With comedy venues – hit hard by the pandemic – reopening in England and Scotland, NextUp’s Sarah Henley argues that online audiences are key to the industry’s future
Telling jokes to live audiences over Zoom has offered an alternative for standup comics since comedy clubs shut last year.
It has also presented them with a new set of occupational hazards, as the comedian Andrew Maxwell discovered during an online gig where he got momentarily upstaged by an audience member’s cat showing its bum to the webcam.
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With comedy venues – hit hard by the pandemic – reopening in England and Scotland, NextUp’s Sarah Henley argues that online audiences are key to the industry’s future
Telling jokes to live audiences over Zoom has offered an alternative for standup comics since comedy clubs shut last year.
It has also presented them with a new set of occupational hazards, as the comedian Andrew Maxwell discovered during an online gig where he got momentarily upstaged by an audience member’s cat showing its bum to the webcam. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian