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Chrissie Mayr Podcast

The mic in a basement studio reaches more people than a week of club sets, and it comes with no gatekeeper. That shift deserves a real conversation about control, monetization and burnout.

Podcasting gave performers a direct line that clubs never could

Comedy used to be a slow climb through clubs and late-night sets. Now a single clip can define a comic's audience overnight. Worth unpacking what that changes about material, risk-taking and who gets discovered.

The club-to-clip pipeline: how stand-up careers get built differently now

Late nights, travel, alcohol-soaked green rooms and the comedown after a set — the toll is rarely discussed honestly.

What does the mental grind of constant performance do to a person?

Whether a comic writes differently knowing a bit could get screenshotted, and whether the audience rewards the risk or punishes it.

Has the backlash economy changed what jokes are worth telling?

Where the ambition sits once the clips are working and the audience is showing up.

What's the next thing worth building — a special, a tour, a business?

Crowd work is the most exposed part of the job — a live test of nerve, timing and whether you can turn an interruption into material.

How do you handle a heckler without losing the room?

Between the first open mic and the first sold-out theater run, what fills the calendar — the road gigs, the day jobs, the rooms that don't pay.

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