Just weeks out from Australia’s biggest live comedy event of the year, the entertainment industry fell victim to the greatest showstopper of the century: a global pandemic.
Australia’s biggest comedy agent, Token Group and Guesswork Television boss Kevin Whyte tells you what it was like shifting comedy from stages to zoom screens in record time.
But this isn’t the first time Kevin’s put it all on the line. His own Mum had to sign his first venue agreement, because Kevin was barely out of high school!
And not long after, his company went belly up, though Kevin proudly boasts “no one turned up to the creditor’s meeting”.
The entertainment titan tells Curveball what’s been going on behind the curtains, while he managed empty seats, stalled productions and out-of-work performers. But it’s all gold material for the next Netflix special.
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