Louis Faranda
Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz
Barry Katz
4.8 • 946 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Barry sits down with Louis Faranda, the esteemed talent buyer of the iconic Carolines Comedy Night Club, for an engaging conversation about the evolution of the stand-up comedy industry. Louis offers a captivating glimpse into the vibrant early days of the New York comedy scene, recounting his journey from Catch a Rising Star to his tenure at Carolines and his experiences curating some of the industry's most renowned comedy festivals. Together, they reflect on the shifting landscape of comedy over the years, touching on both legendary figures and rising stars, including Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Adam Sandler, Sam Morril, and Mark Normand.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard with me, Barry Katz. |
| 0:05.9 | Hope you're doing well. It's 2025, starting a new year, trying to figure out how to navigate |
| 0:15.9 | the way this crazy world is and still make a difference. I'm sure all of you want to make a difference and want to |
| 0:26.2 | do things in this world that pay it forward. And I certainly am somebody who loves to be around |
| 0:35.0 | people who make it their priority to be that kind of person. |
| 0:41.4 | And one of those people that I know is my guest today, Louis Ferranda. You may know the name if |
| 0:49.2 | you're in the business, because if you don't, then you've been living under a rock for the last 35 years. |
| 0:57.2 | If you're not in the business, well, you're not going to know him, but after this podcast, |
| 1:03.1 | you're not only going to know him. You're going to love him. Before I get started, I just |
| 1:08.7 | want to let you know that if you need to reach me, you can do so |
| 1:11.1 | at Barry Cats and Instagram or Twitter or X, as they call it. |
| 1:16.7 | And if you need to reach me on my website, you can do so at Barrycats.com. |
| 1:22.6 | And also, if you want to watch the YouTube channel channel this episode or other episodes that are really |
| 1:29.2 | really impactful you can do so there on the YouTube channel and just press subscribe and |
| 1:35.4 | have a ball that's a it's an incredible amount of content that uh i believe is very very |
| 1:42.9 | valuable for anybody in this business. |
| 1:46.9 | And talk about valuable, you talk about Louis Ferranda. |
| 1:51.4 | This is a guy I've known my entire career, |
| 1:54.4 | and he's always been a guy who was so passionate about his craft, |
| 2:07.2 | a guy who I met for the first time at the old Catcher Rising Star on the Upper East Side where he was booking everybody from Jerry Seinfeld to Larry David to the late Gilbert Godfried, as well as a young Jay Moore, Adam Sandler, and a who's who of everybody in the |
| 2:23.5 | business. |
| 2:25.0 | Incredible eye for talent. |
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