A corporate or private event books comedy for a purpose, so the question is whether this event suits your act. Choose the kinds of event that fit, ask about the audience, timing, content and sound before you quote, and send each buyer an offer made for their event, with a set length, what you need and a price.
Where you are, the tests for the next stop, and the steps between, in the order most comics take them. The steps are the Career Field Manual's; mark each one as you go, and the day goes in your passport.
These are the tests the next stop’s buyers set in their own published rules. Tick each one when it’s true for you.
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13 steps in 4 parts, from the Career Field Manual. Each has its “done when”, a D.O.C. tool for it, and your status, note and target date; star up to twelve for your 90-day plan.
From the Career Field Manual: Explore specialty markets, Choose help when it solves a problem and Find and pitch the right rooms. In the D.O.C. book: topics 132–142, 143–173, 290–313 and 143–196.
Explore specialty markets · specialty-04
Read what three event buyers or agencies publish on their own pages: how long, how clean, and what they promise their clients.
Done when Requirements linked to first-party sources.
Choose help when it solves a problem · team-01
Corporate work can come from the company, a planner, an agency or a speakers bureau; know who owns the relationship before you write.
Done when A map of buyer, host, producer and promoter roles.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-01
Done when Ten candidates and their official sources.
From the Career Field Manual: Find and pitch the right rooms and Explore specialty markets. In the D.O.C. book: topics 143–196, 132–142 and 143–173.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-07
Ask about the audience, timing, content and sound before you quote: a birthday in a living room and an association gala are different jobs.
Done when A specific description of the opportunity.
Explore specialty markets · specialty-07
Name the event, say why your act suits that audience, and offer the length they need, not the set you’d like to do.
Done when A pitch adapted for that buyer’s audience.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-04
Done when Three concise, different pitches.
From the Career Field Manual: Find and pitch the right rooms. In the D.O.C. book: topics 143–196.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-05
Done when A list showing sent, replied, follow-up, declined.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-06
Done when Follow-up dates, not repeated random nudges.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-09
Done when A decision trail you can learn from.
Find and pitch the right rooms · bookings-10
Done when Your calendar includes confirmed dates only.
From the Career Field Manual: Get paid. Keep records. and Choose help when it solves a problem. In the D.O.C. book: topics 234–289 and 290–313.
Get paid. Keep records. · money-02
Done when Exact terms rather than assumptions.
Get paid. Keep records. · money-04
Price the event after the questions, with the travel, the time and any second set counted.
Done when Fee minus realistic expenses, before taxes.
Choose help when it solves a problem · team-07
Check any request for a fee to be listed, showcased or represented before you pay it.
Done when Documented checks before paying any fee.
Habits, not a timetable: the atlas has no stopwatch. Keep these going, and the proof for this stop builds up week by week.
Each buyer's published rule, quoted from its own page, checked on 10 November 2026. They differ, so send each one what its page asks for, and read the page again before you send.
For a corporate show, usually one comic, it recommends 20–30 minutes, after dinner; and it expects a corporate comic to be clean and to know corporate audiences.
For a corporate show, which is usually one comedian, we recommend 20-30 minutes.
After dinner is best.
A corporate comedian should be clean but also have experience with corporate audiences and corporate norms and practices.
Ivy League of Comedy FAQ’s page ↗ · checked 10 November 2026
Comedy shows for fundraisers, with performers chosen to suit the audience, for nonprofits, professional associations, schools and booster groups, civic groups, fire halls and rescue squads.
Audience-appropriate performer selection
Professional associations
Schools, PTAs, and booster groups
Wild Hair Entertainment, fundraisers’s page ↗ · checked 10 November 2026
Comedy for corporate events, colleges, fundraisers, conferences and private events. Many of its clients ask for clean material, and the comedy is adjusted to the audience and the event.
Comedy programming for corporate events, colleges, fundraisers, conferences, and private events.
Many clients request clean material for professional and mixed-audience settings.
Comedy is adjusted to audience type, event environment, and program goals
Metropolis Management’s page ↗ · checked 10 November 2026
Places that publish how an event comic gets in, each checked on 10 November 2026. Save one to your booking desk to keep its status, a follow-up date and a note. 62 places in all, on the Career Atlas →
Published routeNew York area, and touring · Clean comedy · Email
Paid spots on clean shows at venues public and private: email a link to at least ten minutes of unedited video (or a late-night TV set), a bio or list of credits, at least one high-resolution professional headshot and, if you have one, a reference from a comic it already works with.
Worth knowing. Its Ivy League of Comedy shows book full-time working comics; its Liberty Comedy shows can book comics with less experience, for shorter sets.
Checked 10 November 2026Published routeSoutheastern Virginia and beyond · Show / roster · Form
A form to join its list of comics asked for availability: your experience, a bio and a link to a 5–10 minute performance clip.
Worth knowing. Being on an availability list isn’t an offer of work.
Checked 10 November 2026None of the buyers on this page publishes what it pays a comic, so this page gives no figure. Ask the questions first, then quote a price for this event, and put it in writing.
Before you name a priceQuestions to ask before you quote · Road Maps: the Math of a Gig, with your own numbers · Get Paid, Get Back: the deal in writing · The IRS on gig work ↗
Fill in what you know once: it fills every note below and stays on this device. Anything left blank shows in [brackets], to fill in by hand.
Subject: Clean stand-up for [The event] Hi [The organizer's name], I'm [Your name], a clean stand-up comedian from [Your home town]. I'm writing because [Why you're writing to them]. I do a [Your set length, in minutes]-minute clean set for [The audiences it suits], and I can host or emcee as well. A clip: [Your clip's link] If comedy might suit [The event], I'd be glad to send a quote once I know a little about the audience and the evening. Thank you, [Your name]
Subject: Clean comedian submission: [Your name], [Your home town] Hi, I'm [Your name], a clean stand-up from [Your home town], submitting the way your page asks. Video, [Your set length, in minutes] minutes, unedited: [Your clip's link] Bio and credits, as they are: [Your SUCDb record or website] References: [Your references] I'm available [The dates you can do]. Thank you for looking, [Your name]
1. What's the event, and why are you adding comedy? 2. How many people, what ages, and do they know each other? 3. When would I go on, and what comes before and after? 4. How long would you like the set? Do you need a host or emcee as well? 5. What's the content rule? Any topics to leave alone? 6. Is there a hand-held microphone, someone on sound and light on the stage? Will the audience be seated? 7. Who signs the agreement, and who pays? 8. Is there a budget for the entertainment?
Subject: Your quote: [Your name] for [The event] Hi [The organizer's name], Thank you for the details. For [The event] on [The event's date]: a [Your set length, in minutes]-minute clean set. Also included: [Anything else included: hosting, an emcee spot]. The fee is [Your fee], which covers [What the fee covers: travel, a second set]. To hold the date: [Your deposit and balance terms]. What I need: a hand-held microphone, the audience seated, and light on the stage. If that works for you, I'll send a short agreement to sign. Best, [Your name]
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The buyers' rules are quoted from each buyer's own page, checked on 10 November 2026. A buyer can change its rules at any time, so read its page before you send anything.
By D.O.C. Editorial. This is one stop of the Stand-Up Career Atlas: private & corporate, stop 3 of 5. It's a way to plan, not a promise of bookings: it gives no expected years, its only figures are the ones buyers and venues publish on their own pages, and the buyers' rules are theirs. For how corporate comedy is bought, read How do corporate comedy gigs work?.
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