If live comedy is going global, its international capital remains London, where stand-up is thriving.
But audiences are always clamouring for a good true story, as evidenced by live comedy, the memoir glut and so-called reality television.
He soon began collecting other old slides, and turned his passion into a live comedy act that both makes fun of and celebrates the earnest and often tacky tastes of a bygone American era.
He spent the next couple of months going to live comedy gigs and studying comedians like Bill Hicks on YouTube before signing up to do a live stand-up performance himself at a local comedy club.
"To stay on top in this economy, you've got to work a lot harder, " says Live Nation Comedy President Geof Wills of a business he calls Darwinian.
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There will also be productions of Pinter's A Slight Ache - one of his early one-act plays, Strindberg's Miss Julie and Philip Pullman's Clockwork, as well as live music and comedy.
Although Disney acquired LucasArts on October 30, 2012, Disney has made some sweeping changes gradually, such as cancelling the long-running Cartoon Network television show, The Clone Wars, as well as the upcoming live-action comedy Detours in mid March.
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Currently in its third season, over-18s can access the museum after hours on Tuesday nights (from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm) for live music, comedy performances, talks, art and drinks, all set against a spectacular backdrop of dinosaur skeletons, precious gemstones and native animals.
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While the music business struggles to find new acts that will draw fans to live shows, the comedy world is filling the gap.
Cape Town's nightlife also embraces cabaret and comedy venues, and live music gigs with jazz, rock and pop are all popular.
Facebook founder and billionaire bachelor Mark Zuckerberg made a similar move earlier this year when he appeared on sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
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Live studio audiences can be really tough because they make these demands on comedy that aren't really the funniest things but seem to be because there's a live energy going.
Current 8:30 p.m. resident "Up All Night" will go on hiatus while the single-camera comedy transforms into a multi-camera comedy that's shot in front of a live audience.
In the whole country, there's only one dedicated comedy club, and that's not in the town that I live in.
The people behind Jersey Live also organised the Folklore festival in 2012, a mixed media event including poetry, comedy and music.
Touchy Feely tells the story of a massage therapist unable to do her job when she suddenly has an aversion to bodily contact, while Jill Soloway's Afternoon Delight is a dark comedy about a lost LA housewife who takes in a young stripper as a live-in nanny.
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