CLEVERer

PLEASE SUPPORT INDEPENDENT NYC COMEDY!!!

I NEVER do this. I would normally feel so gross about something like this. But this is different.

I’ve lived in New York for almost four years now. I love it. It’s the best decision (along with buying my cobra, ‘Joebra’ and getting my three nipple rings taken out) I have ever made.

I moved here from Minnesota to do comedy, BECOME KNOWN, etc. BS, self-delusion, et al, et phone home, et tu, tatu, etc.

When I first arrived the scene wasn’t quite as welcoming as a naive Midwestern manchild might have expected. I kept looking for a club that was “mine.” Where I felt comfortable and had actual peers and friends. It was hard. There are cliques and clicks and clits in every city. You just have to find where you fit.

After four years I’ve performed all over New York now, UCB, The Creek and the Cave, Gotham, tons of weird little bars… but my favorite place, the place I feel most at home is at Luca Lounge. The crowds are always fun and responsive, the shows and the people who run them are some of the classiest people in New York. I feel like I’m coming up with other people, paying my dues there… the thing is, the place is falling apart.

If you want to support me and if you have the means, please donate. They are less than 2k away from making their goal. I’ve personally already donated fifty bucks and if I see you kitty kats and dapper dawgs help out I’m inclined to find more nickels in my couch and donate more myself. So that’s it.

I won’t ask you for something like this for quite sometime.

Thank you friends and thank you LUCA LOUNGE for making me feel like I have a place where I belong as a New York City comedian and a Las Vegas Comedienne. xo

-Sam Grittner

17 October 2011 ·