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Podcast: The man in the booth

A brief appreciation of Comedy Club on State manager Joe Buettner’s pre-show spiel.

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September 4, 2015

A brief appreciation of Comedy Club on State manager Joe Buettner’s pre-show spiel.


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Recently I followed a guy named Joe Buettner into a cramped room in the back of the Comedy Club on State. I wanted to document the pre-show talk Buettner gives in his role as a manager at the club, because it actually adds a charming note to the shows there. It’s a little grace note that deserves to be documented, so here it is.

The segment was produced by WORT-FM’s Dylan Brogan and aired this week on WORT’s In Our Backyardnews show. Check out the rest of our Tone/WORT podcast pieces.

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Scott Gordon co-founded Tone Madison in 2014 has covered culture and politics in Madison since 2006 for publications including The A.V. Club, Dane101, and Isthmus, and has also covered policy, environmental issues, and public health for WisContext.

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