I’m friends with a working comedian and so get to see their private FB posts to other comedians about such topics as LCK. The over all consensus from what i have observed is that the vast majority (male and female) are sick of certain comedians that are predators getting an unlimited number of second chances because they generate a lot of ticket sales. While talented new people that are not predators get skipped over repeatedly.
Actually an even bigger problem seems to be for every big name comedian that is a predator there are many many more predators in every city that own the comedy clubs, or do the booking or are agents that prey on people in the scene. They stick out for other predators and black list people that speak out. But since these people don’t have the broad name recognition they don’t suffer the same internet outrage that they deserve. The comedians all walk a fine line between rage at the toxicity of the local scenes and wanting to work and feed their families. They try and warn others about who to avoid and to support each other in times of need but it all just really seem dysfunctional and even people with good intentions have a hard time rallying together.
I’m just a fly on the wall in these threads and am not really knowledgeable on the scene to evaluate specifics but what i describe above is sort of the abstract of every thread.
