I'm not a New York comedy person, but I definitely feel like UCB particularly has set the comic tone out there for the last several years, what with your people going on to do pretty influential things.
Do you feel like the fact that there is a "path" for comedians to take has hurt the ability of really original people to come up? Like if they don't fit the right style to rise through UCB they won't really have that shot at larger fame and fortune? (Not to say UCB hasn't brought up some pretty original people).
Do you consider the philosophy of the UCB to be a set of "best practices" or a rule book for how to be good at being funny?
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I'm not a New York comedy person, but I definitely feel like UCB particularly has set the comic tone out there for the last several years, what with your people going on to do pretty influential things.
Do you feel like the fact that there is a "path" for comedians to take has hurt the ability of really original people to come up? Like if they don't fit the right style to rise through UCB they won't really have that shot at larger fame and fortune? (Not to say UCB hasn't brought up some pretty original people).
Do you consider the philosophy of the UCB to be a set of "best practices" or a rule book for how to be good at being funny?
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