Ask Me Anything 11 w/ Barry Katz

Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

Barry Katz

Comedy

4.8 • 946 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Comedy talent manager Barry Katz provides a beacon of tough love and knowledge for anyone trying to navigate the extremely tough industry of stand-up comedy and entertainment. In this Ask Me Anything episode of Industry Standard, Barry takes your questions, and shares what makes a good stand-up premise, the road to success in stand-up comedy, and what makes people stand out as comics and entertainers. Blueprint for Success (https://barrykatz.com/blueprint) Are you a comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, manager, host, podcaster or agent? Would you like personalized help to reach all of your goals in the entertainment business? Click the link to learn more & join our FREE industry networking group full of decades of experience!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard, the Ask Me Anything
0:11.0	addition.
0:12.0	We do these once a month.
0:15.0	I never did them before, but they seem to be something that means something to all of you.
0:23.0	And I'm very, very grateful that you like them.
0:26.1	And what happens is I get a bunch of questions.
0:30.0	There's a bunch of them on these cards.
0:33.1	And I just randomly select one.
0:36.7	And I don't know what the questions are and I haven't gone over them.
0:44.0	I haven't briefed myself.
0:46.4	I haven't taken notes and putting stuff together of how to answer them.
0:52.7	I always like to be an instinct person and just go with what's on my mind,
0:57.4	and that's what I'm going to do here. And so I hope you enjoy this episode as much as the other
1:02.6	ones. If you need to reach me, you can do so at Barry Katz and Instagram or Twitter, or as they
1:08.2	say, X. Or you can go on my website at Barrycats.com. Or you can go on my website at barrycats.com or you can stay here and
1:16.7	subscribe to this podcast on the YouTube channel here and I'd love to have you watch a bunch of stuff
1:25.7	here. It's very inspirational.
1:27.7	A lot of these people who I've interviewed have a lot of great things to say.
1:31.9	And I'm hoping that they help you avoid the same kind of mistakes that maybe I made, other artists made.
1:42.2	And so without further ado, let's get started.
1:48.4	First question from Marcus in El Cajon, California.
1:55.0	Do you believe that the goal of everyone that wants to be a stand-up comedian should be to sell tickets and get on the road? That's a great question. Being a stand-up comedian means a lot of different things, and I don't
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