Ask Me Anything 15
Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz
Barry Katz
4.8 • 946 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this Ask Me Anything episode of Industry Standard with Barry Katz, Barry dives into practical advice for comedians at every stage of their career. He shares insights on writing and originality, drawing lessons from comedy legends like Dave Chappelle, Jim Jefferies, George Carlin, Wanda Sykes, Louis C.K., and Steven Wright. With personal stories, deep industry experience, and reflections on evolving tools like TikTok and AI, Barry offers a masterclass in building a lasting and authentic comedy career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard. |
| 0:09.1 | The Ask Me Anything Edition, very excited about these things. |
| 0:13.1 | I enjoy them very much and I love answering your questions. |
| 0:19.5 | So let's start without further ado. |
| 0:21.4 | Question number one, from Buddy in West Virginia. |
| 0:25.5 | In your experience, how do stand-up comedians get over Writers' Block? |
| 0:30.5 | What are some ways that you have helped inspire your clients to come up a new and exciting material? |
| 0:36.7 | Writers' Block is actually a really great thing. |
| 0:40.3 | I know some people would probably jump into the studio and kill me, |
| 0:46.3 | but my mother always told me this expression |
| 0:50.3 | that's always darkest before the dawn. |
| 0:53.3 | And I think that, um, |
| 0:56.1 | writer's block is something that when it happens, it's just just so frustrating. It's like |
| 1:03.3 | being in a slump as an athlete or, uh, it's just really, really challenging. But if you know that there's greatness on the other side |
| 1:15.1 | then um and you have the confidence in yourself that there will be i think that you know you'll be |
| 1:22.7 | okay and and and you'll know that when you do come up with the new ideas, |
| 1:29.7 | that they're gonna be golden and they're gonna be incredible. |
| 1:33.1 | And you have to know for yourself that it's always happened. |
| 1:37.5 | There's never a situation in the history of the world |
| 1:40.3 | where you've had writers block for your entire career. Or you wouldn't your entire career or you wouldn't have a career |
| 1:45.2 | you wouldn't have a chance at a career so always know and have the confidence that it's going to |
| 1:52.7 | get over and there's going to be greatness on the other side and in terms of coming up with new and |
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