to be a meathead like
Joe Rogan? Do I need to be angry like Bil Burr?
Do I need to be kind of weird like Luisa
k Do I need to be a fat, catholic guy
like Gaffigan? Do I need to be, you know, a
wild and crazy like Steve Martin? What do I need
to do to set myself apart? And I think that's
(03:37):
the question I've been asking myself is what am I
doing differently? And do I need to do something differently?
What do I need to do? And I know, I
know Bob came out again, shout out to Bob came
out to you know, a show of Milwaukee, And maybe
this is something that you guys can can email me about,
you know, shoot me an email James D. Creviston at
gmail dot com and let me know, like, what do
(04:00):
you what do you think I should be doing? Am
I doing the right things when you see the show,
when you hear my stand up or whenever you see
any of my stuff? Am I doing something? Or am
I just being hacky? Am I just being every other
white guy doing stand up? And it's a really bizarre question,
I know, But am I Am I moving the needle?
(04:22):
Am I am I being unique? Or am I just
being another white dude on stage? Does that make sense?
I don't know if it does. It's a question I've
been kind of like debating. It's kind of something that
like Zane and I talked about and I don't know.
I don't know, And it makes me question, am I
(04:42):
doing something substantial for stand up? Or am I just
a clown? Does that make sense? I mean, I don't
want to get too deep in the weeds. I don't
want to get like too philosophical here, but it's like,
what am I? What is my What am I? What
am I doing? Am I doing the right things? Am
I doing the thing to move everything forward? Am I
(05:04):
just being another guy doing stand up you know, around
the country? And I don't know? And then it makes
me questioned like, well, okay, if I'm not, then what
should I be doing? And what do I need to change?
Am I do I need to change the thing? Are
you finding what I do to be entertaining or are
you finding it to be lame? Or are you finding
(05:24):
it to be like everyone else? What is the what
is it? You know? And I think that's to me,
that's the big question. That's what I'm wondering. Is am I?
Am I different enough that I stand out from the crowd?
(05:45):
Or am I just like everybody else. And I know
that sounds stupid, right because you're like, oh no, you're
your own person. Obviously you have a different name, different voice,
different look, whatever. Yeah, but am I so? Am I unique?
Am I that unique? You know? I have one bit,
the Fat Fonzi bit, which works really well and it's funny.
(06:06):
I have, you know, bits that do work. All my
bits work. It's not like I'm like, oh, these don't
work or they don't really play that well, or they
don't really do what I want. You know, what is
it that I should be doing? And I'm wondering. Am
I Am I sacrificing great comedy for safe comedy? Right?
(06:28):
Am I being extra safe? Am I being too thoughtful?
Am I not being wild enough? I mean, I'm not
gonna go dirty or anything like that. It's not what
I'm saying, But I'm like, am I not being aggressive enough?
Am I not being Am I not standing out enough?
I don't know? I would I I would love to
hear feedback. You know, you guys can shoot me an email,
let me know, or pop drop me a DM on
(06:48):
on Instagram, whatever it is, you know, like, let me know,
because it's like I want to know. Am I actually
doing something worthwhile? Or am I just being you know,
doing a great, a good thing. I don't know, does
that make sense? I don't know if any if that's
(07:09):
making sense to anybody or else. It's just me being
hyper critical and self aware, you know, you know? Or
am I overthinking things? You know? So I don't know.
It feels like I could be doing something better, But
(07:33):
I don't know if I'm not doing something now, am
I not being good enough at what I do? I
don't know. I know this is a rambling episode. I apologize.
