All of those are more feasible and frequent outside of L. These independent shows are just great rooms that offer environments to try out new material and succeed or fail in front of supportive audiences who are onboard for it all. It took me two years before I ever made a single dime doing comedy in Los Angeles, and even then, it was a few hundred bucks for a rare local college gig. Most shows in L. If The Hollywood Reporter was also talking about TV shows, road work, commercials, unemployment benefits, allowances, and trust funds when they came up with those insane numbers, they should have been upfront and said that instead of painting a picture of audiences making it rain on newcomers.
James Fritz : Hahahahhahahahahaha. On an average one, I will make zero. Mark Agee : I think what happened is, they reverse-engineered the money totals from road headliner money, which would be the lowest-level client a CAA public appearance agent would have. But, just so people know, that is not entry-level. A beginning headliner has probably been doing comedy for a decade or so. Emily Heller : This week was an interesting one for me because I was prepping for a special taping.
For context, I have been doing stand-up for ten years. The last time I had a non-comedy day job was in , when I did some temping in New York. After a year of cobbling together an income from touring, doing warm-up for a cable show, and local gigs, in , I moved to L. A relatively low number, all things considered, thanks to my considerable privilege I never had student loans. Since I moved to L.
Which brings us to this past week! Most of the shows I do in L. Of course, TV writing accounts for most of my yearly income, and doing stand-up is what got me in the door there. The amount of money you can make doing stand-up is wildly different all the time because the way people value comedy in different settings is really arbitrary.
In my second year doing stand-up, I got a payout like that one time, and I had to fly myself across the country to get it. What I, and a lot of people in my generation of comedians, have had to learn how to do is other creative-ish work to support stand-up while we figure out how to be good at it. I work as an animator and a journalist, both of which I feel lucky to be able to do, and as a pizza-parlor employee, assistant manager of two bookstores, hip-hop radio-station board operator, fact-checker at Playboy , bagel-shop sweeper, morning-radio DJ, theater box-office ticket ripper, substitute teacher, barista, and assistant to the comptroller before that.
Username or Email Address. Remember Me. The obvious next step towards getting paid in comedy is turning it from a hobby into a career. What are your comedy goals?
Have a Netflix special or sell out Madison Square Garden? As big as your ambitions are, the goals that you need to set need to be a lot more bite sized. If you set your sights too high too fast you run the risk of hindering your motivation as you […].
Headliner Pay. I should also make it clear that the pay numbers provided below are low end numbers , meaning to say that the income a headliner level comedian can command can also be significantly influenced in a positive way based upon their experience, reputation, variety of gigs they can perform at, television appearances, number of followers and fans, etc. Not too shabby. Note: There is no one-size-fits-all pay scale for comedy club comedians. The comedian pay can vary widely for each comedy club or one night venue that hires comedians.
For headliner comedians who have the talent and skill to develop a clean act for the non-comedy club markets events, parties, fundraisers, meetings, etc. Note: There is no one-size-fits-all pay scale for corporate comedians either.
If you want to see a few examples of the type of corporate comedy pay I was able to make during my comedy career, take a moment to check out my Corporate Comedy Secrets training module on Killerstandup.
Depending on the metro area the corporate comedians lives, extensive travel is not necessarily required. In other words, a corporate comedian can work locally for years depending upon their reputation and the referral business they are able to generate.
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