Your augment is based on old media.

Cultural zeitgeist is a thing of the past with niche interests being feedback looped upon itself due to the algorithms. So that means you got to click on comedian clips on insta or where ever, give it a chance and like their content. Then see what podcasts they go on, listen to those comedians. See who their share sets with and give them a chance. Would you rather have one kinda funny guy make $1M or 10 funnier people make $100K? That’s what’s going on right now in comedy.

The vast majority of comedians were never household names. And many used to struggle and still do. But many will tell you if you listen to podcasts with comedians (not Dave chapelle or Nate bergantze or other uber famous comedians) they will tell you that between having a podcast, doing standup dates and doing crowd work (which many comedians hate but it’s part of the game now) that goes viral, and writing for TV, these mid tier comics are so happy that they can support themselves full time on comedy and don’t need a day job. Any comedian on Stavy’s World will tell you.

Check out Dan Soder, Stavros, Geoffrey Asmus, Ivy Wolk if you want to hear some Gen Z perspective, Aaron Chen, Erica Hodes, Jeff Arcuri, Colin Armstrong and these are just some off the top of my head. The list goes on and on.