{"id":995,"date":"2020-08-10T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2020-08-10T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:04:18","slug":"being-a-stand-up-comedian-during-a-pandemic-sucks-but-theres-a-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Being a stand-up comedian during a pandemic sucks. But there&#8217;s a silver lining."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COVID-19 sucks. And not in a good, tasty way. The opportunities for live performance have dried up since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Trinidad and Tobago, where I live, continues to have restrictions on public performances and for entrepreneurs like myself the risk of staging a show isn&#8217;t worth it. Even if people came (would they, though??) we still risk spreading the virus during a pandemic. Not cool. Rock, meet hard place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/femcom-vid-tag.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/femcom-vid-tag.jpeg 910w, https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/femcom-vid-tag-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/femcom-vid-tag-768x429.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve started an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/femcomtt\/videos\/2681975258741267\/\">online chat show<\/a> with my comedy partner Lyrix, and we are trying to adapt to this new world. This is not the comedy career I imagined. But I&#8217;m trying to make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s actually been pretty cool developing the show&#8217;s format since we started in April. It&#8217;s been through a name change, because we started as <em>GT on Lockdown<\/em> during the T&amp;T national lockdown. It&#8217;s now <em>The Givin&#8217; Trouble Show,<\/em> after our last stage show in March to celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day. We&#8217;ve had some extremely cool guests too: including jazz singer Vaughnette Bigford, chocolate entrepreneur and homesteader Gillian Goddard, queer activist Rudy Hanamji, comedian Kevin Soyer and a bunch of other people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering, no, an independent online chat show doesn&#8217;t pay. You can donate to the show <a href=\"https:\/\/fundmetnt.com\/campaign\/the-givin-trouble-show-with-femcomtt\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 sucks. And not in a good, tasty way. The opportunities for live performance have dried up since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Trinidad and Tobago, where I live, continues to have restrictions on public performances and for entrepreneurs like myself the risk of staging a show isn&#8217;t worth it. Even if people came (would they, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaallen-agostini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}