Stand-up without an audience

 https://www.wsj.com/articles/stand-up-comics-find-it-isnt-funny-writing-without-an-audience-11598373521

Stand-Up Comics Find It Isn’t Funny Writing Without an Audience

Lewis Black, Paula Poundstone and Jim Gaffigan are among the comedians finding it’s hard to write jokes when the pandemic has kept them off the stage; ‘I need to perform to write’

By Chris Kornelis

Aug. 25, 2020 12:38 pm ET