Acting Career
Many of you may have been wondering why the standup shows haven’t been as often as before and it’s really as simple as this: money.
The comedy world is interesting in the way that a club owner will tell you that they can only afford to pay you a small amount while paying a big name tens of thousands of dollars to perform.
I understand that supply and demand is very real, but unfortunately, you can’t pay bills in the “experience” that club owners assume we are willing to accept as payment, which I am not.
Acting has been the filler; I’m making more money and, honestly, making better friends. The acting community that I am involved in doesn’t have the same level of "I’m better than you” that I experienced in multiple comedian groups. I genuinely believe I am no better than the person next to me, regardless of success. So I chose to disassociate myself with them.
I’ve been happy, and still doing comedy in movies and shows as well as a standup show every once in a while.
Simply put, until club owners realize that their club isn’t the draw and the comedian is, the money is better in other venues.
I will never give up on comedy, I absolutely love making you all laugh. I just can’t justify supporting the many comedy clubs that refuse to support me as well.
Thank you for your time,
Jake
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Quarantine
Hey all,
As you know, this Quarantine has been very hard on entertainers. My revenue has dropped drastically due to the comedy clubs being closed, so I’m working hard on trying to grow my online presence as well as growing my online income. Coming up, I have the next 3 podcast episodes in the making and the next few after that in schedule. They include another episode about a double homicide in Delphi with someone close to the event coming on as well as some other exciting updates. Thanks for staying with me, and if you haven’t yet, consider joining my patreon at patreon.com/JakeRiderComedy for as little as $1 per MONTH.
Thank you!
Jake
