Shayne Smith

And now everyone's just tired.

So when Pete Holmes is like, God, it's real, suck it.

You're like, good for him.

I bet even atheists are like, fun, cool.

You know, good.

That he's like being honest with himself.

And like, just people want to see authenticity.

Even if it hurts them.

Are comedy clubs springing up in a way that they weren't 30 years ago?

Are you hearing of new comedy clubs getting started?

Or is it more just the ones that are there are becoming more popular?

Because we said in our conversation that because of AI, there's going to be a heightened demand for in-person performance.

To me, it seems like, well, comedy is the perfect thing.

You just need a microphone, so it's easy enough to do, and you can gather people together.

Sometimes you don't even need that.

Yeah, make them laugh, make them feel like humans.

Yeah, my best show I've ever done was a house show with no mic.

But yeah, I think that comedy was having a renaissance a couple years ago, and everyone was mind blown, especially us comedians, because it was dipped for a while.

TV died, and then every comic was like, I guess we don't have careers now?

That sucks.