Mark and Jake Try To Make It

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Mark hosts a movie

02:42 Out of order episodes

04:15 Dumb and Dumber

10:35 Silly movies

14:15 Chris Farley

15:38 Surely You Can't Be Serious

17:15 Audiobooks for free

18:25 Little Rocks of Butter

19:35 Denver Fringe

25:50 Jay Leno

26:20 Jake's book idea

31:20 Greek Grammarian

32:00 Mark's Comedy Show

34:23 Show lineup question

46:40 Jake's theory on selling tickets

48:20 Cruise Ship Work

50:49 Podcasts can make money

51:40 Matt Rife

52:52 Patreon notes

53:31 The failure is what makes you good

53:58 Sandhill cranes Jurassic Park

55:27 Duluth, MN big boats

56:20 Weird places and seeing things

56:48 Baroque Art

58:30 Plugs

1:02:35 Patreon.com/markandjake

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Dumb and Dumber Laserdisc, revealed headliner, Gary Gulman, dense jokes, Brad Upton, Washington state comedy, Jake comedy frustration, driving logistics, Comedy Catch Comedy Club, Matt Rife Providence RI, Cruise Ship money, headshot conundrum, politics on stage, clean comic, be a clown

[So sorry, this episode is from between episode 33 and 34 due to an error by Mark]

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 St. Patrick's Day Hat

01:03 Dimitri Martin bit

01:48 Festival tape reviews

04:15 Jake talks about a bad comic

05:16 More festival tape tips

07:23 Panda Express

10:16 Mark is an idiot segment

15:40 Dalton, GA comedy show

17:10 Mic issues

18:01 Selling 200 tickets update

19:09 Themed comedy idea from Jake

28:47 Gorgeous sunset (image)

29:47 Joe Praino website

32:24 Porch Pirates

36:30 Trash disaster

40:15 Jake haircut story

42:10 Should Mark do this festival?

46:45 Comedy is easier as a man

47:21 Hannah Jones is leaving Denver

47:54 Patreon teaser - why Mark doesn't want to get passed at Comedy Works

51:15 Fringe fest update from Mark

53:58 Raanan Hershberg Breckenridge Sell Out

58:23 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Jake gets paid after 4 months, Mark hits the jackpot, Hannah Jones, Gianmarco Soresi, Hershberg & Stroup, feature pay at a club, Jake bids too little, Mark's hot take on Comedy Works, some info on a comic we discuss often, Jake's corporate gig, Google reviews, wind down and wrap up

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Jake gets asked for clubs he's worked

04:35 Jake guitar mic story

08:52 Mark gets a guest spot request

10:56 Awesome bathroom locks

11:52 Jake glimpses into bathroom stalls

15:20 Airplane bathroom tech

15:40 Bucee's Bathrooms

17:05 Should Mark do this festival?

21:00 Pete Holmes book

23:20 Vail Comedy Festival drop out

24:10 Fringe Fest Denver

26:23 Jake does storytelling

31:20 Derrick Stroup special Nostalgic

34:05 Jake finds a new venue

38:10 Jake's home show update

40:32 Wide is good

43:50 Mark has flight attendants at a comedy show

45:01 Vail Comedy Show now has 100+ reviews

45:43 Google reviews

48:26 Facebook reviews

50:52 Best Western Plus in Ogallala, NE

53:50 Hotel breakfast waffles

57:40 Hotel breakfast bacon

59:31 Patreon update

1:00:01 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Street comic, not getting paid by club, WSOC host run-in, Vail Comedy Festival dropout, New Bedford Massachusetts, Colorado gig contract, Voicemail, poaching, festival overlap, guest spot shenanigans, some comics make a lot of money, vacation comedy, great show, front row story

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Mark's patience pays off

01:32 Getting better club spot

2:58 Fragile comic ego

04:01 Mark reads a text

05:16 Comics on posters

06:15 Raanan Hershberg

06:32 New ComedyTicketing.com feature

08:24 Rion Evans

10:38 Jake's got a busy night

11:08 Kearney, NE

11:54 Crowd work and Ray Harrington

16:25 Jake is wrong (calendars)

17:24 BCE vs. BC

18:56 Church billboard jokes

21:55 Can-kles

22:50 Bringer show

27:22 Mutiny Information Cafe open-mic

28:15 Illustrating comedians

29:27 Mark gets a caricature

30:44 Should Mark do this festival?

39:30 Power Slap

48:25 Billy Graham

51:45 Vail Comedy Festival rejection email

59:05 Patreon plugs

59:55 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy Festival dirt, ranking festival comics, cringy comedian bio, Yoshee, Sam Tallent, Vail Comedy Festival and Mark break all comedy convention, festival tape story, tape reviews, FILM@Vail Comedy Festival submission, a famous comic's book, venue staff turnover, Derrick Stroup NETFLIX special

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 GeoGuessing updates

04:50 Is Comedy Art?

08:28 SNL Movie (Saturday Night)

14:14 Mark has a new joke

18:30 True Grit (movie)

19:27 ComedyTicketing.com

27:01 Jake + Ukelele?

31:10 Guillotine guards

32:20 Open Mic booking win

35:55 Mark Dentist story

40:32 Jake Dentist story

42:38 Mark shares a survey response

44:06 Movie chat (comics who make movies)

46:30 Jake IG DM story

48:18 Amos Gill, Australian comic

50:20 Cincinnati Bengals comedy

51:45 National booker inquiry

54:50 Bachelorette party comedy

56:10 Phone call win

57:31 Booking changes

58:36 Bad gigs

59:10 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Mark quote for Bachelorette party, Jake's money algorithm, Jake rants about bad comedy, Mark is losing confidence, comedy tutoring, national booker show story by Jake, comedy union bidding, Jake's struggling feature, Mark's struggling feature, racist audience member, Cavin Eggleston, hosting can be degrading, gun at a comedy show, Last Best Comedy Club, lost venue for Vail Comedy Festival, Kellen Erskine

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Jake comedy conundrum

05:10 Missing headliner

08:28 Mark booking Maine gigs

12:05 Comedy philosophy - take the money

13:46 Unlikable booker

18:20 Booker communications

24:20 Everybody's getting pushed down

25:10 Frisco Comedy Show

25:30 Hotel hack

27:00 Kearney, NE

28:16 North Platter, NE

29:21 Ogallala, NE

30:00 Back to hotel hack

34:34 Short Jake

37:00 Edward Bell

38:14 Etta Mae

39:59 Mark Dentist update

42:40 Parade story

45:10 Jake's themed comedy show

46:50 Big airport

49:00 Vegas public bus

50:22 Jake in Vegas

52:20 Expensive pets

57:49 Mark shares a joke

58:48 Plugs

1:00:44 Patreon

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Jake spills, middle of the road, Ran Barnaclo, Jay Leno, passed at Comedy Cellar, race jokes, money philosopher name reveal, outbidding comics, patching up comedy relationships, featuring headliners, comedy ego, manager advice, what comics make selling out comedy clubs, When book, Marcello Hernandez, Shane Gillis, what is making it?, quitting comedy, more name reveals

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Gypsum, CO

01:10 Bad cop at comedy show

02:40 Mark goes to Texas

03:45 $1000 Cowboy hat

07:25 Patagonia returns

09:55 Feature privilege

12:30 Apology to vegans

13:50 Hats on stage

14:32 Beef tenderloin

16:17 Co-working space comedy

17:40 Question for Jake

19:10 Reggie French

20:15 Long sets

21:20 Nervous to perform?

22:09 Clean Comedy Showcase

22:50 Mike E. Winfield's Dad

24:10 Jake's Dad

26:00 Jake's Mom

28:06 Stage shoe superstition

29:00 Comedy timer

29:40 Hyena's Dallas stories

31:20 Mark's 5 minute tape fail

34:20 Jake's fun show

37:50 Hawaiian audience (Tumua)

50:05 Tumua's comedy crew

43:00 Mike E. Winfield

45:30 Derrick Stroup sells out shows

46:19 Gimbal purchase fail

50:10 Don't Tell Comedy Dallas

53:20 Jake has the worst take about peaches

54:26 Jake encounters a cherry

55:27 Honeydew takes

56:07 Jake's blueberry story

58:13 Plugs

59:16 Patreon teasers

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: comedy pay etiquette, Mark private pay, pay disparity at Comedy Works, emotional pay difference, talking about pay with other comics, booker pay scenarios, Kellen Erskine, papered room, Mark gets the shaft, Ticketing platform, comedy club out of business

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Viral YouTube Short

01:01 Grand Rapids, MN

02:25 Jake's car story

03:15 Colfax Avenue

04:13 Mark festival disaster

08:56 Jake joke stolen?

