Where a comedian profile is filed: a wall of old wooden index drawers in warm light
SUCDb · For working comics

Write your own comedian profile.

SUCDb is where people look comics up — Nate Bargatze's record shows what one holds. This is where a working comic writes their comedian profile, or claims the one SUCDb already has, in two halves: what everyone sees — your act, your story, your next shows — and a private half — what you'll take and what you charge. Every word and every number comes from you.

Your comedian profile, your SUCDb record, is how a comic joins D.O.C.: fans will see the public half, bookers D.O.C. approves will see the private half once they can sign in, and sending it is also your application to become a member. A SUCDb record is free. D.O.C. is not taking submissions yet, so until it does your record stays on this device and nothing is sent.

  1. Your act. A clip of your set, the style you call yours and a line about you — the first tab. Already in SUCDb? Find your record there, and the rest becomes your corrections.
  2. The rest. Your story, your dates and your terms for bookers, in the tabs after it.
  3. Send it. Once D.O.C. opens submissions. Until then it stays on this device, and nothing is sent.

Kept on this device as you type. Nothing is sent until you send it.

Step 1 · for everyone

Your act — the top of your comedian profile

A clip of your set, the style you call yours, and a profile in your own words. It is kept on this device as you type.

YouTube is the minimum bar: a name is a claim, and a clip is the evidence. Unlisted is fine — an unlisted link works for anyone who has it, and it keeps the video off your channel until you want it there (YouTube Help shows how to set a video to unlisted ↗). The Tech section on Stage Time covers how to get a usable recording.
Your style pick at least one

Pick every tag that genuinely applies and none that do not. Once approved bookers can sign in, they will search by these tags.

One line. This is what appears under your name.
Honest beats flattering: being in the wrong bracket wastes everybody's evening.
Written by you, about you. Four or five sentences is plenty, and specific beats polished: a generic paragraph tells a booker you have not thought about it.
Your video's transcript you have to agree to this

Sending your record means agreeing that D.O.C. may read your video's transcript, for two things on your record:

Nothing is published in words you did not write: the topic tags and the cleanliness band are the only machine-made parts, and the band shows as a band, never as a quote from your set.

Comic Critique reads your tape's transcript on your own device: pace, filler, repeated phrases, every swear with its minute, and your longest silences →

Step 2 · for everyone

Where it started, and what you have done since

What fans read about you on your comedian profile: the year you started, your first stage, and the credits you can point to. Only what you write here goes in.

Credits (optional)

Festivals, TV, an album or a special, a podcast — each with a link where one exists. A credit with its source is a fact; without one it is a claim.

How other working comics started, and how long the break took, is on Road Maps → Why is this taking so long?
Step 3 · for everyone · optional

Shows on sale, soonest first

Fans who follow you on Your D.O.C. see your next show, with its ticket link. A date that has passed is never sent, so nothing on D.O.C. calls an old show "next".

No dates on sale is fine — the record says so rather than inventing one.
Step 4 · private — bookers only

Your terms, and your fee

D.O.C. keeps this half to itself until approved bookers can sign in. Fans never see it. Every figure in it is yours: D.O.C. never guesses what a comic charges, and a fee you did not approve never appears.

What you will take at least one

Each its own yes or no, not a blanket availability.

Your number
Quote-only is a real answer, and where this starts. A published number helps a small room decide before it writes; a range leaves room to talk. What to charge, and how to put the deal in writing: Get Paid, Get Back.
The room
Say "clean on request" only if a clean version exists. Comic Critique lists every swear in a set with its minute, which is where to start.
Personal access

A separate permission each, never bundled. Anything left at "ask me first" is a question the booker has to ask you.

Representation at least one

Tick each that is true: a comic can have an agent, a manager, or both, and still take some dates directly.

Looking for an agent or a manager? Your Team has a directory, state by state, and what to ask before you sign.
Step 5

Check it, then send it

Below is your whole comedian profile, as D.O.C. would receive it. Tick the box to let approved bookers see the private half. The send button appears once D.O.C. opens submissions; until then, copy it and keep it.

Sending your record is also how you apply for membership. A member's invitation helps; nobody invited you? Leave it blank — the record still counts.

Nothing is sent, and nothing leaves this device on its own.

D.O.C. is not taking submissions yet, so there is nowhere for a record to go. What you type is kept in this browser as you go. "Copy it to send" is the way out for now; once submissions open, the send button appears and opens your own mail app with the same text.