This. But $150 is luxury! I just heard an Oswalt bit about a time in the late80s/early90s when he opened for a comedy magician where he got paid $20 instead of the $25 he was promised.
Another comedian, Gabriel Iglacias, talks about a gig he got in Saudi Arabia for some royal. Without stating a number, he said he told his agent to ask for some similarly obscene amount they were sure nobody would go for. He was soon on a plane to Riyadh.
Casinos will often do things that are not necessarily aimed at making money in and of themselves, but are aimed at bringing people to the casino to lose money in other ways. If they lose money on the show, but make money when those audience members hit the tables, then that is a win.
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One of his best stories. An irate comedy magician!
No one has an estimate of how much he would have made initially for ratatouille?
An fwiw net worth isn’t the same as cash flow…
I watched the bit,
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ye146j/stand-up-patton-oswalt–selling-out-at-a-casino-pt–1
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/bnnci7/stand-up-patton-oswalt–selling-out-at-a-casino-pt–2
Based on his Twitter, the show was in Oct 2012.
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/256989952745811968
I think he’s engaging a a bit of hyberbole in service of the bit, ie. they’re paying a lot of money, his room is nice, the patrons are trashy.
I dunno, say it’s $50k.
I found a reference to Wayne Brady at Tulalip in September and tickets were $45 and $55.
He said 400 seats, but the venue they put big comics in is 1,200 seats, and it existed at the time. If they actually sell all the tickets (he said there were only 40 VIPs) at an average of $50, that’s $60k gross. If they papered half the house, it’s still $30k.
Aside from that, 40 VIPs (lets say 20 players and their spouses) would easily generate $60k in gambling losses in a single night.
I think we got it: it must cost $66,600.
Just a guess. But if the biggest Hollywood TV stars are paid more than one million dollars per 30 minute episode, I would guess that would be the ballpark figure.
I seem to recall the stars of “Friends” and “Seinfeld” were paid that much near the end of their run.
I could easily be mistaken about that number. Please feel free to correct me if I’ve got it wrong.
I think you were whooshed. Kamino Neko was making a joke about the number of the Anti-Christ, or 666, which to some, is indeed a sacrilegious number.
Wesley Clark wasn’t replying to him, but to Lamia.
For Patton Oswalt anything more than $1.79 is sacrilegious.
The rare double whoosh. $66,600 also has the number of the beast in it.
I noticed that, but $666,666 just looks better. It’s symmetrical.
And I was thinking that a payment greater than $5000 would be an abomination unto the Lord.
Well, yeah to HIM.
To us mere mortals its a bit less than that.
And don’t even think of offering him a hot pocket as payment.
Completely different animals.
Yeah, my impression was that it was probably somewhere in the $50-100k range. Not a ton of money relative to Mr. Oswalt’s bank account, but a hell of a lot of money for one night’s work. Especially considering how he supposedly didn’t tell a single joke. The point was that he was paid several times what a normal set would earn him, and the audience was so smashed that he didn’t even use any material.
That was a great bit. OKAY?!?!?!
I don’t know how much he was paid for the Star Wars filibuster, but IMHO not enough: