Greg Fitzsimmons: For me what’s hard is that now I think
there was a shift. It used to be you just did stand-up and if you were funny
they moved you up to be the feature. And if you were funnier than the headliner
you became the headliner. And people came to the clubs and now its like you
have to tweet and do podcasts and, you know, send out, you know, do so much
free radio and stuff to… and so you don’t have that time for the joke writing
and the creative part and the laying around and going to movies with friends
where material comes from.
Merrill Markoe: Well you don’t really have to tweet and do
podcasts, do you?
GF: Sure you do. Oh my… You cannot… Nobody goes to a comedy
club anymore. They used to say, “Hey, it’s the Denver Comedy Works, great club,
I got a date, let’s go.” Now its like… Its all hard tickets. They go to see
Greg Fitzsimmons and there’s nobody in there that just came into the club. Its
like selling theater.
MM: Huh…
GF: So you really gotta push… the business is slow.
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