Response to Variety’s ‘Why standups are sitting out primetime’: How bedraggled can stand-up be?

by Dylan P. Gadino

Variety’s Brian Lowry posted a column titled “Why standups are sitting out primetime” last Friday, which partly explored the idea that as of late, comedians have been landing game show host jobs as opposed to sitcom deals. I say “partly” because the piece was loaded with amazingly inaccurate rhetoric about what a sorry state stand-up [...]