I've been asked quite a lot about corporate gigs. Comics on both side of the comedy divide do these shows, whether it's a private do in front of a load of suits or a company has hired a "comedy club" to entertain it's execs. This is becoming more and more fashionable, presumably because the cost of insuring paint balling and the like has gone through the roof. I spent a lot of my "real" working life running conferences for people in business who were training in the art of staff development. They were in short, bun fights. Suits away from their spouses in a decent hotel with an all night bar. In fact I honed my comedy (ahem) skills trying to train a load of hungover "Managers" at 9.00am after they (and often, it has to be said, me) had been on the lash to the early hours of the morning. The corporate gigs can be fun, they can also be a massive pain in the arse. Trying to entertain a lot of drunken disinterested people who are ultimately paying you can be disheartening. However, they do pay very well and as they are never on the listings, some comics who look down their nose at me and the mainstream circuit do very well out of these shows without the discerning punters, or fellow comics knowing that they're even doing them!
FTM!
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