Comedians joking about how much they hate crowdwork
When everyone else is zigging, it's a good time to zag.
Hershal Pandya, a Vulture staff writer who covers comedy, on comedians expressing their dislike for crowdwork from the stage.
Over the past year and change, comedians have gone meta with the trend by needling crowdwork’s laziest tropes and satirizing crowdwork using crowdwork itself. With two examples of this popping up in the past week alone, we figured now is as good of a time as any for a roundup of these bits.
Some fun examples there, including this one from Kyle Kinane:
He then proceeds to flip the crowdwork dynamic on its head by instructing an audience member to ask him what he does for a living. “I’m a comedian. Thanks for asking!” he replies. “You know, the other day …” Without skipping a beat, he segues seamlessly back into material.
dear matt,
i like this! thanks for sharing!
ALSO, i'll add this... i agree that "When everyone else is zigging, it's a good time to zag" is great advice, AND i imagine that EVERYONE isn't doing just one thing (and i don't mean to be nitpicky or pedantic, but to make a sincere point), especially if lots of people start following this (good)advice. that is to say, if a lot of people were zigging, and then a good number of people started zagging, then zagging might become the new zigging that one "must" zag away from.
so i think there are two potential great paths forward (at least):
1) think about what your truth is. do you really love to zig? then zig! zig bigger and better and differently and more creatively than all the other folks zigging out there. zig your heart out, if you are a person who zigs at heart.
2) do something that is neither zigging NOR zagging. zog. or zug. or ZYG. or maybe even doesn't start with Z or end with G.
3) have fun out there!
thanks and love and happy new now!
love,
myq