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Stand Up Comedy - How much do they make?

This is referring to not big comics but the standard traveling comic and all average:

How much does the first 5 minute guy make a night?
How much does the second 15 minute guy make a night?
How much does the headliner make a night?

Also here in OKC, most of the time the second and third people are from out of town, does the club pay for travel?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Usually the opener gets little to nothing if anything at all. The opener is trying to become the headliner. And so is the case for the middle guy if any, usually it's only an opener and a headliner. The headliner probably gets a couple hundred at best...The bigger the name the bigger the bucks!!! If you want to be a comic think Jerry Seinfield, not Tony Woods...

Tony Who???...my point exactly.