One of the most annoying things about running a comedy show (other than finding a venue, booking guests, promoting the show and finding a tech person) is keeping track of times for comedians and giving them the light. Perhaps it’s because I am crazy necrotic but I end up getting so caught up in timing that I have a tough time enjoying the show. There must be something someone can do to help me!
Oh wait, there totally is. A comedian/software engineer from San Francisco named Toby Muresianu felt our pain and made an app for the iPhone called “The Light”. Let’s be honest, it’s rare that a comedian has any other useful skill to offer society so we all really lucked on this one.
The App lets you set a a countdown timer and then reminds you at fixed times when the comedian’s time is almost up, then it lets you give them a bright light with the time left. It’s a super convenient app for any show producers and best of all it’s free! So click here and download it to your iphone. And tell’em Dustin sent ya. They won’t know who the hell that is so it will be a little awkward but fun.
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Whoa, that’s great! I don’t own an iPhone, but I’ll recommend it to my iPhone-owning comedy show-running friends. Toby happens to be in my comedy video “Pop-Up Mashup”.. he knocked it out the park as expected.