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I wrote this blog thing<\/a> in 2012 (was I even born then?) and most of it still holds up. It’s about ways that the comedy industry loses value. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was pretty agressive in there. I was apocalyptic. I don’t feel that way anymore. I feel like there’s value in anything that’s surviving. There might not be enough pie pieces for everyone involved, but there’s always a way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A quick definition: to me, fun<\/strong> is great entertainment. Even a great sad movie is fun in that engages and gets you involved in an experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What sucks and is expensive?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everyone shopped for a vacuum cleaner by price. They all do the job and you hide them in your closet. They’re not a status symbol and there’s very little reason to get the best. Along comes Dyson. With the ludicrous idea of making an expensive cleaning product, he takes over! There was little value in a “vacuum” but tremendous value in other aspects he offered : health, love of gadgetry, status, the promise of convenience, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since I started performing as a little kid, I cared about fun. I wanted the audience to have fun. Maximum fun. I kept pushing it, I kept marketing it. The first slogan for Scot Nery’s Boobietrap<\/a> was “a show that’s FUN!” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No really! It’s more fun than everything else! How about now? You wanna pay for it now?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Parallel to this journey I watched some other forms of entertainment find a lot of financial success. Things that weren’t fun. Things that were tedious, anxiety causing, or boring (e.g. selfie museums).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came to the conclusion that fun has little-to-no financial value to people. The bummer was, that was my expertise. Fun drove me. Fun was important for me to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why’s fun cheap?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I don’t totally know. Maybe… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Because fun can be had in a million ways. We can have fun in a free park or throwing bags of water off a balcony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Because adults don’t embrace their need for fun. It’s not supported. It’s something you do guiltily when you’re shirking your responsibility as a real member of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.5) We have this idea of “guilty pleasures.” We don’t have a way to promote our straight up “pleasures”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s design the package for fun stuff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We can trick people into really enjoying themselves and paying for fun. We just need to accept that they’re probably not going to pay for the fun directly. Here are some things to consider for the way we package fun entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n