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- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 045 - "FILM@Vail Comedy Festival 2026"Jun 15, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Vail Comedy Festival in the books
02:15 Walkie Talkies
06:45 Feminine Energy
07:45 May Mountain Weather
08:30 FILM@Vail Comedy Festival
11:05 FilmFreeWay.com
14:15 ON A STRING (Feature Film)
16:00 Ryan Reiss (BEFORE WE GET STARTED)
19:40 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
22:00 Pop Up Movie Screen
25:05 Film Technical Issue
29:40 Jake's Fallen Tree
36:00 Chuck Roy at Loonee's
39:00 Moving to Denver for Comedy
40:30 Denver showcases
44:00 Mark is inspired
44:40 Tom Thakkar
45:04 Robby Slowik
45:14 Casey Balsham
46:01 Nick Vatterott
47:15 Jake Sketch
49:00 Nick Vatterott Falls - https://youtu.be/MZP_OLj_9f0?si=H_80aLIl69gJllxf
50:15 Tommy Hoarder and the Search for Missing Keys
54:24 Free Gelato at Vail Comedy Festival
55:15 Magic at Vail Comedy Festival
56:16 https://www.patreon.com/markandjake
57:40 Vail Comedy Festival comic roll call
59:22 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy writing group beef, Kill Tony, one liner comedy, hosting joke, Caravan comedy club, Sunday show story from festival, bad Denver showcase, NYC in August seeking spots, hard to host at a festival, Marks big festival mistake, festival finances, performance deposit
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 044 - "Stinky Stairs"Jun 8, 2026 · 1 hrMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. 00:00 Jake has stinky stairs 07:15 Jake\'s Home Comedy Club 08:35 Mark gets a review 11:19 Patreon.com/markandjake 12:00 Eminem lyrics 12:50 Adult graduation party 16:18 Amherst, TX 19:37 Clips to old clients 22:05 Mark\'s best private gig joke 25:08 Always Bookin\' Comedy 25:28 Jake\'s High School gig 32:00 Vail Comedy Festival 34:00 Eagle Valley Library District 37:43 Jake produces two shows 46:55 Sandwich board 48:30 Don\'t Tell at a gym 51:00 Noah Reynolds 51:55 Jake should be proud 52:40 Mark is going to Louisville, KY 57:39 Patreon.com/markandjake 58:30 Plugs Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below: Mark Masters https://www.markmasters.co (contact form) Big Jake Hovis https://www.bigjakecomedy.com Follow https://www.instagram.com/bigjakehovis https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMastersComedy SUBSCRIBE for more episodes https://www.patreon.com/markandjake JOIN for exclusive content This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: 4 star review, recovery show with a band, adult graduation comedy pay and selfie, awful comedy show, getting paid struggle, venue contract issues, comedy show lighting, bachelorette jokes
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 043 - "Mark gets kicked in the teeth"Jun 1, 2026Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. 00:00 Adult Bingo with Jake 07:40 Clean Bingo 08:20 Comedy Works New Faces 21:20 Comedy competitions are crap 25:32 Focus on the process 26:40 Make the crowd riot 29:05 No Doubter 30:25 Material strategies 33:00 Lady falls on stage 36:14 Jake producing shows 38:35 Spotlights 43:25 Vail Comedy Show 45:08 Meta ads 48:20 Should you book expensive comics? 50:36 Mark does Beer Barn 52:21 Should you hang? 55:30 Mark gets kicked in the teeth 57:27 patreon.com/markandjake 59:15 Plugs Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below: Mark Masters https://www.markmasters.co (contact form) Big Jake Hovis https://www.bigjakecomedy.com Follow https://www.instagram.com/bigjakehovis https://www.youtube.com/@MarkMastersComedy SUBSCRIBE for more episodes https://www.patreon.com/markandjake JOIN for exclusive content This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy Works New Faces Competition, Atsuko Okatsuka, beer barn pay, ComedyTicketing.com affiliate codes, clean show ages, typo on show flyer, Jake gets heated, senior home show, video idea, save the cat, Vail Comedy Festival marketing, Bachelorette jokes
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 042 - "Funeral Comedy"May 25, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Funeral Comedy
04:16 Jerry Seinfeld and fame
05:20 Carla Clay
06:46 Expired milk
07:52 Funeral comedy tips
11:05 Father's Day Comedy
11:50 Michael Jackson movie
13:05 Booking comic drama
17:41 Funny AF with Kevin Hart
24:56 Salma Zaky
25:55 Should Mark do this comedy festival
39:10 Joy on stage - correctional facility!
