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Long Island Comedy Club Lore: Ties, Chicken Sandwiches, and Elderly New Faces
from A Can of Sweetened Honey · #84
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3 minTim recounts Governor's Comedy Club dress code stories, an old Montreal audition full of elderly "new faces" comics, and riffs on the club owner's disdain for Seinfeld ordering half a chicken sandwich.
- 8:01Tim prefaces discussion of a Long Island comedy club reality show pitch by noting he works the room and doesn't want to disrespect the people involved.
- 8:41The people who made this show no longer even own the club.
- 8:59A friend told Tim the show is actually good because the characters are real and their desperation to make it is believable.
- 9:20Tim observes there's not one white person in the entire show except the security guard, who they call House.
- 9:41The only non-white person in the pitch being called House raises questions about what that nickname actually means.
- 9:59The reality show pitch did not get picked up, made about a year ago during the reality TV boom.
- 10:24Long Island is typically a decade late to trends, and these people were no exception with their reality show concept.
- 10:38They were secretive and hush-hush about the project, wanting it to actually work rather than leaking their ideas.
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