The Black Hoody
The Black Hoody
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Lessons from entertainment executives, managers, and agents on how they run their businesses. Hosted by Luke Girgis
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Focuses on the entertainment and hospitality industries with episodes detailing business strategies, revenue models, and operational efficiencies, such as the episode featuring Emilio Savone, which covers profit margins in comedy clubs, ticketing innovation, and overcoming industry challenges.
Lessons from entertainment executives, managers, and agents on how they run their businesses. Hosted by Luke Girgis
Estee Adoram has been the booker of the Comedy Cellar for more than 40 years. Luke Girgis and Estee Adoram discuss how the Cellar grew from one show a night in a basement nobody wanted to visit into the most iconic comedy club in the world.
They cover the recommendation system that controls who gets an audition, why Estee has never formally ”passed” a comic, the distinction between real comics and career comics, and the new venue being built across from the Blue Note that could become the best comedy room on the planet.Luke Girgis is the founder and host of theblackhoody.com, a Substack publication and podcast for senior executives in the music and comedy industries.
Luke Girgis also runs Be Like Children, an artist management company, and has spent 20 years working as an artist manager.
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