Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Okay, here we are on YouTube. Tom, how do you keep ticket prices to your shows affordable?

By insisting. I mean, that's it. That's, I mean, if...

Well, also by being popular because enough people come out.

So even...

Enough people do come out, but I mean, the first three shows of this tour that we played

so far was a $20 ticket we gave all of it away. It's insisting on...

Right.

So, you're going to have a point of view in the way that you want to do your business,

which is different from other acts, you know.

But it's not cheap to put on a rock show.

It's not. It's not. You have to absorb some of that cost

and you make that part of the thing that you're doing.

There's good points and bad points between music and comedy,

but all my music friends are so jealous that I just show up.

Yeah. As long as the mic works. Yeah, yeah.

That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true.

That's like, when you do do a show for a $20 ticket,

it's a lot of... I mean, you can't do anything without lots of equipment,

and electricity, and people. Yeah, but I mean, that's...

It's a curse in a way. Yeah.

That's how we're going to do it.

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