The assumption that women aren’t funny

Lynn Harris: The assumption is that men are funny. So whatever you do just confirms that. And the assumption is that women aren’t. So you have to work to overcome that assumption, and then try to be funny.

Andrea Marie: We are Moms Unhinged, a nationally touring standup comedy show. Join us in our podcast as we explore everything from motherhood, midlife, crisis, marriage, divorce, online dating, menopause, and other things that irritate us.

Hello everyone. Welcome again to Moms Unhinged, the podcast. I am here with Lynn Harris, the founder of GOLD Comedy, and I am just really excited to dive into some of your background and like how you got started, all this stuff and what you’re doing for women in comedy. I love it. So welcome Lynn.

Lynn Harris: Thank you. Thanks so much for having me.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah. So, tell us just a little bit about GOLD Comedy and like why you started it. I love the story.

Lynn Harris: Sure. So GOLD Comedy is the Comedy School and Professional Network and content studio where women and non-binary creators and other others, build their comedy careers and join a powerful professional network and make funny stuff that actually, you know, gets seen in all kinds of data and screens.

And the sort of current reason why I started it is that, you know, things were a lot better than they were in the nineties. And before for women and non-straight white dudes in comedy, but they’re also still unbelievably bad at the same time. Like both are true and we’re like grown ass women.

So we can hold two, you know, hold two competing concepts in our heads at once.

Realizing the standards are different at 15

Lynn Harris: But you know, the origin story is that I was on a ski trip in 19. Like 83, something like 

Andrea Marie: Yeah. 

Lynn Harris: big trip that everyone looked forward to, the big Jewish youth group ski trip up to Manchester, New Hampshire.

It was always a blast. Winter wonderland. And we were, you know, playing around a bunch, you know, hundreds of kids on Saturday night. At the synagogue where we were staying, and a bunch of dudes got on stage somehow. They like borrowed a bunch of nightgowns from the girls or Lands of Salzburg Nightgowns or preppy, you know, from that era.

And like they sort of got on stage and did this like nutty, sloppy drag skit. And it was probably really funny. I don’t know. Everyone was, everyone, you know, brought the house down. And I remember thinking my friends and I were funny.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.

Lynn Harris: I remember thinking, okay, now what will the girls do?

And just as quickly, you know, I was like, Hmm, what will the girls do?

And then, and then just as quickly, I was like, you know what? I think we’re gonna stand down because even, even though, and I don’t blame myself ’cause I was right, I was right because I reasoned, even though I knew that we were funny. I knew that. Audiences, whether, you know, paying audiences or a bunch of, you know, hyper teenagers in a synagogue basement had higher standards for women doing comedy that we just like slap some, like put bananas in our pants and slap something together.

We’d have to like have a writer’s room, you know, we’d have to come back in a week. And even then, the assumption is that men are funny. So whatever you do just confirms that. And the assumption is that women aren’t. So you have to work to overcome that assumption, and then try to be funny.

And so I was just like, you know what? I just can’t. And so even at 15, I was like, goddammit. And so that kind of stuck with me it wasn’t. It just, it was like I’ve been grinding that ax ever since. And I have since, and for a while I specifically ground that ax against Adam Sandler, who I believe was not, not kidding, I believe was one of those dudes.

‘Cause the timing all fits, but I mean, it wasn’t his, it’s not against him personally. But now that he like plays an old, an old dude like us, I’m like, oh, he’s actually kind of good so.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah. It’s so interesting. It’s so true that women have to like, be funnier. We can’t, you know, we you said, it’s automatically assumed, ah, you know, just women aren’t funny. But I think, you know, you’ve since then proven that there’s a community. Of people that can get together and be funny together and women and like, all of that.

Lynn Harris: Yeah. And the idea is that, you know, we know that, right? And and the idea is well, and we know that there’s tons of us out there. And save for those who we’ ll never know about who you know, quit because it was too toxic. You know who quit because of literal harassment or just being kind of iced out because it’s still gate kept.

So we’ll never know about those people. Sad, awful, unjust, but those of us who are left, like we know we’re good. We know we’re funny. We know we can do this. And I think what it still takes, and I could go into all the, you know, continuing, you know, everything from death by a thousand sexist paper cuts to really bad stuff. Really, really bad stuff.

But I think the move is to just make it normal that we do comedy, not make it interesting. Stop calling us comedians.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. I hate that term.

Lynn Harris: One is a dude and the other, and the women are the auxiliary, right? And at best, and so the thing to do is do it, is do the job, do the work, flood the zone, make it normal, that we are doing comedy and that’s a numbers game.

It’s just do the work. So really GOLD exists, do the work and get it out there. And so GOLD exists to just make it easier to succeed in comedy for the people for whom it’s still the hardest. It’s hard for everybody. It’s hard. It’s hard for that straight white dude over there.

Yes. But let’s let’s widen the funnel. And let’s help. And the more we help, and not just GOLD. Anyone, the more we help women and anyone outside the comedy norm succeed in comedy. We help them as individuals, which is a win, all its own. And then we change who makes comedy and the idea of who makes comedy and that matters because comedy matters.

It matters ’cause comedy’s a job. It matters ’cause you know, women are people and it also matters ’cause comedy is a powerful cultural force. It’s not just a distraction from like doom scrolling, right? And so it matters who makes it. So let’s make sure we get to make it too.

Starting a standup career

Andrea Marie: Yeah, exactly. I love that. I love that so much. Now, did you go into comedy when you were young then? You know you had that.

Lynn Harris: Yeah, I mean I was always kind of the goofball and in school I played the funny one, you know, I was the funny one, the wacky neighbor, whatever. And same like, long story short, same in college. And then yeah, I started doing standup pretty much. Pretty much right outta college. And first in Boston and then New York.

And I did it for at least a decade. And the nice thing was that I worked hard, but I wasn’t very motivated. No, sorry. I was motivated, but not ambitious. I was motivated, I was motivated, but not ambitious. So my goal with doing standup was to do stand.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: And so I had good time. I mean, despite all of the, you know, all of, I can, I can list the complaints, but you know, when you find your people, you can find your way.

And that’s what GOLD also helps people with. We’re also a powerful and supportive community. And even though I never really quit. I just kind of faded away from doing standup just ’cause I got less and less able to stay up late, mainly.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, I know. I know.

Late nights and comedy after kids

Lynn Harris: To do standup, you have to do standup all the time, in order to do standup.

And it just wasn’t gonna be the schedule that was gonna work for me. But I never, ever, ever gave up or gave up on comedy ever. I’ve always done something that is in comedy, near comedy, adjacent to comedy, uses comedy. That’s been the through line forever.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah. That’s so great. And it’s hard too, as I’m sure you know. You found it is a late night gig. That’s why I love our Moms Unhinged show start at seven. I love that. We’re done. We party hard, but we’re home by nine, you know.

Lynn Harris: Yep. 

Andrea Marie: Or 9:30.

Lynn Harris: Yep.

Andrea Marie: But yeah, and I’m sure you found that having children, you know, also makes it much harder to get out at night. And it’s not totally true for every parent. 

Lynn Harris: People do it. People do it wonderfully and successfully, but it’s not easy. Oh, Ophira Eisenberg and I came up at the same time.

Andrea Marie: Oh, nice.

Lynn Harris: And my kids now babysit for her kid who is 10.

She does it, you know. And I remember Laurie Kilmartin when I was coming up, had an infant at that point who like, she joked and Ophira does too about like they’re, you know, I left him in the car. I’ll be right back.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. 

Lynn Harris: A second kind. But yeah, it’s hard. I mean, it’s hard for all parents, I’m sure. But because of both reality and assumptions about mothering, it’s harder for us.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, for sure, for sure. It is amazing that we get asked where our kids are and the male comics don’t always get asked.

Lynn Harris: Or actually know.

What GOLD Comedy actually is

Andrea Marie: Yeah, so tell us a little more about like what GOLD Comedy does and you’ve got classes, you’ve got a community, like what, you know, I’m curious to see.

It seems like you’ve got a lot of classes going on and that is it for beginners or experienced people? All people.

Lynn Harris: Yes. So just the first thing I wanna say is that it’s almost entirely online. So wherever are, we got you.

Which was by design even before the pandemic in my head. 

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm. 

Lynn Harris: Because for all the reasons, you know, for all the business reasons, for reach and scale and not having to pay rent or worry about the pipes in the heat. And also just because comedy happens.

On all kinds of platforms in all kinds of ways. And yes, we can learn comedy this way, at each other on a screen. Absolutely. So yes, we have tons of classes and we have, we have two open mics every week. We have meet and greets once a week with comedy, celebrities and prose. We just had Shaun Cassidy, we had Margaret Cho, we’ve had Rachel’s Dratch and Bloom.

