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Boston Comedy Rooms vs. Coddled LA Audiences
from It Ends Bad (with Yannis Pappas) · #67
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4 minThey contrast tough, real audiences in Dorchester and Boston clubs with soft, coddled LA crowds who reward inoffensive material, then transition into how LA development executives are rich kids who couldn't cut it in finance or medicine and became talent agents instead.
- 13:51Tim contrasts New York's obsession with historical landmarks and cultural heritage to LA's indifference to the past.
- 14:59LA development meetings feature only people aged 25 to 40; anyone older either owns a studio or has disappeared.
- 15:42Development people in entertainment genuinely cannot explain why some people make money and succeed in the business.
- 16:02Rich kids who lack discipline to succeed in finance, tech, or law go into entertainment instead because they're good-looking and bored.
- 16:53These development executives want a profile picture on an SNL soundstage to show their wealthy peers back home that they work in show business.
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