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Bad Comedy Venues

From Jan McInnis | Part of the Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes series | 03:33

Comedians are put on all sorts of unusual stages, but comedy doesn’t really work everywhere! The jokes might be great and the crowd might be awesome, but certain venues still stink for doing comedy! Jan shares her story of one of the worst places for a comedian to perform in. How does she know it’s the worst place? She performed there!

Playing: Bad Comedy Venues
From: Jan McInnis

Comedian_stories_podcast_small Comedians are put on all sorts of unusual stages, but comedy doesn’t really work everywhere! The jokes might be great and the crowd might be awesome, but certain venues still stink for doing comedy! Jan shares her story of one of the worst places for a comedian to perform in. How does she know it’s the worst place? She performed there!

The Worst Comedy Bombing

From Jan McInnis | Part of the Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes series | 04:21

Comedians don’t always have good shows, and they know that. But all bombing is not equal. . . sometimes it’s a little worse that others. Here’s a story from Jan’s early career. . . where she tanked big time.

Playing: The Worst Comedy Bombing
From: Jan McInnis

Comedian_stories_podcast_small Comedians don’t always have good shows, and they know that. But all bombing is not equal. . . sometimes it’s a little worse that others. Here’s a story from Jan’s early career. . . where she tanked big time.

Jay Leno Comedy Challenge in the 90's

From Jan McInnis | Part of the Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes series | 04:46

The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put an unknown comedian on the Tonight Show stage with Jay Leno. Here’s how it went down for Jan . . .it just shows that being naïve isn’t always bad!

Playing: Jay Leno Comedy Challenge in the 90's
From: Jan McInnis

Comedian_stories_podcast_small

The Jay Leno Comedy Challenge launched many wannabe comedians into their comedy careers, and Jan is one of them. It was a nationwide search to put an unknown comedian on the Tonight Show stage with Jay Leno. Here’s how it went down for Jan . . .it just shows that being naïve isn’t always bad!

Comedy and the Fairmont Hotel (comedy accommodations)

From Jan McInnis | Part of the Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes series | 04:38

Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leave the safe things that you like, and put up with some stuff you don’t like, to get to what you really, really like!

Playing: Comedy and the Fairmont Hotel (comedy accommodations)
From: Jan McInnis

Comedian_stories_podcast_small

Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leave the safe things that you like, and put up with some stuff you don’t like, to get to what you really, really like!

My First Big Comedy Emcee Gig

From Jan McInnis | Part of the Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes series | 04:29

Emceeing in a comedy club is the first step in your career. And you think you’re ready to emcee in the big clubs with 5 minutes of material and 2 months of stage time? Well, maybe not. Jan found out the hard way!!

Playing: My First Big Comedy Emcee Gig
From: Jan McInnis

Comedian_stories_podcast_small

Emceeing in a comedy club is the first step in your career. And you think you’re ready to emcee in the big clubs with 5 minutes of material and 2 months of stage time? Well, maybe not. Jan found out the hard way!!

Baby Gifts Joke

From Jan McInnis | Part of the Clean Comedy Clips series | :17

Comedian Jan McInnis shares clean comedy from her comedy show. She is currently touring theatres in the Baby Boomer Comedy Show. www.TheWorkLady.com

Playing: Baby Gifts Joke
From: Jan McInnis