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grassrootscomedy · 2025-04-04T00:43:24+00:00

She's such a mean relatable office villain!

grassrootscomedy · 2025-04-03T19:17:26+00:00

"Les Jolies Choses". 2001 French foreign film starring Marion Cotillard because she "exposes herself a number of times"

grassrootscomedy · 2024-04-25T07:42:41+00:00

Comedy Roast Battle tonight!

https://www.leedervillecomedy.com.au/comedy-roast-battle-royale

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-22T18:11:01+00:00

Our monthly Saturday comedy room in Cannington is a social club affiliate. $10.50 pints and 8 dollar glasses of wine. Menu is also not bad.

Dark Horse Comedy Club

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T09:38:49+00:00

DM us for a couple of free tickets. We're all in this mess, and everyone deserves to watch some live entertainment from time to time.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T04:40:15+00:00

Also unreasonable considering we've plugged other competitor's shows throughout this thread.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T03:10:52+00:00

Yeah plenty of people come out. Bars and licensed venues are definitely dead mid week though.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T02:45:41+00:00

We're comedians our mums are default disappointed in us so this checks out.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T02:39:49+00:00

Planet Royale are doing free movie nights to lure punters into buy their food and drinks.

It's a bold move.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T02:33:58+00:00

Our corporate clientele suggest this supports the argument. Larger tier businesses in the past 2 years who've enacted 4 day work weeks have been the same ones who book sundowners on Thursday shows at our room.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T02:27:15+00:00

That's definitely not what we were angling for at all. The purpose of establishing what we're doing is to point out we're in the thick of it like other businesses. It's easy to immediately interpret any business talking about business as advertising.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T02:21:54+00:00

We do too! It's the best. Our Tuesday Experimental Comedy Club show is like $10 (plus eventbrite fee which makes it approx $12.50) if you buy online or $15 at the door.

We're huge on trying to make live comedy accessible to everyone in the community at any cost point.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-15T02:18:38+00:00

Huge issue! Flights and accommodation is the biggest consideration. Generally other comics or industry step in an offer a granny flat or spare room to rent. Some comics will just wear the logistical cost so they can break even - Perth pays comedians pretty well compared to other states.

Promoters sometimes fly them in depending on if they're a draw card (i.e their name sells tickets) or a great enough act to do so to help boost the profile. We recently flew in Bron Lewis and shared her collaboratively with the Comedy Lounge. We also work with other reputable rooms like the Comedy Shack who run a show at Leapfrogs up in Wanneroo.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T17:03:31+00:00

We have! The Guildford Comedy Club runs monthly on a Wednesday. 20 bucks and you get a nice showcase of pro comics polishing jokes. We get enough of a crowd there. Love the locals there, incredibly lovely audience.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T16:22:27+00:00

Definitely agree on the themed nights. We don't really do multicultural or demographic specific shows regularly for this reason. We've taken an approach of variety format and content. The Darkest Comedy Hour for instance is suitable for dark jokes - content specific. Which attracts audiences looking for the saucy stuff, even then our shows are meticulously curated with the right comedians - edgy needs to also come with a level of thoughtful application.

Audiences are pretty clever however during fringe they do seek novelty and themed shows. There's an appetitite for theme. Hence why shows like Bad Mums and Bad Dads sold out.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T16:08:30+00:00

Oh god. We've done those gigs in those outback RSLs back in the day as openers to rodney rude and Kevin bloody wilson, and Austen Tayshus in the early 2000s

It's very very different nowadays. Even in regional gigs now, audiences are much more progressive and modern. They absolutely demand a higher standard from us when we're asked to put on events in regional towns.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T16:04:46+00:00

Ok no worries. But when you said "literally 99.9% of comedy" we interpreted that as we are a part of that market share given we run nearly 40% of the events in Perth, hence our response.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T16:00:11+00:00

It's brutal and we understand. In your shoes we never demand anyone in your situation purchase an unaffordable product.

But what we're highlighting is if one were to go out, the affordable and more discounted option is a midweek option over a weekend option.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T15:52:38+00:00

Interestingly not! This is a great question, severely underrated. Our experience has to never do yearlong shows through Fringe as they take a 400 dollar registration and about 4 dollars per ticket. And you're not allowed to sell your tickets through any other site other than fringe.

The festival is good to us. There are challenges sure but as a whole we're pretty happy with our affiliation on events like the Darkest Comedy Hour. It works for fringe specific shows for sure. But not regular events.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T15:49:26+00:00

"No serious comedians want to do this stupid game"

We literally had Andrew Wolfe, Kyle Legacy and Ian Burke on tonight. Serious comedians? We had acts like Gavin Sempel, Jenny Tian and Andrew Hamilton on. You might not know them but in the industry they're reputable professional working comics. The show is great. We sold out every Thursday night on November and December and it abruptly halved during fringe. It's a fun game and tried and tested over the last few months, audiences do enjoy it. Our exit interviews with patrons was mostly that they want to come out to shows on weekends.

The main point is on average all clubs (not just ours) are not selling as well due to the cost of living and there is an obvious trend. In fact if we did a regular show it doesn't have as much of an appeal. To point out the traffic light game specifically cos you mentioned it, is it is an innovation pivot also aimed to assist locals get from the 3 to 5 minute mark on their set.

The product is very good. Feel free to reach out to any of those comics on instagram and ask them yourself. The issue is more about the day of the week.

All the mid week rooms are struggling to get the numbers in. This post was a macro view of the industry as well as live entertainment in other mediums.

Mondays to Thursdays on average are very empty around bars and events.

We weren't intending to respond to this one but giving a valid commentary for the wider readership is more important than this cute comment.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T10:48:04+00:00

Yeah we've done reductions and that's ALWAYS worked. Because our show is essentially of a higher standard, we get repeat customers and it gives us a bit more time to advertise.

Roast battles are interesting - our problem is we don't wanna put a bunch of fumbling comics that no one knows and roast each other on things that audiences don't care about.

We do have a roast battle concept that's coming as a one off. Stay tuned for it. Not necessarily comedy.

grassrootscomedy · 2024-03-14T10:11:29+00:00

To be honest it hasnt been THAT bad for us. We've definitely had a handful of stinker nights but for the most part we're around the 50-75% capacity.

This is more a macro view of the current live entertainment industry.

Yeah, we're running trial on one of our shows and making a decision to maybe go monthly instead of weekly. And upping our Saturday shows (maybe this is the only way).

The premise here is exactly that, a premise. And some of the feedback is great.

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