Present
Primarily a showcase club, the Comic Strip encourages performers to consistently write, perform and perfect new material. Once a year, the club holds an "Audition Lottery", where aspiring newcomers line up to be given a date to try out their routine on "Audition Night", Mondays. If they do well, the club's talent coordinator passes them. "Passing" means getting a chance to work late night, where you perfect your act this occurs weeknights after the regular show has ended. Chris Rock used to clean tables to get extra stage time and Colin Quinn was a bartender at the club as well. Notable comic Jerry Seinfeld told Liz Smith of the New York Post, "When you are a kid starting out as a stand-up comic, you don't dream about the cover of Time Magazine. You dream about the 9 o'clock spot on Saturday night at the Comic Strip." In January 2007, Comic Strip Live started a new blog named "Tales From the Strip".
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Famous quotes containing the word present:
“Uncomprehending when they have heard, they are like the deaf. The saying describes them: though present they are absent.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)