Bring the whole night.
Comics already share rides, rooms and bills. Take it one step further and you are not one comic looking for a spot but a whole show — host, opener, feature and headliner in one car — to offer a club that allows it, a room you book yourself, a college, or a private party. Every version runs on one rule from the book: “Friendship is not a substitute for clear road math.”
Four slots, one car
A night of comedy has jobs, not just sets. Here is each slot, its length, and what it is for — in the book's words.
Where a whole night plays
Three comics, 45 minutes, and the music
Three comics and a speaker are a complete private-event act: fifteen minutes each makes a 45-minute show, with music between the acts, and the same again later when the night runs long. The comics are the entertainment and the DJ. Comics have to think outside the club for work — this is the book's private-event rulebook, worked by a team.
An example run sheet D.O.C.'s, not a rule — a 45-minute show inside an hour; a second set later runs the same way
Show pay, shared costs, the split
“Expense splitting should be boring arithmetic rather than a friendship test at the end of a month.” Here is the arithmetic.
Shared costs only — each comic's show pay stays separate unless the contract says otherwise
Settle it before the first date
Fourteen questions, from the book's topics on sharing road work. Fill in what you have agreed and copy it into the group chat — nothing is sent from here, and what you type stays in this browser. “Agree on the split while everybody still likes everybody.”
Print them, fill them in, sign them
The book's four worksheets for a team on the road: the agreement, who closes where, the ledger, and the party quote. Printing this page prints only the worksheets — on paper, or saved as a PDF. The fifth, Split the Run, is the calculator on The money.
Disciples of Comedy · Buddy Up — the worksheets, from D.O.C.'s companion book, Stand-Up Comedy: From Writing to Touring (topic numbers in brackets)
Sources
Topic numbers refer to D.O.C.'s companion book, Stand-Up Comedy: From Writing to Touring. Quoted guidance comes from it: Topics 128–131 on sharing road work, 344–347 on travelling together and 173 on private events, with further topics named under each card — and its Buddy Up page's worksheets are on this page: Print the worksheets → The advice on playing music at a show is based on Spotify's Terms of Use, consulted on 25 September 2026; the mileage rate is the IRS's, read on 28 September 2026.