Teresa Strasser

I actually got into it with my agent because my agent basically said, look, he represents Jon Stewart and he represents Stephen Colbert and he represents a lot of guys who go out and do a lot of live shows.

And he said...

The industry is really bad right now.

The business is really bad.

Even guys like Jon Stewart are having trouble selling tickets.

I don't know.

Leno had to cancel a show or had to cancel his love ride this year and so on and so forth.

So not only are ticket sales and comedy ticket sales sort of in the toilet, but the benefit stuff goes too.

When the economy goes bad, let's face it, people don't have $100 to see Dana Gould.

That's the bottom line.

So he basically said...

You guys are going to try to do a 1,250-seat venue at $100 a ticket.

It ain't going to work.

You're going to embarrass yourself.

You're going to embarrass the talent.

You better think this over.

And I said it, but in a much more insulting way.

That's a nice version.

I said, we're few, but we're proud.

We have a very dedicated audience, and I think they're going to step up and come through for us.