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Comedy Career Ups and Downs: Yannis, Chris D, and Fear of Decline
from Bastard Radio | The Tim Dillon Show #372 · #372
2 min
Discussion of how comedy careers rise and fall in cycles, citing Yannis's YouTube-to-half-hour trajectory and Chris D's career swings through Guy Code and Gas Digital.
- Tim explains the stakes of a comedy competition where showing up solo meant facing brand new comics with no built-in support.
- Winning an audience vote led to being passed at the club and immediately pushed into another round of competition the following week.
- MySpace comedy pages were a real networking tool in the early era; comedians like Steve Trevino and Yannis used them to add anyone with a comedian page.
- The business is full of people who dipped a toe into comedy before there was money in it, and many would have been huge if they'd stuck with it.
- Yannis had moments of momentum on YouTube but then shifted to doing half-hour specials and other conventional work.
- Comedy careers are peaks and valleys; Yannis went up, came down, and is now killing it again.
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