This is a great story that stand up Bobby Mair posted and Cracked magazine did a piece on. SEE LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS on our front page. I love this!!!

I'm sorry, this may be the coolest thing I've seen in my life. https://t.co/idPOmge7YZ

— Mike Binder (@MikeBinderjokes) October 22, 2023

This is an excerpt from SUW Episode #44  with Katherine Blanford discussing a story that Rich Chassler told a bunch of us in front of the Improv  a few weeks ago.

I happen to really love Brad Upton’s story. I’ve done stuff on him on here before. In a nutshell, he’d been working for many years, opening for Joan Rivers and Johnny Mathis and a slew of other stars. He was a High School teacher and a track coach in Seattle and in 1984 he went up at a local club and auditioned and just jumped in the lake and started swimming. Cut to years and years later, he puts up a special on a You Tube channel called Dry Bar Comedy and over night it lights up You Tube like a Xmas tree. Millions of views overnight.

He’s now had a couple hundred million downloads and he plays and sells out theatres and clubs all over the world.

The truth is he’s just a damn funny comedian and he was going to find his audience somehow, someday, someway anyhow. In another era he’d be doing ten Tonight Shows a year with Carson. He’s the Number one guy on Dry Bar which is all clean comedy and yeah, he’s clean, but that’s just part of it. He’s got a great ear for making fun of everyday life which is something when done well, always works. You also get the feeling he’s a happy guy. Content and grounded up on stage. Grateful to be up there. There’s something really fresh about Brad that I really like. Check out the interview, then maybe check him out on Dry Bar, and then go see him live.

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#44 BRAD UPTON A truly funny stand up comic. A pro and a great example of the craft. I really love this guy's work. Listen to the episode. If you're a fan it's a great one for you, if you're not, you'll like it even more. @braduptoncomedy pic.twitter.com/MYgaBwvpyc

— Mike Binder (@MikeBinderjokes) October 21, 2023

EXCERPT FROM Ep. 44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ex9UhlnDk

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I mean maybe that girl who wrote that crazy letter to the magazine on their first date had a point… okay.

Hold on.

EDITORS NOTE;

I guess I screwed that up and Hassan Minhaj has his first real joke about a racist asshole to tell now.

Sorry.

Mike.