Comments on: Don Friesen - The Future of Showbiz http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/ Covering weekly box office grosses in the US and TV ratings. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:11:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Daniel http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78681 Daniel Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:42:17 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78681 The great thing about putting your commentaries out early is you get imput you can respond to. By the way, am I quoting Johansen here: "My vegetarian girlfriend complained that I smelled like meat. I said, 'I AM meat!'" Friesen is like Johansen only 20% less cereberal. The standup boom is unrelated. For one thing, you don't need a boom to make money in standup the great thing about the long tail (see Chris Anderson for guru talk about the long tail) is small profits are plenty. And Friesen emailed me yesterday to assure me that he is, in fact, making a comfortable living. For another, showbiz wasn't facing the financial crunch that it is now. In the early nineties home video was still a limitless ancilliary market and writers and actors were only dimly aware of how much profit they were bein' screwed out of. Now DVD sales are declining, contracts are rewritten, and who knows - in today's marketplace maybe COMING TO AMERICA really WOULD never turn a profit. Showbiz didn't need to think minimally when standup was booming. The great thing about putting your commentaries out early is you get imput you can respond to. By the way, am I quoting Johansen here: “My vegetarian girlfriend complained that I smelled like meat. I said, ‘I AM meat!’” Friesen is like Johansen only 20% less cereberal.

The standup boom is unrelated. For one thing, you don’t need a boom to make money in standup the great thing about the long tail (see Chris Anderson for guru talk about the long tail) is small profits are plenty. And Friesen emailed me yesterday to assure me that he is, in fact, making a comfortable living.

For another, showbiz wasn’t facing the financial crunch that it is now. In the early nineties home video was still a limitless ancilliary market and writers and actors were only dimly aware of how much profit they were bein’ screwed out of. Now DVD sales are declining, contracts are rewritten, and who knows - in today’s marketplace maybe COMING TO AMERICA really WOULD never turn a profit.

Showbiz didn’t need to think minimally when standup was booming.

]]> By: skot http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78545 skot Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:05:05 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78545 If stand-up is the showbiz biz model o' the future, what happened to the whole stand-up boom of about a decade ago? Don Friesen, huh? Never heard. Of course I can just superimpose the name of my favorite should-be-more-famous standup Jake Johansen and the article reads the same. Friesen, Johansen: Dane Power! If stand-up is the showbiz biz model o’ the future, what happened to the whole stand-up boom of about a decade ago?

Don Friesen, huh? Never heard. Of course I can just superimpose the name of my favorite should-be-more-famous standup Jake Johansen and the article reads the same.

Friesen, Johansen: Dane Power!

]]> By: Cameron Reilly http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78475 Cameron Reilly Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:36:10 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78475 Hey come to think of it, I *have* heard of this guy before! I did a WHOLE PODCAST with his stuff in it: http://lol.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/03/05/lol-004/ I didn't recognize the name. LOL. Hey come to think of it, I *have* heard of this guy before! I did a WHOLE PODCAST with his stuff in it:
http://lol.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/03/05/lol-004/

I didn’t recognize the name. LOL.

]]> By: Cameron Reilly http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78473 Cameron Reilly Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:32:35 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/04/30/don-friesen-the-future-of-showbiz/#comment-78473 I agree dude. About the business model that is. Havent seen Don but just went and listened to the clips on his site. Brilliant. A guy like this should have a podcast. In fact I'd love to get him onto G'Day World to chat about the business model. I agree dude. About the business model that is. Havent seen Don but just went and listened to the clips on his site. Brilliant. A guy like this should have a podcast. In fact I’d love to get him onto G’Day World to chat about the business model.

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