So that's where That's kind of where I'm at. I
am working on new jokes. While I'm home, I'm gonna
be working on new stuff. We're gonna head back out
(07:53):
at the end of at the end of May, so
we'll be in Crownpoint, Indiana, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Lombard, Illinois,
doing two shows early in the late show there. So
those will be May twenty nine through May thirty. First,
(08:14):
then we'll be coming home, and then we'll be going
down to like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and then another run
through Texas and New Mexico and then finally for the
end for ending out June will be in Ohio, Indiana,
and Indiana and then part of Pennsylvania again. So hopefully
you guys can come out and see us. If you're listening,
if you want to see my stand up, I would
(08:34):
really appreciate it. It's been good runs. These other ones
are going to be good short runs, which I'm glad
because I want to be able to have some short
short runs for a little while, you know, three four
days something like that, and just come home, three four days,
come home, three four days, come home. I guess the
twentieth one through the eighth. That's that's a longer run.
Looks like we might be adding some shows there too,
(08:56):
but I'm hoping that we can have a good run.
So I don't know what is what what do you
think about when you do comedy or what is your process?
I wo'd love to hear from you guys. Let me know,
shoot me a message, tell me you know, hey, this
is what I think about when I write a joke,
or this is the type of person I try to
(09:16):
be on stage because I just try to be me, right,
I'm not trying to be somebody else. I'm not trying
to be the next Louis or the next Gaffigan or
the next Brian Reagan, or the next Bilberg or the
next whatever. I'm trying to be the next anything. I'm
trying to be me. I'm trying to relate my silly
experiences and my funny point of view in my life
(09:37):
to everyone else, and then hopefully it's relatable to them.
And that's kind of it. It might, But I'm worried
that if I don't say something different, if I'm not
being you know, Matt Rife or Andrew Schultz or something
like that, I'm not pushing those boundaries. Am I really
doing anything? You know? A forty year old guy who
(10:01):
wants to hear from a forty year old guy. I
don't know some of you do because you listen to
this podcast, but who wants to listen to it from stage?
Is it important? You know? And it really made me
think am I doing the right thing? Or should I
be focusing on something else? Because I don't know if
I don't know how much you guys know, and I
don't know how much I've shared, and maybe I haven't
shared enough. But uh, if I broke down to you
(10:23):
what I do every day, you know I'm writing projects,
for people. I just finished a video game project for somebody.
I'm working on a pilot TV pilot for somebody, working
on video game audio and jokes for another project I'm
trying to create. I don't know if you guys want
this either. Well, let me ask you. Would you want
me to come up with? And I thought about this
(10:47):
with a blueprint or a guide to get yourself clean
bookings so you could book your own stuff at clean places, churches,
things outside of a comedy club, churches, you know, retirement homes,
which I did last year and made a ton of money.
Corporate gigs, you know, family functions, school functions, all those
(11:08):
like a how to guide or a course on how
to do that? Let me know, shoot me an email,
shoot being email James D. Creviston at gmail dot com
should be an email. Would you be interested in that?
Is this something that you guys want? You know? I'm
hearing two different signs of this from some people. I'm like,
I'm hearing why would anyone want that? That's stupid? But
I'm thinking I made money that way and I'm not famous.
(11:31):
Why would I not want to share that and help
somebody else get money and get paid? You know, I
don't know. Sorry, I swelled water down the wrong pipe.
What is you know, is that something you'd be interested in?
(11:51):
A guide to where to go, who to talk to,
email templates, attracting sheet, you know, what to say, all
those kind of things, phone template, because sadly a lot
of these places not only do email, but that you
follow up on phone or your phone, get an email, email,
then follow up again on phone. It's a process, you know.
(12:11):
But in two weeks I was able to book a
bunch of and this is and I again, I just
wanted to try it. I want to see how many
retirement homes, old folks homes, whatever you call them, retirement communities, whatever,
whatever your name you want to call them. How many
of those I could book just calling for like a week.
And I ended the book in like twenty five. And
(12:34):
I was making anywhere from one fifty to four hundred
bucks per show. And they were during the day, you know,
so in the afternoon or whatever. So I could still
go do club shows at night or two other shows
at night, but I was making something during the day.
How nice would it be to make you know, two
hundred three hundred bucks, you know, one fifty to four
hundred bucks every you know, two days a week or whatever,
(12:57):
so it's eight hundred bucks or three hundred bucks every week,
and just then put those on, you know, quarterly things
like hey, quarterly, I'll come out and do a show,
or every six months, I'll come out and do a show.
