Charley Crockett

You have to have talent.

Every comedy community, the only way it works is you have to have a lot of great comics that live in that town.

It's the only way it works.

And then we feed off of each other.

There's no lone wolves in comedy.

Comedy, it's only iron sharpens iron.

There's no best comic in the world living in Pittsburgh.

doesn't exist, like they all live where they all, they're not in competition, but in cooperation with each other.

Like we're all inspired by each other.

You have to have that.

And so we had to have like every green light.

The comedy store had to be shut down for a solid year and a half.

All those people had to be unemployed.

I had to have all this money from Spotify.

I had to be in a place like Texas that allows you to open up and have a show indoors when everything in California was closed.

They wouldn't even let you do outdoor shows.

We weren't even allowed to do shows.

We tried to do shows in the parking lot at the Comedy Store, and they wouldn't allow us.

It was crazy.

70% of all the restaurants went under.