Comedy FAQs and Answers: How the Stand-up Biz Really Works

Dave Attell: On taping your show, the way I put it is this way, okay? You bomb in front of the audience — and then you get to hear yourself in front of the audience. So for as much misery as you doled out, you have to take it the next day, hungover somewhere, sitting and drinking coffee.

I guess what they would say is it’s kind of like with the Gulf War. You get to see the camera in the bomb, you know? But you’re the bomb and you get to see it, like, land and if it went in right or didn’t go in right. So that’s why I tape. You get to see what went wrong. You get to hear what went wrong.

Comedy FAQs and Answers: How the Stand-up Biz Really Works By Dave Schwensen