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| Issues | 26 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Netflix Passed. Joe DeRosa Put Up 800K Views. Then Netflix Came Back.
Joe DeRosa had every reason to believe the entertainment business had made up its mind about him.
He was cast in the pilot for CBS sitcom “Living Biblically” and booked for 10 episodes, only to have his character cut two weeks before produ...
New Rules for Breaking Comedians
Every June, Emilio Savone and his business partners start to worry that something is wrong with their comedy clubs.
Sales slow down. The temptation is to cut costs or abandon whatever new project they have taken on. Then September arrives...
How He Built Diplo
Kevin Kusatsu managed Diplo for well over a decade. He never signed a contract with him. Not one page, ever.
Kevin Kusatsu
In September 2006, Diplo opened a Wired magazine benefit at Irving Plaza, a 1,200-capacity club in Manhattan. Girl...
Chelsea Handler Has A Pride Problem
When a joke lands and one person gets offended, something is being protected.
A wound. A status. A version of themselves they cannot afford to have touched. The offence is the alarm going off around the thing they are guarding.
C.S. Lewi...
Netflix Will Not Sell A Single Ticket
The Netflix special no longer sells a single ticket.
Emilio Savone owns five comedy clubs in New York, he runs a global ticketing platform and operates an in-house record label and manages a roster of comedy heavyweights. He is the first r...
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Former founder & CEO of Rolling Stone & Variety Australia (sold 2024). Artist manager for Simone Giertz, Christian Hull, Poppy Reid & Laura Kampf
Stand up comic. Silver tongue. Iron jaw \ud83d\udc80 Love a bit of chaos. \ud83d\udd25
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