11:20 Money roller coaster - Intellistage

15:40 Jake travel Nashville vs. Cincinnati

17:30 Bad comedy festivals?

19:10 Evaluating comedy festivals

20:57 Vail Comedy Festival headliner announcements

22:42 Festival attendance thoughts

26:14 Vail Comedy Festival is great

27:03 Corporate gig check

28:10 Too much time with another comic?

29:30 Long drives with comics (Austin)

31:28 Jake loves magic!

34:30 Mathematical facts (deck of cards)

35:34 Memory Palace

39:13 Running cars redux

40:50 Don't Tell Comedy in E town

41:35 Mark is bad at geography

44:04 GeoGuessr

48::59 Trevor Rainbolt

49:58 Amazing Randi - an honest liar

52:10 Jake's books in progress

53:30 Log home building

56:35 Whiplash movie

57:27 Gary Gulman fake documentary

57:45 Giro dreams of sushi

58:46 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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Big Jake Hovis

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy festival rip-off, getting old milestone, sensory deprivation tank, ice cream floats are the Plymouth Rock of desserts, bidding a show, terrorist demands, incognito headliner, Jake does not finish books, immersion reading, Mark's monthly newsletter, shorts, field book, Mark's writing process, set lists

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

0:00 Super Bowl

00:40 The R word and headliner drama

05:00 The comedian club

09:53 Comedy politics (Austin, TX)

11:23 The Voice and ugly people

14:15 Politics of booking

16:15 Pro Epstein jokes

17:25 Robert Kraft massage parlor

18:01 Jake is pro bullying?

18:32 Conan O'Brien

19:50 Jake is snowed in

22:15 Coal rolling

25:34 Dr. Mario on Nintendo

26:33 How Nintendo guns work

28:30 Jake makes omelettes

30:00 Mark's poster backdrop

30:40 Anthony Crawford is worth more

33:57 Paying comedians who would do it for free

34:38 Different buckets of comedians

39:20 Jake asks Mark a comedy scheduling question

41:39 Jake expands his senior comedy

42:35 John Candy documentary

43:46 Jake's little Jesus toys

45:40 Jake's Kill Tony plan

47:36 The Painted Porch bookstore

48:15 Hulk Hogan story

51:45 Picture of tiny Jesus

52:24 Mark's prediction about Jake on Kill Tony

54:09 Comedy Contest butterflies

54:40 Mark gets angry about registration fees

56:10 Steamboat Comedy lodging

59:01 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

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Big Jake Hovis

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy festival rip-off, getting old milestone, sensory deprivation tank, ice cream floats are the Plymouth Rock of desserts, bidding a show, terrorist demands, incognito headliner, Jake does not finish books, immersion reading, Mark's monthly newsletter, shorts, field book, Mark's writing process, set lists

Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.

00:00 Jake in Austin, TX

07:30 Jake meets Thor

09:30 -20 degree sold out show (Minnesota - Duluth and Grand Rapids)

11:15 Airport breakfast

12:30 Insulting to chickens

14:45 Poster

15:30 Derek Jeter bats

18:15 Too many Austin homeless jokes

20:45 Signed comedy posters (Derrick Stroup)

21:40 Jetbridge with snow

23:00 Winter storm driving

25:00 Mark 5 minute tape errors

29:45 Jake at The Mothership

33:30 Jake wants to bask

35:20 Jake and Kill Tony

41:10 Booking New England tour

45:30 Jake costume store update (Alamo too)

49:40 Crowd work mascot

51:35 Snowy drive

54:15 Jake secret show in home

57:05 New joke from Jake

58:00 Plugs

Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:

Mark Masters

https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)

Big Jake Hovis

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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: O'hare airport, money at sold out -20 degree show, club pay, Jake gigs money, nursing home gig, Jake likes a gimmick show, Jake plans a Southeast run, de-icing planes, road touring money saving tips, guest spot audition, Superior WI, TSA karma, airport lunch, mark bombs a joke, Jake shares a new joke