Once you do well, and once you have video and
once you have stuff you can get in there and
then and then a lot of those communities are they're
(13:18):
like a group. So there's like there's like the same
company owns like twelve of them within a one hundred
mile radius of you, and you could be doing them.
You do one a month and rotate back through. So
you have those booked every month, and then you have
another ones booked every month, and then whatever you can
end up doing it. It'll take a little planning. But
then the other thing is I've been asked to do
(13:39):
school fundraisers and school pta things and ceremonies and awards
things and speeches, like there is a lot that people
want and is that something that you guys would be
interested in if I created that? Because I'm hearing from
some people that's a stupid idea. Nobody's gonna buy that.
(14:04):
And I'm not even talking about making it expensive. I'm
talking less than a hundred bucks for sure. But it
will give you everything you need to do that If
I sold it to you for one hundred bucks or whatever,
ninety seven dollars and you turned around and made a
hundred and fifty bucks off of it, you didn't lose anything.
And I know that you can make one hundred and
fifty bucks easily doing it one time. Are you guys
(14:25):
what booking? And you make your money back? You know?
You know I sold for two hundred bucks one to
two bookings, you make your money back. I don't think
that's a bad proposition, and I feel like that's something
that a lot of comedians could use. The problem is
a lot of comedians don't know how to be their
own business. They don't know how to go out there
and hustle. And if I give you a guide book
(14:45):
to it, will you use it? Is that something you
guys will do? You know? Shoot me an email, let
me know I'm really be interested, or shoot me a
DM on Instagram. Whatever it is. I think there's something
there and I have part of it built, But is it?
Is it something people want? I don't? And so these
are questions that this is what a lot of time
(15:07):
on the road and a lot of time in a
hotel room and a lot of time with your thoughts does.
So I'm very excited for all of you who listen.
I'm very excited for any of you who come out
the shows. Shout out to you for coming out. I
really appreciate it. I hope that you're doing well. Let
me know, let me know an think if you think
I should move forward on. This is something I will
wholeheartedly put my heart and soul into to create for
(15:28):
you guys. If one person emails me, great, If nobody
emails me, fine, no worries. But I hope that at
lea should get something out of this podcast. Hopefully you
get something out of the Queen Comedian pro tips if
you're not subscribed on that on substack, go and subscribe,
it's free. Go do that should be in the show notes.
(15:48):
And I hope that you're out there with living your
dreams and do what you want, because that's what I'm
trying to do. And I'm hope you then I making
the world a better place through comedy, through this podcast,
through everything that I do, and you guys are awesome.
Thank you so much for listening, and I'll talk to
you soon. Bye mm hmmm.
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to be one, you've got to get on my Clean
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(00:21):
get some green. Hey everybody, welcome to the Clean Comedy Podcast.
Jad and I am back home. I'm back home for
a little while. Seth was not able to record with me,
so I am doing another solo episode coming off a
run in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The lound of ten thousand
laughs is what I'm gonna call it, because that was
(00:42):
a great run. We had some great shows there, Detroit Lakes,
Big Lake and Alexandria and man, that was so much fun.
Crowds there were amazing, great crowds, packed rooms. I'll be
cutting up some clips and editing those soon, but uh,
such a good run. We had a lot of fun.
(01:03):
And I didn't get to go to the Mall America.
That is my only bummer that did not get to go.
I did go to the Bronze Fonzie, which was in
Milwaukee before we before we flew out to go up
to Minnesota, so I got to do that the last day.
And then I did get to you know, eat eat
(01:26):
cheese curds in Wisconsin. I got to eat good food
in in Minnie and Minnesota. And I got to introduce
Zaine to Freddie Steakburger's, which he'd never had, so that
was kind of cool. And it was just overall a
really fun trip. I changed up some jokes, I changed
the punchlines, the way the flow of jokes set up jokes.
