Inside LA’s weird underground comedy scene – where things get intimate

The best stand-up comedy in Los Angeles is no longer happening in comedy clubs. This may seem strange in a city that has some ...
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Whatever Happened to Local Comedy Scenes?

A new book argues that the isolation of a pre-social media era helped fuel a fertile Chicago ecosystem for offbeat stand-up comedians. By Jason Zinoman Paris in the 1920s. Hollywood in the ’70s.