Rachel Dratch is an advisor.

Andrea Marie: Oh, nice.

Lynn Harris: And we have classes in all types of comedy and also production, digital production, you know, so if you wanna make digital sketches, it’s not just about writing or acting. It’s also about like lighting and sound. And so we do that. And the cool way that it works is it you pay by the year and then your classes, other than our premium classes are included.

And the reason we do it that way is that the community comes first. You’re a Goldie, you’re in the community. You take classes. Sometimes you, sometimes people take classes more than once. Some people hold records for having taken our standup bootcamp class, like 10, literally 10 times. And so to answer your other question, they’re really, they work at, we designed the, we designed them to work at all levels because once you’ve taken them once, and we do have some classes that are specifically advanced, like advanced sketch writing, that kind of thing.

But they’re designed to really just be just to hold space for your comedy project. In other words, even if you’ve taken our standup bootcamp, take it again, bootcamp. People do bootcamp all the time. Because people do it for the accountability and the structure 

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm.

Making comedy careers real and visible

Lynn Harris: And you always get to work with a different group of people and who are always giving you feedback and, you know, mirroring back to you what you’re working on.

And then we’ve just really, as we go, we do whatever we can. If not with funds, then with time and treasure and connections and networks and just mentoring and just helping out. We work to really get people’s stuff made. In other words, it’s not only a, skills are important, we all need skills, and good habits, good, you know, powerful skills, but we also need to put our stuff out in the world.

Whether it’s with our sketch teams, providing them with mentors, production stipend, access to insurance. Just things that ease the way for them to make stuff. We do that. We encourage everyone to find ways to, and help when we can to actually, if they’re working on a solo show, get it on stage, how you to produce it, how do you get it out there, how do you get butts in seats?

How do you, what are the legalities? Like all of the things that help you make your stuff real. The last thing I’ll say is we also focus a lot on web series because there are really great little sweet spot between, you know, pitching to a network. Which we also can help you with, by the way.

And like making a ton of tiktoks. All of those are good things to do, but a web series is actually in reach production wise and budget wise. And so for people to be able to create that kind of proof of concept of their own comedy genius.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: That then you really have something that lives on its own as a success story, but then can be used as proof of concept to pitch something based on it.

So we try to help you show how, we try to show you how within reach that is. We have a couple web series of our own, that either we supported people in producing or that Goldies went ahead and produced.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm.

Lynn Harris: Drawing on the community’s expertise. One called Late Bloomers, one called Rat Czar. So we’re really serious about like making it real in the world.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, that’s so great. That’s so great ’cause it is hard. Yeah, you can have this idea, but the, I mean, just there’s so many steps to getting it all out. Like the, you know, there’s so many little things that come up. Like especially if you, I mean, filming or whatever, and or if you are doing a solo show. You, there’s so many things you don’t even know to even think about.

So that’s so helpful that you’ve got that community who can give you, you know, just a leg up and a heads up on what to watch out for ’cause.

Lynn Harris: Yeah, and I think, you know, one thing that really, we talked about the things that haven’t changed and should have. 

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

You don’t have to move to New York

Lynn Harris: But one thing that we have now that is unimaginable. That would’ve been un unimaginable to us in the nineties, et cetera, is just all of the different platforms and opportunities that we have now that we didn’t have before, primarily because of technology, but also not directly because of technology.

What I mean is, obviously, yes, we have TikTok and we have Instagram reels, and we have all those things that are great platforms for practicing and proof of concept being found, finding others, of course. But we also, I think there’s just this idea now that you don’t have to move to New York, Chicago.

Chicago um, Because of this, because of us looking at each right And the same is true for being a creator. For example, we, the, one of the reasons that we. Teach that we are very dedicated to teaching you how to pitch. Primarily TV show, but it could be anything. Not just pitch, but develop the idea until it is like you can’t pitch the idea until you have, until you inhabit and fall in love with the idea over and over and know everything about it.

So we teach you how to develop the idea and then pitch it. But the thing is that one of the perceived barriers to pitching a show is that we’re like, well, I don’t know Hollywood, you know, or I don’t know. I don’t have that kind of network. I don’t live in LA. I don’t know. You know? And technology enters this equation in a lot of places.

