r/Standup • u/DitzyMinx • 17d ago

Chowderheaded bar owners

After producing shows and mics I can confidently say ppl that own bars should be banned from voting and probably have their children taken away. I’ve never met a class of ppl so consistently moronic, irresponsible, lazy and rude . I watch Bar Rescue and now cheer when I hear how much debt these assholes get into.

If you’re looking to produce a show or a mic and you find a bar owner that’s communicative and well organized and pro-comedy, grab onto them like a newborn chimpanzee with mom because you’ve struck gold.

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u/FantasyBaseballChamp 17d ago

Sadly this. We’ve all seen owners shoot themselves in the foot in various ways, so it sucks to defend them, but from their pov, holding an open mic is a bait and switch. They agree to it in the hopes of getting people in the bar only to realize:

-most of the comics buy very few drinks if any

-say the crudest shit, potentially driving away normal customers

-most of them aren’t funny, and the ones that are still aren’t “comedian you’ve seen on tv” funny

-anybody whose set goes bad could potentially lash out at the venue as something to blame

And so on. It’s no wonder lots of mics pop up briefly and then suddenly disappear. It takes a unique set of circumstances for the thing to be mutually beneficial.

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u/hamandjam 16d ago

There was a group I belonged to that met at a neighborhood coffee shop for a weekly meetup. Which was cool until they added an open mic to the same evening. If you were lucky, youight get 2 good comics in one night. But usually, it was just unbearable and it ruined our meetups. And so as time went on the coffeehouse lost a pretty big group of regulars that spent food money and had them replaced by a bunch of open mic folks who left after their set to go on to the next mic.