DMA#45: How Traverse City built a comedy festival that treats comics like actual humans!

Draw Me Anything with Jason Chatfield · Apr 3, 2026 · 2m

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The sheer logistical terror of running a comedy festival is not something the average person truly understands.

You have to convince nearly a hundred highly neurotic, sleep-deprived stand-up comedians to travel to a single location. You have to make sure they get picked up at the airport. You have to house them. You have to pray they have the personal o…