How Clubhouse Is Keeping Stand-Up Comedy Alive During the Pandemic

Like many comics earlier this year, Leah Lamarr had a problem: The stand-up comedy world was on life support, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic closing down clubs and keeping performers off stage. This was bad news not only for comedians, who depend on the art form to make a living, but also for comedy-lovers who have been unable to get their fix live for nearly a year. “I’m a comic, I love to perform,” Lamarr recently told TheWrap. “And people need comedy as a relief.” That’s why, at the start of 2021, she decided to take a shot and see if Clubhouse, her new favorite app, could help ease the pain. The new app, she said, had already won her over as a great place to hear compelling conversations, especially when it came to business and entertainment topics. Why couldn’t it be that way for stand-up comedy, she thought. That led her to team up with her friend, Beyond Media founder Nicole Behnam, to launch the Clubhouse Comedy Live Standup Show, a bi-weekly Clubhouse room with two goals in mind: 1) make people laugh, and 2) recreate the comedy club atmosphere to the best of their ability on an audio-only...

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