But the point is, we have the person who teaches it produced Broad City and Search Party, and Amy Schumer. Knows what she’s talking about, and she’s here to tell you that you don’t have to like, you know, you don’t have to, your dad didn’t have to be on the Lampoon for you to break into television. That there is way and if you learn the language, if you develop the idea to where it’s ready and then learn the language. We don’t care where you live or how much TV experience you have. If you have that idea and are ready to go pitch, you will get heard.

They’re looking for stories that are not the same old, same old.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. And the thing that’s amazing about the time we’re in right now is there’s such a fractionalization of all the places that now need content, it’s not just the big, major stations. It’s Hulu and they’re all producing their own things, Amazon, all those, there are just so many places where they need extra content.

You know, to fill their schedules that just weren’t there anymore. And you can, you know, the ability to produce it yourself and promote it yourself is also pretty amazing too.

Lynn Harris: Yeah, and all this stuff that you know didn’t exist a couple years ago, like fast channels like Tubi. and we have stuff on a couple of them now, which is a great deal. ‘Cause our people’s stuff gets distributed. It’s a non-exclusive deal, so there’s nothing stopping. You know, we had a web series on Fox Soul, which is amazing.

It’s one of Fox’s, the good part of Fox. It’s one of Fox’s fast channels. It’s not exclusive. So legit, we the creators can say, our stuff’s on Fox. On Fox Soul. But if someone comes along and says, Hey. You know, if someone from HBO comes along and sees that it’s not exclusive and you know, it’s set up to get ad revenue and like it’s, there’s no, there is a barrier to entry, but it’s very low.

You have to good thing. And through our network, we knew we have. A informal partner company that helps match us to these, called Cold Open, that helps match us to these opportunities. So it’s really is like, it’s who you know, but not necessarily who you think that you have to know.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That’s great. That’s so great. So when did you start, when did you start GOLD Comedy? What was it was before the pandemic? 

Lynn Harris: Been evolving both in my mind and in reality for a long time. This iteration that you now see, on our platform, we use a platform called Mighty Networks that helps us have everything in one place online, in your pocket, all those things. This iteration has been around since the, like, the end of the pandemic.

Andrea Marie: Okay. That’s great.

Lynn Harris: For a long time and in various other preliminary forms for a long time.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah, I know. Sometimes it starts out as one thing and then it’s like, oh, the market is demanding this now, you know? So, yeah. That’s great. Well, it’s great that, and I love, you know, especially you’re able to pivot and recognize some of that and see what people need.

I love that. So, great. Now you have, you were just telling me that your kid is off to school, off to college.

Lynn Harris: Yes. I don’t think they’ll be listening to this podcast, so they don’t need to know that I have, the minute they left, I was like, doubts. I was like bye. Have a great time. And then I’m like running up the stairs. And I’m like, finally, you know, moving my computer into their room, moving in printer. All the weightlifting stuff, like the fitness equipment, they’re like barely down the block.

The monitor is set up like, it’s everything guests are staying over. It’s great.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. That’s so funny. Yeah. You don’t need to come home for break.

Lynn Harris: I was like, how long is your break?

Andrea Marie: I know.

Lynn Harris: Yeah, I mean, they’re great. We love them, of course. But yeah..

Andrea Marie: Yeah. So just you have one. 

Lynn Harris: We have B, who’s a sophomore in college, and then we have Sam, who is a senior in high school.

An unhinged sleep training story

Andrea Marie: Okay, all right. That’s, that’s great. That’s great. So, one thing I like to always ask our guests on this show is for an unhinged moment that you had either with your kids or could be with your own parents, just something where things got a little crazy, just so we can all feel a little more normal.

That we’re not alone in this, you know.

Lynn Harris: I remember. So speaking of this room that I’m in, don’t tell, this for a while. When, when our second one was born after. For a while, they shared this room, both of them, but that was not, that the integration was difficult. I feel like Sam was in a pack and play in our room for like almost a year, and then we were like, all right, we gotta do this.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: And we sleep trained both kids. I don’t know if people do that anymore. I don’t know what the, I dunno what.

Andrea Marie: I don’t know. I know.

Lynn Harris: That and I’m a firm believer. I am unwavering for, I don’t judge any, anyone else. I don’t care. But like, I’m a firm believer in at least the theory that like, you could, the theory of like, if you can teach someone to soothe themself, that’s a life skill anyway.

But I also am not made of wood. So when we, and they were both like pretty good sleepers. And then we put them together in the room and it was instantly like call and respond, screaming, hysterics. And with one, you know, Sam was like one, and B was like three.

