Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Business Week with Carol Messer and Bloomberg
Speaker 1: Quick Takes Tim Stinovic on Bloomberg radio. Well, The New
Speaker 1: York Comedy Festival is back. It's happening this year in
Speaker 1: November seven and it's set to feature more than two COMEDIANS,
Speaker 1: including Bill Maher, Wanda psychs, Tracy Morrigan, Conan O'Brien and
Speaker 1: many more familiar and new names as well. We're very
Speaker 1: pleased this afternoon to have with us caroline her she's
Speaker 1: the founder and owner of the legendary carolines on Broadway.
Speaker 1: She's with us right now in the Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studio.
Speaker 1: We're gonna Talk New York Comedy Festival. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk to the stand up for heroes fundraiser as well. Caroline,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good. How are you? We're doing well. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's really good to have you here in person. We
Speaker 1: did this a year ago, but you joined us on
Speaker 1: the phone even though you were doing an in person
Speaker 1: comedy festival last year. Um, how is this year different,
Speaker 1: when people are more comfortable going inside? Well, I think
Speaker 1: we we've become a little more accustomed to God. I
Speaker 1: think we all got covid. So it's like but almost
Speaker 1: every funny US had covid get it over. You know,
Speaker 1: we were really happy last year that no one got
Speaker 1: sick during the festival because that was the wave that
Speaker 1: was coming through. So it was like first Delta Premicron
Speaker 1: was coming through at that time and we were very lucky.
Speaker 1: We didn't have to cancel on everything and everything was
Speaker 1: pretty good last year. So we're expecting this year to
Speaker 1: be even better. So we have, you know, over two
Speaker 1: hundred shows around New York City, over two hundred Comedians,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Even more than that. Um and tomorrow
Speaker 1: we announced a whole group of all of the little,
Speaker 1: smaller creative shows around the city and you can go
Speaker 1: to New York comedy festival dot Com and look up
Speaker 1: those shows and our headliners this year Bill Maher, Joe Koy,
Speaker 1: Wanda Sykes, Tracy Morgan, oh JB smooth, huge, Jimmio Yang,
Speaker 1: nurse Blake. Now do you know? I think about nurse okay,
Speaker 1: knew everyone else on that list, though, came around during covid.
Speaker 1: This was this person is an actual nurse, started creating
Speaker 1: videos and, as following of everybody in the health industry,
Speaker 1: they go out to see him. So he's at Town
Speaker 1: Hall on November Thirteenth Festival on Sunday night and look
Speaker 1: him up. No, you have to. It's really it's really well,
Speaker 1: the nurses. I'm sorry to jump in, kid, I know
Speaker 1: you have a question. I wanted to ask how new
Speaker 1: comedians kind of go, you know, rise through the ranks
Speaker 1: in this day and age, because it's not like it
Speaker 1: was thirty years ago. It's, you know, Youtube, Tiktok, instagram.
Speaker 1: You can build these followings online. Um, are you seeing
Speaker 1: that when you look out across the landscape right now? Well,
Speaker 1: we see that with nurse Blake, you know. We also
Speaker 1: see if somebody recording their own special and then putting
Speaker 1: it out and getting, you know, millions of views on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, what could be better than that? You're not
Speaker 1: talking about someone like Louis C K who's been doing
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like a Sam Morrel, somebody like that
Speaker 1: WHO's able to put himself out because nobody would give
Speaker 1: him a special, puts himself out and now has this
Speaker 1: big following. They have these direct relationships with with people
Speaker 1: around the World Thru Social Platform and not what both
Speaker 1: Burnham did, didn't he do something similar. No, well, Bo
Speaker 1: has been around for a long time. I mean he
Speaker 1: was with comedy central for a long time, that's true.
Speaker 1: Thinking he has been directing now too, so that's you know,
Speaker 1: he's in the directing mode Um. But it's it's wonderful
Speaker 1: how the socials, you know, have helped everybody you know
Speaker 1: obtain an audience. So that's the good thing. It's very
Speaker 1: you know. So compare and contrast what you're expecting this
Speaker 1: year to last year, because last year it was in person.
Speaker 1: Like you said, you managed not to have anyone get ill.
Speaker 1: Are People who attended last year who are attending this year?
