Hey everybody, welcome to a new episode of the Jeff Macolino podcast. Hopefully you are

enjoying the new change up to the podcast. I'm not sure which episode this will be because

I've got a cluster of guests. Fortunately for the podcast with guests, it looks like I'll

be able to start recording them maybe a month or two even before they come out to you.

But I'll try to keep relatively current as far as the solo ones that I do so that my

stories and material stay fresh for whatever is going on. I thought about backlogging a bunch

of those and then I thought I could just gloss over a major world event or something silly

like that and I'd look like a fool. So I'll try to keep those current, those are obviously

shorter and don't need to be planned so far ahead. So today on the podcast I have R. Scott

Edwards. Now he owned a chain of comedy clubs for over 20 years. He produced TV stage concert

comedy with legends including Jay Leno, Dana Carvey, this guy named Jerry Seinfeld, Bob

Sagitt and many, many, many more comedians. He now does some coaching. He also co-wrote

a book that he actually sent me prior to this interview. Be a stand up comic which has

been a good read and very generous of him to send that. Frankly that's one thing I keep

finding amazing is how many people in comedy are very happy to help people trying to get

started. I haven't yet run into the mean competitive people probably because I'm a nobody

but nonetheless almost every guest I've had in the comedy world has been more than generous

with their time, with offering to help with other stuff. If I need it given me advice

it is touching to see how much people in comedy are willing to embrace people trying to

get into comedy. And Mr. Edwards will be an interesting guest. I think I'm actually recording

this before interviewing him. I'd like to change that up now and then. But I am doing this

before I interview him. But it would be interesting because he has a little more maybe of the business

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