During the filming of the new stand-up comedy documentary I Am Comic (directed by Jordan Brady), I was asked to evaluate several comedians using my Comedy Evaluator Pro Software—the only comedian that I didn’t recognize was comedian Nikki Glaser.

As I have mentioned before, I didn’t have any input on which stand-up comedy video clips were selected and made available for evaluation.

I was simply shown video clips to evaluate of various comedians at different levels of comedy “stardom” including Tommy Davidson (who I met on the set), Jeff Foxworthy, Todd Glass, Ritch Shydner and Nikki Glaser.

According to the IMDB website – in December 2008, Nikki was ranked #7 on the AskMen.com list of “Top 10 Emerging Comedians.”

When I did my Comedy Evaluation Pro evaluation of Nikki, her PAR Score was a solid 30 in a comedy club environment (roughly estimated audience size was 200), which is a headliner level performance for sure.

I just found out from director Jordan Brady that shortly after that evaluation of Nikki for I Am Comic, she had made the transition to headlining comedian and just completed a USO comedy tour in Asia.

Don’t you find it just a little interesting that once Nikki was able to sustain a headlining PAR Score of 30, she started headlining? Interesting connection, especially for all the nay-sayers when it comes to my Comedy Evaluator Pro Software.

It is also my understanding that Nikki Glaser has confirmed and will be attending the world premiere of the new stand-up comedy documentary I Am Comic at the Slamdance Film Festival on Jan 27. So, I look foward to meeting her there. :-)

Here’s a quick update: I have an exclusive interview with Jordan Brady and Ritch Shydner of I Am Comic via my conference line on Friday, Jan 15. That interview will be recorded and will be made available as soon as I can.

Cheers,
Steve Roye
The Professor of Funny for Money

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