I've found Tom Myers a lot more fascinating after I saw he's part of a whole scene or tier of stand-up where it's all of these below Z-list "professional" stand-ups and perpetual open-micers who are constantly laughing at each other's lame jokes and shilling and logrolling each other's comedy and club appearances and Zoom comedy shows, advertised usually via "posters" so badly designed you'd think they were made so on purpose. Featuring such obvious Murder's Rows of talent like :sees "Lyz Tori" and shouts WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT:
From my bit of research, Dat Phan here is a king among this level of stand-up, and he still trades in on having "won" the first season of a long-cancelled reality show that really didn't do his career any wonders. He holds “comedy” classes and gets paid by bored women and then puts them on these Zoom comedy shows so they feel like legit comics. His Instagram is or at least was, when I last checked it out a while ago, a conveyer belt of cringe.
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