Results: Reading About Comedy and Music: Your Preferences?
Published on 02/17/2019
An editor at the weekly newspaper for which i do much of my freelance writing work has told me that his readership is more apt to want to read both previews and reviews of musical performances but only previews of upcoming comedy dates. Since Tellwut members come from a broader geographic region than my base in the Upper Midwestern U.S., I'm wanting to get a broader perspective on an issue affecting me professionally.
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When it comes to reading about music coming to a city where you go for entertainment, what would you rather read in a news source serving that city? I only want to read previews of upcoming shows I might like to attend.
16%
322 votes
I only want to read reviews of shows I've attended or would have liked to have attended.
4%
82 votes
I'm open to reading both previews and reviews.
33%
661 votes
I don't want to read either.
27%
547 votes
My answer may depend on the source, the writer and/or other contingencies.
20%
395 votes
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Same question as the previous one, only about comedy: how about it? I only want to read previews of upcoming shows I might like to attend.
14%
279 votes
I only want to read reviws of shows I've attended or would have liked to have attended.
5%
108 votes
I'm open to reading both previews and reviews.
31%
625 votes
I don't want to read either.
31%
618 votes
My answer may depend on the source, the writer and/or other contingencies.
19%
377 votes
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Only recently did I ask the editor overseeing much of my comedy coverage whether it would be permissible to include pieces on comedic musical acts such as "Weird" Al Yankovic, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the sorts of funny music arists who play comic book and science fiction conventions and get their work played on Dr. Demento's online radio show. I was given the go-ahead to give such acts coverage under the comedy heading during weeks when little else is going on in terns of stand-up and improv, but where would you rather read about such people?
I'd only want to read about them in music coverage.
6%
130 votes
I'd only want to read about them in comedy coverage.
6%
113 votes
i'd be oen to reading about them in either or both sorts of coverage.
31%
618 votes
It would be depend on the source, the writer, the kind of article and/or other contingencies.
17%
347 votes
I don't want to read about it at all.
40%
799 votes
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I started regularly attending concerts and comedy shows too late in time to have seen many such shows, but there was a time when comedians and comedy troupes such as The Firesign Theatre, Isaac Air Freight and The Credibility Gap would regularly open for touring bands and singers. Conversely, musicians seemingly more often back when would sometimes open for comedians, such as the time I saw former Nitty Gritty Dirt Band member John McEuen perform a solo set preceding Steve Martin. Have you attended either type of show?
I've seen a comedy act open for a musical act.
6%
120 votes
I've seen a musical act open for a comedy act.
5%
103 votes
I've seen both.
12%
231 votes
I've seen neither.
77%
1553 votes
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