And it was, and we were like, we have to re-sleep train. And I remember being like hell to the no. My husband was like, I got this. And I just went outside every single and walked. I, we live in the city and I like every time it start, like it started up again, I would be like, goodbye. And I remember like putting on my boots. Wearing pajamas, whatever, throwing on a parka and just walking around.

And I would walk around the block and I could fricking hear them. I would walk around the block and I would be like, can go to bed now. And I would come back and I’d be like, and you know, I’d come within earshot and it’d be like, I’m like, shit, no. I’d have to go around again.

Andrea Marie: You’re getting 10,000 steps in at three, like three in the morning, you know?

Lynn Harris: If only we had those damn things that, you know, back in whenever this was, you know, 2010 or something. And I just remember being like, because I couldn’t take it, I couldn’t take it, even though I was resolved. I knew I wasn’t like worried that it was the right thing. I just didn’t wanna be there.

And so yeah, just storming up and down the, you know, of course blend people, it’s the city. There’s like people out, like probably doing the same thing.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Who knows? 

Lynn Harris: Like hey, hi, hi. B ut I couldn’t do something normal like go to the 24 hour diner, you know, like I had just be like, ’cause I clung to hope that like each round I would be able to finally go back in.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: I wasn’t gonna commit to like, you know, pancakes. So I remember that it just popped into my head ’cause I’m sitting in the same, in the same room and these are the windows that you know.

Andrea Marie: You could hear, yeah.

Lynn Harris: Yeah.

Andrea Marie: That is so funny. It’s so, it is so strange how we’re so wired to the cry, I think. And it is very just nerve wracking to hear it and to let it go and know that this is part of the process or whatever.

Lynn Harris: It hurts my heart. Even now.

Andrea Marie: I know.

Lynn Harris: Our kids are great sleepers, you know? Well, mostly, but you know what I mean, they’re fine.

Andrea Marie: Yeah, exactly. Sleeping till noon at this point, you know? 

Lynn Harris: They’re fantastic sleepers, let me tell you. Eye roll, yeah.

Andrea Marie: Yeah. Yeah. That’s crazy. I know. I remember my week. When I had my first son, we brought him home and it was like that whole bringing him home thing. I was like, oh my God, what? We have to know what we’re doing now. And I think it was the first or second night, and my husband did the same thing at the time.

He was like, I gotta go. It is very challenging. So, and then you’re so tired, you know, you’re so, so tired.

Watching 24 at 3am to survive

Lynn Harris: Okay. so here’s something unhinged. So okay, this is so funny. So my hack and I stand by this. I love television and I specifically love, I always say like, every year I’m like ugh, we live in a GOLDen age. There’s always something so great. And it’s not the only thing I love, but I like a good thriller.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: And at the time this was, we had DVDs. There was no, like, there wasn’t like that, like Netflix was still, they mailed it. They it to, and I remember my hack for both kids when I was the thing, we have to get up every two hours and nurse them.

My hack was that I would watch a absolutely gripping thriller so that when I got up again, I’d be like, all right, what happened to Jack? You know. Jack Bauer is in peril, you know? And so so I inhaled however many seasons there were of 24.

Like for all of its problematic politics, that show does not quit. I mean, it is the nail biter of nail biters. It’s so good. You can’t believe it.

I’d be like, you know, the alarm would ring and I’d be like, Ugh. Oh, I can get up. 

Andrea Marie: Can 

get up 

Lynn Harris: Right. But then like you’re, I was so fricking tired that like during the day I’d be like, I’d open, like I’d read the newspaper about like the president and I’d be like, yes, our president Dennis Haster. And I couldn’t remember what was real. 

Andrea Marie: Reality dream life, yeah.

Lynn Harris: I really thought, I mean, I really thought that he was the president all the time and I didn’t know, like there was just a very porous boundary between reality and the world of 24 for me. All the time, 24 hours a day. I was living in 24.

So with my second kid, I watched Angel. I was not quite as worried that of about vampires. In reality though, perhaps we should be, I don’t know.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: I don’t know.

Andrea Marie: Who knows? Yeah, that’s hilarious. I know. You gotta do something to get through. That’s a good hack. I love that. ’cause yeah, you might as well make it enjoyable if you’re gonna be up every two hours.