(01:49):
I'm working on expanding some pieces. It was a really
au that second half of that run because it was
Wisconsin followed by Minnesota. That second half of that run
just changing and finessing stuff and finagling things. It was good.
It was funny, and I'm hoping it's a good clip
because I gotta find it. But there was one night
(02:10):
in Minnesota. It was the Alexandria Show. I think, where
I'm doing a joke and I do a punchline and
the room laughs and then this lady snorts so loud
everyone hears it. I don't know if it's on audio, Like,
if you can hear it on audio, I hope that
you can. And it was by far my favorite laugh
I've ever heard of my entire life. And I actually
(02:32):
stopped and commented on it, that's how good of a
laugh it was. And it really made my nights. And
as I thought about it, I was like, that's really what
we do it for, is to hear people really enjoy
and love comedy. And I don't know if I'm you know,
I'm not breaking any barriers with my stand up. I'm
not you know, Carlin and being philosophical or political. I'm
(02:53):
not gaffiging and being extra silly about food topics. I'm
not gonna be more observational than Jerry Seinfeld. I don't
really know what it is I'm doing, and I know
that sounds weird to say. It's like I'm trying to
make people laugh about things that I find funny, and
(03:14):
I think that's kind of where my core of my
stuff is. But it's like, do I need to have
a thing. Do I need to be a meathead like
Joe Rogan? Do I need to be angry like Bil Burr?
Do I need to be kind of weird like Luisa
k Do I need to be a fat, catholic guy
like Gaffigan? Do I need to be, you know, a
wild and crazy like Steve Martin? What do I need
to do to set myself apart? And I think that's
(03:37):
the question I've been asking myself is what am I
doing differently? And do I need to do something differently?
What do I need to do? And I know, I
know Bob came out again, shout out to Bob came
out to you know, a show of Milwaukee, And maybe
this is something that you guys can can email me about,
you know, shoot me an email James D. Creviston at
gmail dot com and let me know, like, what do
(04:00):
you what do you think I should be doing? Am
I doing the right things when you see the show,
when you hear my stand up or whenever you see
any of my stuff? Am I doing something? Or am
I just being hacky? Am I just being every other
white guy doing stand up? And it's a really bizarre question,
I know, But am I Am I moving the needle?
(04:22):
Am I am I being unique? Or am I just
being another white dude on stage? Does that make sense?
I don't know if it does. It's a question I've
been kind of like debating. It's kind of something that
like Zane and I talked about and I don't know.
I don't know, And it makes me question, am I
(04:42):
doing something substantial for stand up? Or am I just
a clown? Does that make sense? I mean, I don't
want to get too deep in the weeds. I don't
want to get like too philosophical here, but it's like,
what am I? What is my What am I? What
am I doing? Am I doing the right things? Am
I doing the thing to move everything forward? Am I
(05:04):
just being another guy doing stand up you know, around
the country? And I don't know? And then it makes
me questioned like, well, okay, if I'm not, then what
should I be doing? And what do I need to change?
Am I do I need to change the thing? Are
you finding what I do to be entertaining or are
you finding it to be lame? Or are you finding
(05:24):
it to be like everyone else? What is the what
is it? You know? And I think that's to me,
that's the big question. That's what I'm wondering. Is am I?
Am I different enough that I stand out from the crowd?
(05:45):
Or am I just like everybody else. And I know
that sounds stupid, right because you're like, oh no, you're
your own person. Obviously you have a different name, different voice,
different look, whatever. Yeah, but am I so? Am I unique?
Am I that unique? You know? I have one bit,
the Fat Fonzi bit, which works really well and it's funny.
(06:06):
I have, you know, bits that do work. All my
bits work. It's not like I'm like, oh, these don't
work or they don't really play that well, or they
don't really do what I want. You know, what is
it that I should be doing? And I'm wondering. Am
I Am I sacrificing great comedy for safe comedy? Right?
(06:28):
Am I being extra safe? Am I being too thoughtful?
Am I not being wild enough? I mean, I'm not
gonna go dirty or anything like that. It's not what
I'm saying, But I'm like, am I not being aggressive enough?
