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START: Neal Patel, Founder, Producer, Comedian, Artificially Unintelligent Tech Comedy: “Tech stand up comedy shows”

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You can't do a joke about the Jira board at a normal comedy club. The audience won't know what the Jira board is, and explaining it kills the laugh before you get to it.

Neal Patel wanted to do that set anyway.

For years he worked two jobs, software engineer during the day and stand-up three or four nights a week in New York clubs at night.

Plenty of the comedians he ran into were also in…