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A New Issue Of The Comedy Business Digest Comes Out Tonight!
I’ll be putting out a new issue of my Comedy Business Digest tonight and here’s some of what you’ll get if you’re a subscriber:
• Details about the best resource for open mic show listings on the web.
• A formula for how you can attract sponsors to your comedy creations - even without a huge number of views or website traffic.
• A breakdown of exactly how much money and what terms YouTube is offering to its bigger channel creators.
• A job opportunity with one of the web’s biggest comedy producers.
• Details about the expansion of one of the country’s biggest comedy club franchises to a new city.
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How A Funny Kids Book Became A Bestseller Before It Was Even Released
Something remarkable happened today. A children’s book hit the No. 1 spot on Amazon.com’s best-seller list. And it did so a month before the book is even slated for release.
You may have heard of the book—it’s a best-seller after all. Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, began its life as a joke Facebook post in June. It was a particularly trying instance of bedtime with his 2-year-old daughter, and Mansbach let off some steam in the form of a humorous status update to his friends: “Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, ‘Go the — to Sleep.’ “
The response from his friends was so fierce that Mansbach decided to make his joke book a real one. Go the Fuck to Sleep, which he bills as a “children’s book for adults,” will hit stores on June 14, published by the Brooklyn press Akashic. If it’s not even due for a month, though, how did a little 32-page book already snag a film option deal with Fox 2000 and, today, reach the pinnacle of online publishing commerce world?
Who Got The Most Osama Tweets Retweeted? Comedians.
A guy researched millions of tweets after the Osama news broke and found that comedians have an advantage when it comes to getting their news reactions retweeted by the masses…
Lee Camp points out that Bank of America, Verizon, Boeing, and GE paid less than $10 in taxes last year.
YouTube takes another big step toward becoming a TV network. Full details here.
Paul Feig Developing Comedy For Jon Hamm | LA Times
There’s a pretty good chance this will turn out awesome.
In an interview with The LA Times, Paul Feig reveals that he’s developing a comedy vehicle for Jon Hamm. There’s no details beyond that, but the prospect of seeing Jon Hamm lead a comedy is worth rejoicing about.
(via popculturebrain)