Am I not being Am I not standing out enough?
I don't know? I would I I would love to
hear feedback. You know, you guys can shoot me an email,
let me know, or pop drop me a DM on
(06:48):
on Instagram, whatever it is, you know, like, let me know,
because it's like I want to know. Am I actually
doing something worthwhile? Or am I just being you know,
doing a great, a good thing. I don't know, does
that make sense? I don't know if any if that's
(07:09):
making sense to anybody or else. It's just me being
hyper critical and self aware, you know, you know? Or
am I overthinking things? You know? So I don't know.
It feels like I could be doing something better, But
(07:33):
I don't know if I'm not doing something now, am
I not being good enough at what I do? I
don't know. I know this is a rambling episode. I apologize.
So that's where That's kind of where I'm at. I
am working on new jokes. While I'm home, I'm gonna
be working on new stuff. We're gonna head back out
(07:53):
at the end of at the end of May, so
we'll be in Crownpoint, Indiana, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Lombard, Illinois,
doing two shows early in the late show there. So
those will be May twenty nine through May thirty. First,
(08:14):
then we'll be coming home, and then we'll be going
down to like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and then another run
through Texas and New Mexico and then finally for the
end for ending out June will be in Ohio, Indiana,
and Indiana and then part of Pennsylvania again. So hopefully
you guys can come out and see us. If you're listening,
if you want to see my stand up, I would
(08:34):
really appreciate it. It's been good runs. These other ones
are going to be good short runs, which I'm glad
because I want to be able to have some short
short runs for a little while, you know, three four
days something like that, and just come home, three four days,
come home, three four days, come home. I guess the
twentieth one through the eighth. That's that's a longer run.
Looks like we might be adding some shows there too,
(08:56):
but I'm hoping that we can have a good run.
So I don't know what is what what do you
think about when you do comedy or what is your process?
I wo'd love to hear from you guys. Let me know,
shoot me a message, tell me you know, hey, this
is what I think about when I write a joke,
or this is the type of person I try to
(09:16):
be on stage because I just try to be me, right,
I'm not trying to be somebody else. I'm not trying
to be the next Louis or the next Gaffigan or
the next Brian Reagan, or the next Bilberg or the
next whatever. I'm trying to be the next anything. I'm
trying to be me. I'm trying to relate my silly
experiences and my funny point of view in my life
(09:37):
to everyone else, and then hopefully it's relatable to them.
And that's kind of it. It might, But I'm worried
that if I don't say something different, if I'm not
being you know, Matt Rife or Andrew Schultz or something
like that, I'm not pushing those boundaries. Am I really
doing anything? You know? A forty year old guy who
(10:01):
wants to hear from a forty year old guy. I
don't know some of you do because you listen to
this podcast, but who wants to listen to it from stage?
Is it important? You know? And it really made me
think am I doing the right thing? Or should I
be focusing on something else? Because I don't know if
I don't know how much you guys know, and I
don't know how much I've shared, and maybe I haven't
shared enough. But uh, if I broke down to you
(10:23):
what I do every day, you know I'm writing projects,
for people. I just finished a video game project for somebody.
I'm working on a pilot TV pilot for somebody, working
on video game audio and jokes for another project I'm
trying to create. I don't know if you guys want
this either. Well, let me ask you. Would you want
me to come up with? And I thought about this
(10:47):
with a blueprint or a guide to get yourself clean
bookings so you could book your own stuff at clean places, churches,
things outside of a comedy club, churches, you know, retirement homes,
which I did last year and made a ton of money.
Corporate gigs, you know, family functions, school functions, all those
(11:08):
like a how to guide or a course on how
to do that? Let me know, shoot me an email,
shoot being email James D. Creviston at gmail dot com
should be an email. Would you be interested in that?
Is this something that you guys want? You know? I'm
hearing two different signs of this from some people. I'm like,
I'm hearing why would anyone want that? That's stupid? But
I'm thinking I made money that way and I'm not famous.
