MN Reads: How Minnesota Became a Hot Spot for Stand Up Comedy
Patrick Strait is the author of
Louie Anderson,
Jeff Gerbino started it all in the late 1970s in Minneapolis.
At that point, there really wasn t a stand-up comedy scene. People had maybe seen some stand-up on Johnny Carson or Bob Hope, but there really weren t comedy clubs or bars that were doing regular stand-up comedy shows, so seeing a stand-up comedy was really rare.
They started telling their jokes at a Minneapolis dive bar called Mickey Finn s before people know what a comedy club was.
It wasn t a comedy club, it was a bar, a union bar, and these guys were out there trying to fight for attention. There were union guys who just had a long day, they just wanted to drink and relax and chat, they didn t want a bunch of 20 something guys making jokes at them.
MN Reads: How Minnesota Became a Hot Spot for Stand Up Comedy
Patrick Strait is the author of
Louie Anderson,
Jeff Gerbino started it all in the late 1970s in Minneapolis.
At that point, there really wasn t a stand-up comedy scene. People had maybe seen some stand-up on Johnny Carson or Bob Hope, but there really weren t comedy clubs or bars that were doing regular stand-up comedy shows, so seeing a stand-up comedy was really rare.
They started telling their jokes at a Minneapolis dive bar called Mickey Finn s before people know what a comedy club was.
It wasn t a comedy club, it was a bar, a union bar, and these guys were out there trying to fight for attention. There were union guys who just had a long day, they just wanted to drink and relax and chat, they didn t want a bunch of 20 something guys making jokes at them.
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