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Denver's once robust comedy scene has been shut down, with all indoor shows prohibited while metro counties are at Level Red. The situation is no laughing matter, to use the phrase that comedian Sam Tallent begged Kyle Harris not to include in the headline of his recent story on the scene. The punchline? "It’s the right thing to be closed right now,” Comedy Works owner Wende Curtis told Harris. “I get it. But I didn’t do this. You didn’t do this. That f*cking idiot in office that I didn’t vote for — he didn’t act. He didn’t lead. He lied to the American people.”

Nathan Lund, a seasoned Denver comedian, puts it succinctly: " COVID has fucked comedy." And that's about as optimistic as anyone in the industry is feeling these days. Andrew Bray “Right now, there is no Denver comedy," explains standup Christie Buchele. "Dining, bars and comedy kind of all go hand in hand. So other than a couple Zoom shows, I don’t know of anything going on. The [COVID-19] numbers need to go down, and we need to get this vaccine rolling. This is the darkest-before-the-dawn moment...I hope. Comics, venues, waitstaff are all just standing at the starting line, waiting fo...

Person. when i've been around, how your mind and your comedy works. here we are on a friday night. we're covering not just allegations of sexual misconduct by a person who built his career around moralizing. but very prominent republicans saying even if true, and he denies it, saying even if true, this would be okay. >> i want to point out a few things. your screen behind you is beautiful. and your note pad doesn't leave a lot of usable area to write on. >> that's trooflt it is half logo. >> so for folks at hole, strong branding for "the beat" here. i'm sad, disappointed, disgusted what's happ...

And bush making fun of his ability to speak english and as comedians we did, and so did he. self-deprecating humor is always likable, because i should be more self-deprecating and so people would like me, and that is my dream, but president obama has turned it around like a comedian and like the "daily show" and comedy has a message and it is just jokes, but that is not how political comedy works. in political comedy, there is a message and to further a message, and in this, it is to show that he is rich, and we know he is rich, but he keeps affirming it, and he is not like you and me and a di...