Six Degrees of Komic Bacon
Name two stand-up comedians and Komic Bacon finds how they connect: a bill they shared, a show or a film they were both in, a podcast they both host, a cast they were on together.
How to play Six Degrees of Komic Bacon
Six Degrees of Komic Bacon is D.O.C.'s comedy take on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ↗ game. Every comedian in it is a real stand-up in SUCDb, the Stand-Up Comedy Database. Every link between two of them is a fact on the record.
Connect ’em
Name two comedians. Komic Bacon draws the shortest chain between them. Leave the second name empty and he picks one for you.
Beat KB
Komic Bacon names two comedians. You build the chain, one comedian at a time. Each one has to have worked with the one before. Make it in six or fewer, then see his answer.
Sounds like
Name one comedian you like. Komic Bacon names the five voices closest to theirs, and the one furthest away. Each one opens the six degrees between them.
The Daily Komic Bacon
One puzzle a day, the same for everyone: Komic Bacon names two comedians, you connect them in six tries, and your streak keeps count. Play today’s puzzle.
Looking for names to try? Stand-Up Comedians A to Z has a page for each comedian, and the Comedy Calendar has who is on stage tonight.
How Komic Bacon connects ’em
Each link between two comedians is a fact on the record. It can be a bill they shared on the Comedy Calendar, or one a comedian's own site names (“opened for”, “toured with”, “co-hosts with”). It can be a film or a series they both appeared in, from each one's screen credits. A talk show, a showcase or a contest never counts: turning up on different nights isn't working together. It can be a podcast they both host. Or it can be a cast they were on at the same time: Saturday Night Live, MADtv, In Living Color, The Daily Show, The Second City. The chain is the shortest there is. Among chains as short, it's the one with the closest links.
Sounds like reads each comedian's voice: the kind of comedy (storytelling, deadpan, crowd work…), what they talk about, and whether the act is clean. It reads them from their own site, their specials' network pages and their interviews. Two voices are close when they share those words. A word few comedians share counts for more than a common one. The furthest voice shares none of them and stands across from it: deadpan against high energy, clean against blue. Komic Bacon rounds each match to his own scale — 95, 80, 65, 50, 30 or 10 per cent — from very similar to very different.