Speaker 1: Should they be expecting any sort of different experience? No,
Speaker 1: I think we have. I think we have more. We
Speaker 1: have more to experience this year and you know, there's
Speaker 1: really something for everyone, you know, from Joe boy to
Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan, to Jimmy o Yang to want to Psykes,
Speaker 1: I mean Miss Pat is at carolines. She's wonderful. She's
Speaker 1: a wonderful story to tell. Um, to make a reservation,
Speaker 1: go seem this paddock carolines. I mean we have we
Speaker 1: have so much for everyone and we're, you know, we're
Speaker 1: dotting all the boroughs trying to, you know, be democratic
Speaker 1: and to be everywhere in the city this this you know,
Speaker 1: during this festival. Okay, it's one thing to know the headliners,
Speaker 1: you know the Bill Mars, the Wanda psychs, the Conan
Speaker 1: O'Brien's and more, but what about the up and commerce
Speaker 1: and how do you identify those? As a consumer, you
Speaker 1: have two questions. One, how to identify them as someone
Speaker 1: like me, like you know, if they're at the New
Speaker 1: York Comedy Festival, okay, they went through some sort of filter, right,
Speaker 1: so it's going to be good. But for someone like you,
Speaker 1: how do you identify these people? Okay, so we watch
Speaker 1: and we watch. You know, in this day and age,
Speaker 1: we get to see everyone, whether it in California or
Speaker 1: just living in St Louis. They will send a youtube
Speaker 1: clip in or a clip of themselves at a club
Speaker 1: and we choose who we want to be on New
Speaker 1: York's funniest. So New York's funniest SCIO will be held
Speaker 1: at the hard rock hotel. It's all one of our
Speaker 1: partners during the festival. It's the place to stay when
Speaker 1: you come to the New York comedy festival, go stay
Speaker 1: to the hard rock on street, Wonderful New Hotel and
Speaker 1: we have New York. It's funniest. So during the we
Speaker 1: pick people out. Now the people that have won in
Speaker 1: the last few years is Michael Jay, Ricky bles, Michelle
Speaker 1: Wolfe was involved, Tim Dylan was involved. So you see,
Speaker 1: we were all big names. Name now big names now.
Speaker 1: So when you come through that filter of New York's,
Speaker 1: you know, funniest, you really made it and you're on
Speaker 1: your way. Well, to the discussion of social media and
Speaker 1: TIKTOK and people being sort of able to launch their
Speaker 1: own sort of followings. Do you have a team that's
Speaker 1: just scouring social media? Um, we have a team that
Speaker 1: scours like shows constantly. Is the team? You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's more a team effort. Everybody there. You know. It's
Speaker 1: Greg Charles, it's John Moran, it's Louis Ferranto, it's Andrew box,
Speaker 1: it's everybody that we all work together and it's like one.
Speaker 1: We all share information. Hey, do you see that, instagram?
Speaker 1: Do you see this? Do you see that? Well, it's
Speaker 1: not just it's not just funny, but it's also a
Speaker 1: time for um partnering with an important organization that I
Speaker 1: know is close to your heart. So I want to
Speaker 1: hear a little bit about the Bob Wooders Foundation and
Speaker 1: how the New York Comedy Festival is partnering with Stand
Speaker 1: Up for Heroes to help honor our nation's veterans. So
Speaker 1: stand up the heroes takes place on Monday night, November seven,
Speaker 1: at the new David Geffen Theater at Lincoln Center. And
Speaker 1: of course, you know, Jon Stewart is back again and
Speaker 1: and so it's Bruce springsteen and we have a number
Speaker 1: of Lisa's lessengers on the show, Hassam Hussain uh the lumineers.
Speaker 1: So we have a group. It's a great variety of
Speaker 1: comedy and music and what we do is that during
Speaker 1: this event, which it's in its sixteenth year, we come
Speaker 1: out and try and honor the troops that have fought
Speaker 1: for us in the last war in Iraq and Iran.
Speaker 1: So this is to honor them and this is to
Speaker 1: raise funds to take care of them. You know, we
Speaker 1: think the war is over. There's no war over. We
Speaker 1: have more troops around the world than we've ever had
Speaker 1: and these people need to be taken care of when
Speaker 1: they come back. Yeah, see, you know, you think of
Speaker 1: a name like Jon Stewart, for example, bowl who has
Speaker 1: just been so active on Capitol Hill in getting benefits
Speaker 1: passed for for our veterans. Um Does he what role
Speaker 1: does he take in this? Just in the last thirty
Speaker 1: seconds that we have with you? Is it one of
Speaker 1: an advocate or is it one of a comedian? It's
Speaker 1: a comedian and advocate and just there to stand up
Speaker 1: for everybody. I mean Johnsonon a trooper. He's been great.
Speaker 1: He's just been wonderful. Caroline Hirsch is the founder and
Speaker 1: owner of Caroline's on Broadway. She's with us in a
Speaker 1: person in the Bloomberg interactive broker studio. Caroline, good to
Speaker 1: see you, good to have you back in person. We're
Speaker 1: looking forward to the New York Comedy Festival. More than
Speaker 1: two comedians performing one shows across all five brows November
Speaker 1: seven through. That is going to do it for Bloomberg
Speaker 1: Business Week on this Thursday, September twenty two. We'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. Big Thank you to Katie Greifeld for filling
Speaker 1: in for Carol Master and a big thank you to
Speaker 1: the entire team at Bloomberg radio.