Laugh Lounge – Claude Shires Joins Me On Lindzanity to Talk Comedy

I love to laugh.

I am not alone. A staggering 50 percent of the 130 million Netflix subscribers have watched one comedy special and one third of those have watched three specials.

As I have gotten older I don’t laugh as much but I seem to get better at making others laugh (both at me and with me).

Over the years I have made a couple personal investments in the comedy space which have created some tax losses.

I am undeterred.

Last year I got a cold email pitch deck from someone at Laugh Lounge and because it was comedy related I opened it.

The next time through LA I met Claude the founder and we have become friends. I have not invested in the company but have been advising and you never know. We would love feedback on the app of course.

I had Claude on my podcast to talk about the industry, life as a comedian, his work at Netflix and Amazon as a producer and of course his vision for Laugh Lounge.

He recently launched his app Laugh Lounge (the live streaming comedy network) and you can get it here. The Android version is here.

Claude tells me there are only 1500 working standup comics right now…an exclusive group of wierd people. The combined social reach of the top 50 working comics is over 300 million.

What makes a comic laugh vs an ordinary person:

For ordinary people: you can dress a guy up like and old lady and have him accidentally fall down the stairs and everyone will laugh, for comedians to laugh, it actually has to be an old lady.

I hope you enjoy the podcast. You can watch or listen here on YouTube. You can subscribe to the channel and get the podcast alert each time I drop a new one.

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