Stand Up Comedy
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
More or Less 
Masters of Scale 
My First Million 
All-In
4 statements about Stand Up Comedy, every show
Hinchcliffe: Austin is without question the best city for comedy
“There's no question about it. It's Austin, Texas.”
Sam Lessin: Stand-up comedy crushes stadium concert tours on margins
“It's like comedy is so cheap to make that it's so high margin, right? Like, that's kind of the beauty of comedy, right? Is like, you think about like staging like a Taylor Swift show versus some dude with a microphone, right? It's like, oh, the microphone guy …”
Minhaj: Combining stand-up, storytelling, and theater is his creative elixir
“Putting together, mixing stand-up comedy, storytelling, and theater, that to me was my elixir.”
Matt Ruby: Audience room engagement can validate an idea before punchlines land
“Something might not get a laugh, but you can feel in the room that you've hit on something. You have an idea that might be captivating to people or provocative or has them on the edge of their seat waiting to see where you're going with it. And then even if yo…”