{"id":8211,"date":"2024-08-19T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/coronavirus-how-covid-19-hit-the-comedy-industry\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T11:35:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:35:43","slug":"coronavirus-how-covid-19-hit-the-comedy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/coronavirus-how-covid-19-hit-the-comedy-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: How Covid-19 hit the comedy industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the first part of lockdown I was just in financial freefall and I ended up going online and putting myself forward as a maths tutor because it was the only thing I could think of to do,&#8221; Smurthwaite says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as on-stage comedians, support services such as venue staff, bartenders, sound technicians, festival organisers, and others, are affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Those folks are responsible for comedy happening and they were hit hard by this &#8211; it&#8217;s horrible,&#8221; says Caleb Hearon, a Los Angeles-based comedian and writer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some comedians have received financial support from their governments, but this has only plugged a small gap &#8211; more worrying is the fact that post-pandemic, they may not have performance venues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-53360858?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the first part of lockdown I was just in financial freefall and I ended up going online and putting myself forward as a maths tutor because it was the only thing I could think of to do,&#8221; Smurthwaite says. As well as on-stage comedians, support services such as venue staff, bartenders, sound technicians, festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[4310,69,379,129,559],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-trade","tag-comedy","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-hit","tag-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}