Lynn Harris: Yeah, I loved it. I 

was, 

Andrea Marie: That’s so funny. It’s such an exhausting time and you just really, you cannot convey it to, you can’t even, no, you can’t understand how exhausting it is until you are in 

Lynn Harris: Nope, 

Andrea Marie: it. 

Lynn Harris: But we did it. Then we were like, I’m going in again. 

Andrea Marie: That’s awesome. So share with us something you’re excited about with with GOLD Comedy or anything. Like, anything coming up that you guys are doing.

Lynn Harris: Oh, we got a lot of irons in the fire that I’m very excited about. We’re always cooking up another cohort of the pitching class that I just told you about, which is really life changing. Really, really life changing. So there’s always one happening and then one coming. So always excited about that.

And those pitches really go places. People get their shows into development. They do of concept. It’s a real deal. We also were cooking up some more direct support for people, not just learning how to create web series, but really like walking them through, like really incubating projects and walking them through, like leaving with a ready to go project, like ready to shoot.

Because we really believe in that type of content as a stepping stone and as an opportunity. It’s so fancy now, it’s called mid form, you know. 

Andrea Marie: Mm. 

Lynn Harris: So it’s really a thing. And so we really wanna lean into that opportunity. That is something that we’re, you heard it here, working for later this year to really give.

Really equip people to go out and do that thing. We’re also hoping to leverage our expertise now in pitching to creating a broader pitch competition. 

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm. 

Lynn Harris: With cool incentives and cool opportunities. Again, it’s great for each individual, but it also means that we put x number of more projects by women and others into the universe, which is what we wanna do.

We also, we’re always cranking out solo shows. Also, we really help people develop solo shows. And our solo show instructor, Iris Bahr, who you may have seen as the as, on Hacks and Curb Your Enthusiasm . 

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm. 

Lynn Harris: She is just a solo show savant, and she also runs a festival in New York City, so typically a solo show festival.

And so typically, her alums when they want to, are able to be part of that festival. Some of them have done solo shows before, but some haven’t. So they really can kind of go right in many cases are able to like, go right from this class, which is, you know, an intensive, it’s high level, into performing their, you know, having a run of their show in New York City. 

Andrea Marie: That’s cool, wow.

Lynn Harris: Yeah so those are all the, we’re tiny, so I can’t believe. I just gotta lie down.

Andrea Marie: Yeah.

Lynn Harris: I can’t believe we have all that, or we’re kind of working on a podcast also. 

Andrea Marie: Exciting. Yeah, so fun. I know. It’s so much, right. There’s so much opportunity and so many things you can be doing. It’s hard to always pick, so that’s great. Well, congratulations on all the success and all the wonderful things you’re doing to support. Women, non-binary, trans, people to help, you know, amplify their voice and get our voices out there in comedy and into the world.

I just love it. And for anyone who is looking to do comedy or whatever, just go check out goldcomedy.com. What other places can people find you online? And we’ll have links to this in the bio. 

Lynn Harris: Yeah, and I’ll also give you a discount code.

Andrea Marie: Oh.

Lynn Harris: Yeah, goldcomedy.com is great. That’s a great starting place. We have lots of resources, just a lot of good freemium stuff on our website. And @goldcomedy on Instagram.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm.

Lynn Harris: And all of those places we’ll give you, we’ll show you opportunities for just jumping in and starting a free trial to join, through our annual membership or also we have public workshops all the time that you can find on Eventbrite.

We have some of our mics are open to the public also. They’re on Eventbrite and yeah, we’re everywhere. 

Andrea Marie: Awesome. We’ll put the links in the show notes and the discount code so that people can get in there and explore, ’cause we get questions like that all the day at the time. How can I start? You know, just take a class and some people live in remote places or places where there just isn’t that opportunity.

So I’m glad you are providing that.

Lynn Harris: Yeah. And sometimes people walk into a mic and it’s, and they’re the only woman there, or they’re the only woman like their age or they’re the only something. That’s fine. Maybe other people are nice, I don’t know. But still, it’s nice. You don’t always have to be with people who are like you, but at the same time, sometimes you wanna be. 

Andrea Marie: Yeah, yeah. 

Lynn Harris: And sometimes you just want to know that a place, physical or otherwise is gonna feel like your people.

Andrea Marie: Mm-hmm. Yeah, that’s awesome. Well, thank you so much Lynn, and look forward to seeing more about what you guys do.

Lynn Harris: Thank you. Thanks for having me.

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