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Existential Comics
@existentialcomics.com

The worst part about remote work is how brutal it is to do comedy bits when everyone has their mics muted and you can't see their reactions. For the sake of the needy comedians at your job, please unmute your mic and throw in some pity laughs. Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

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Julia Clement
@juliaclement.bsky.social

Tell me about it. I was running zoom open mics during COVID lock-downs. As we were almost the only live comedy in New Zealand then we got an audience, but I needed someone monitoring the audience feed, muting those people who were doings things other than laughing or mildly heckling

Izzy
@isajk.bsky.social

Bit of a tangent, but I'm reminded of my last tutorial for my probability class at uni. We'd had to go remote, so we did it on Teams, and being the nerd that I am, I was constantly in the chat giving answers to the questions, and I was pretty much the only student doing so.

Izzy
@isajk.bsky.social

Eventually, the lecturer was like "Somebody besides Isabel please". What followed was, I shit you not, TEN MINUTES of complete silence 💀 Eventually he had to relent and ask me for the answer, which I had pre-typed to be ready to go when he did, because I'm a nerd 💀

Tertium Quid
@shinyhexagon.com

I did a couple shows during COVID's height and oh my god the terrible Sophie's Choice between the absolute energy suck of hearing nothing or people treating a live show like a second-screen thing, arguing with the spouse, eating right up on the mic, etc. One had an actual good person just handling