Welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard with me, Barry Katz.

I love these questions and answer individual things, so I've decided to do them once a month.

I love answering questions and I love the fact that I don't really look at the questions beforehand.

So it's an improvisational answer from my experience and I hope that it serves you well.

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probably not making the same mistakes that

I made are a lot of comedians made along the way

All right first question is what makes a great

comedy room this is from Kevin in Auckland New Zealand all right

I was just in Auckland I walked by at the comedy club there there's one

comedy club in Auckland unbelievable in my mind what makes a great comedy room might not be what other people feel makes a great comedy room.

But it's normally, there's a few factors.

Number one, low ceilings.

If you have the lower the ceiling, the more the laughter gets just so enhanced and contagious.

Second thing is that the tables and chairs are set up so the audience is in closed quarters

next to each other again comedy is contagious

if you have people sitting six feet apart chances are laughter isn't going to spread but if you have

people right next to each other it's going to spread like the pandemic. It's going to make it amazing.

Next is great lighting on the stage, but not lighting that shines in the audience's

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