According to Pollstar, eight of the 100 top-grossing tours at midyear were those of comedians.
Sources include Pollstar, RIAA, promoters, managers, lawyers and some of the artists themselves.
The financial benefits of the award can be tremendous for big touring acts as well, according to concert data provider Pollstar.
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Unlike a touring rock band, a comedy tour requires little by way of overhead, adding to profits, says Pollstar Editor Gary Bongiovanni.
The totals were compiled with the help of data from Pollstar, RIAA and others, in addition to interviews with managers, lawyers and concert promoters.
Pollstar, the firm that monitors concert attendance, has reported that ticket sales for the top 50 acts were down 15% in the first six months of 2001.
The totals were compiled with the help of data from Pollstar, RIAA and others, as well as interviews with industry insiders including managers, publicists, agents and some of the musicians themselves.
Though his short-lived Comedy Central series took a ratings tumble at this time last year, concert tracker Pollstar named him North America's top touring comic for the second year in a row.
Working to the advantage of these and other comics, says Pollstar Editor-in-Chief Gary Bongiovanni, is that compared to music acts, their comparatively modest overhead allows them to tour relatively economically and offer lower ticket prices.
And they're not the only ones scoring big bucks to grab laughs on the road: Six of the 100 top-grossing tours at midyear belonged to comedians, according to Pollstar, a trade magazine that tracks the concert industry.
The year's biggest concert tours made more money at the box office than they did in 2010, thanks to sharp price increases that offset declines in the number of tickets sold, according to Pollstar, a trade magazine.
What's more, Rosen is returning at a time when the live-events business is drooping badly--for the first half of 2010 ticket sales for the top 100 concert tours in North America slipped nearly 12%, according to trade magazine Pollstar.
Accoring to Pollstar, Fun. will be touring pretty aggressively for the next few months in places like Australia and Italy but also in the U.S. Here in the States though they are playing smaller venues like the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and Hudson River Park in New York.
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