(11:31):
Why would I not want to share that and help
somebody else get money and get paid? You know, I
don't know. Sorry, I swelled water down the wrong pipe.
What is you know, is that something you'd be interested in?
(11:51):
A guide to where to go, who to talk to,
email templates, attracting sheet, you know, what to say, all
those kind of things, phone template, because sadly a lot
of these places not only do email, but that you
follow up on phone or your phone, get an email, email,
then follow up again on phone. It's a process, you know.
(12:11):
But in two weeks I was able to book a
bunch of and this is and I again, I just
wanted to try it. I want to see how many
retirement homes, old folks homes, whatever you call them, retirement communities, whatever,
whatever your name you want to call them. How many
of those I could book just calling for like a week.
And I ended the book in like twenty five. And
(12:34):
I was making anywhere from one fifty to four hundred
bucks per show. And they were during the day, you know,
so in the afternoon or whatever. So I could still
go do club shows at night or two other shows
at night, but I was making something during the day.
How nice would it be to make you know, two
hundred three hundred bucks, you know, one fifty to four
hundred bucks every you know, two days a week or whatever,
(12:57):
so it's eight hundred bucks or three hundred bucks every week,
and just then put those on, you know, quarterly things
like hey, quarterly, I'll come out and do a show,
or every six months, I'll come out and do a show.
Once you do well, and once you have video and
once you have stuff you can get in there and
then and then a lot of those communities are they're
(13:18):
like a group. So there's like there's like the same
company owns like twelve of them within a one hundred
mile radius of you, and you could be doing them.
You do one a month and rotate back through. So
you have those booked every month, and then you have
another ones booked every month, and then whatever you can
end up doing it. It'll take a little planning. But
then the other thing is I've been asked to do
(13:39):
school fundraisers and school pta things and ceremonies and awards
things and speeches, like there is a lot that people
want and is that something that you guys would be
interested in if I created that? Because I'm hearing from
some people that's a stupid idea. Nobody's gonna buy that.
(14:04):
And I'm not even talking about making it expensive. I'm
talking less than a hundred bucks for sure. But it
will give you everything you need to do that If
I sold it to you for one hundred bucks or whatever,
ninety seven dollars and you turned around and made a
hundred and fifty bucks off of it, you didn't lose anything.
And I know that you can make one hundred and
fifty bucks easily doing it one time. Are you guys
(14:25):
what booking? And you make your money back? You know?
You know I sold for two hundred bucks one to
two bookings, you make your money back. I don't think
that's a bad proposition, and I feel like that's something
that a lot of comedians could use. The problem is
a lot of comedians don't know how to be their
own business. They don't know how to go out there
and hustle. And if I give you a guide book
(14:45):
to it, will you use it? Is that something you
guys will do? You know? Shoot me an email, let
me know I'm really be interested, or shoot me a
DM on Instagram. Whatever it is. I think there's something
there and I have part of it built, But is it?
Is it something people want? I don't? And so these
are questions that this is what a lot of time
(15:07):
on the road and a lot of time in a
hotel room and a lot of time with your thoughts does.
So I'm very excited for all of you who listen.
I'm very excited for any of you who come out
the shows. Shout out to you for coming out. I
really appreciate it. I hope that you're doing well. Let
me know, let me know an think if you think
I should move forward on. This is something I will
wholeheartedly put my heart and soul into to create for
(15:28):
you guys. If one person emails me, great, If nobody
emails me, fine, no worries. But I hope that at
lea should get something out of this podcast. Hopefully you
get something out of the Queen Comedian pro tips if
you're not subscribed on that on substack, go and subscribe,
it's free. Go do that should be in the show notes.
(15:48):
And I hope that you're out there with living your
dreams and do what you want, because that's what I'm
trying to do. And I'm hope you then I making
the world a better place through comedy, through this podcast,
through everything that I do, and you guys are awesome.
Thank you so much for listening, and I'll talk to
you soon. Bye mm hmmm.
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