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Kate Whalen's avatar

Joe this is great!! Keeping your notes for my next time in the city.

P.S. both this and cozy bar data belong on TikTok!

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Thank you!!! I will try to pluck up my courage to download it and try haha

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jamiedunc's avatar

Love this! I came from your salads post - and need to say, I had the exact same situation at comedy cellar in 2021 but I got trapped in a 45 min Louis CK set (and it was also the worst set of the night)

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Ha that’s rough! He definitely was out of it that year. Thanks for the note !

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nc's avatar

I am such an advocate of early in the week revelry (great phrase), makes the work week pass just a little faster. thank you for these tips !!

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Lana Li's avatar

So good! But I was hoping for a bit about how to get tickets / waiting in line

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baroquebbq's avatar

More data-driven NYC MNPI please - this is excellent.

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Thank you!! Also can i ask about the origin of your username? Baroque BBQ is appealing to me

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baroquebbq's avatar

part kismet, part strategy - trying to remain anonymous on here but substack helpfully suggested something randomized with bbq and i tweaked it. glad it also has a nice ring to it to you 🍖 ✨

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Steven Cherucheril's avatar

This is awesome and super helpful! I feel like we may been at the same Louis Ck show summer of 2021 too.

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Ha! That's funny. That was a weird moment

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Kiera K's avatar

Giving us the info we've been wondering about! Data at its finest

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Gabriel Gomez's avatar

DATA 🤩 love it, Joe. Great piece and breakdowns. Gotta say, there is nothing like seeing a comedian bomb—a truly awful, incredible experience.

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Joe Hovde's avatar

It’s rough - I think even worse somehow for me is watching awful Improv; watching people have to react to one another when they know it’s not working is brutal

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Rahul's avatar

This is great! Reminds me of the time when I randomly saw Aziz Ansari on a Monday

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Joe Hovde's avatar

I feel like he was a frequent drop in for a while!

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Eden's avatar

This is stellar, thank you for sharing your knowledge (and love of graphs)

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Thank you Eden!!!

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Hannah Berman's avatar

This is fantastic. As per usual

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Thank you!!!! Really appreciate it

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Joe Hovde's avatar

Hey thanks so much! Glad to hear that, and makes sense about thursday, that feels like the day that i would be most likely to go see a comedy show so makes sense that they'd be headlining then

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