"My business is down about 30 percent," he says. "When the economy is down, the funny guy is always the first to go."
Interviews with other corporate comics in town get the same verdict. Business is down, and they're having to go the extra mile, sometimes literally, to keep food on the table.
Justice, who supplements his corporate income by teaching comedy classes, as he has for years, was in the Evansville, Ind., area last Friday, entertaining a group of salespeople at a luncheon.
If that sounds like the punch line to a bad joke, then consider Jerry Farber's most recent job: working his hangdog brand of humor -- well known to Atlantans who've seen Farber for years on the nightclub circuit -- at a fund-raiser for a Georgia sheriff's office.
Comics' best jokes about the economy
"The economy is so bad I left the deed to my condominium in my car at the Lenox Square parking lot. Somebody smashed the window and left two me two more." -- Jerry Farber
"I was at a gas station, and the guy next to me said, ‘A dollar on Pump 7.' ‘A dollar?' I said. ‘Where are you going?' He said, ‘Pump 8.' " -- Jeff Justice
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