Asheville Standup Comedy Scene Built Behind The Scenes

24/06/2021 4 min

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Episode Synopsis

It's a Saturday night at the Asheville Beauty Academy--that's a nightclub, not a salon--and host Marlene Thompson has warmed up a full house as a standup comedy duo from Chattanooga called Good Cop, Rad Cop takes the stage. Normally, a DJ would spin records here and, indeed, there will be once the evening's comedy is over. But the reason there's comedy here at all is a woman toward the back of the room made it happen. Melissa Hahn isn't a comedian but, without a dedicated comedy club in Western North Carolina, nobody is more responsible than Hahn for the current landscape for local standup.

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