43:55 Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival
45:32 Jake's hosting opinion
48:35 New Faces Contest
01:00:03 Patreon.com/markandjake
01:01:08 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Athens Comedy Festival, Festival cost, Bend Comedy Festival, Salma Zaky negotiations, Mark big pay day, Funeral gig pay, organizer comic relations at festivals, hotel secrets, Mark and Jake agree on a comedy beef, a bad comedy festival, adult bingo, Krackpots comedy club, headliner drama, scam organization, bachelorette roast joke brainstorming
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 041 - "Hamburger at a Chic-Fil-A (Atlanta, GA)"May 18, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Trader Joe's Soda
02:20 Carla Clay
03:35 Not Grizzled
05:40 Underpaid
07:27 Comedy Competition
09:15 Thick Skin inquiry
11:40 Driving logistics
12:49 Thick Skin explanation
14:35 Red Eye for Mark
16:34 Empire Comedy Club & Lobster Roll in Maine
19:05 Ice Cream in San Francisco
20:20 Fisherman's Wharf
20:40 Lombard Street
21:42 Alcatraz
23:20 Laugh Shack in Portland, ME
25:02 Team Hotel
25:42 Funny AF with Kevin Hart
26:36 Doubletree free cookie
27:49 Jake car sleep
28:46 Jake drive KY to CO
30:50 Jake goes Viral
37:25 Portland, ME Donuts
41:52 Mark Crowd Work
42:16 Salvatore's Sandwich
43:47 Jake body cam
49:00 Bad Teachers
52:14 Should Mark do this comedy festival?
56:17 Jake books a show in Nashville
56:54 Johnny Ater
57:52 Great Falls Comedy Club
59:20 patreon.com/markandjake teasers
59:40 Plugs
01:00:05 vailcomedyfestival.com
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Thick Skin, Tattoo challenge, Brandt Tobler, Thick Skin pay, Idaho Springs show, dirty comedy, comedy travel costs, car rental craziness with Aombre, wrong pay at a gig, national booker rumors and drama
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 040 - "Donuts in Portland, ME"May 11, 2026 · 1 hrMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Trader Joe's Soda
02:20 Carla Clay
03:35 Not Grizzled
05:40 Underpaid
07:27 Comedy Competition
09:15 Thick Skin inquiry
11:40 Driving logistics
12:49 Thick Skin explanation
14:35 Red Eye for Mark
16:34 Empire Comedy Club & Lobster Roll in Maine
19:05 Ice Cream in San Francisco
20:20 Fisherman's Wharf
20:40 Lombard Street
21:42 Alcatraz
23:20 Laugh Shack in Portland, ME
25:02 Team Hotel
25:42 Funny AF with Kevin Hart
26:36 Doubletree free cookie
27:49 Jake car sleep
28:46 Jake drive KY to CO
30:50 Jake goes Viral
37:25 Portland, ME Donuts
41:52 Mark Crowd Work
42:16 Salvatore's Sandwich
43:47 Jake body cam
49:00 Bad Teachers
52:14 Should Mark do this comedy festival?
56:17 Jake books a show in Nashville
56:54 Johnny Ater
57:52 Great Falls Comedy Club
59:20 patreon.com/markandjake teasers
59:40 Plugs
01:00:05 vailcomedyfestival.com
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: New income source, testimonial videos, hardened by failure, weird crowd work, Ray Lau, Mark Maine money, sticker money, Nick Gordon, Roast show, bad comic, chairs, Maine run final accounting, secret to comedy, Comedy Works New Faces
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 039 - "Red Eye Anxiety"May 4, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake is petty (soda)
06:35 Buffalo Wild Wings
10:36 Murray, KY show
12:05 Host privilege
12:40 Seating show stress
19:00 Late show thoughts
21:00 House of Nanking (San Francisco, CA)
25:20 Manufactured scarcity
27:15 Redeye anxiety
29:05 Should Mark do this festival?
32:31 Fresh bookings
36:20 Janae Burris
37:05 Clean feature
41:05 Comedy union
46:20 Jake home show
48:05 Meta ads
50:55 Vail Comedy Festival
52:05 Learnmore Jonasi lawsuit
54:36 LAUGH Louisville
57:40 Derrick Stroup
58:30 RISE Comedy clean showcase
59:50 patreon.com/markandjake teasers
1:00:38 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Didn't like a comedian, vibe better than me, Cincinnati comics, lighting the headliner, Derrick Stroup online show story, Nate Bargatze movie, pay for a gig specifics, complain about a comedian, cancelling gigs, stiffed for pay, Derrick Stroup pay
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 038 - "Wheatland, WY Root Beer"Apr 27, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake gets panhandled
05:55 Mercury Cafe (Denver, CO)
07:04 Teens gone wild
10:37 Wheatland, WY
12:22 A&W Root Beer
16:47 Zagnut bar (Ray Harrington)
19:07 Buc-Ee's
22:27 Golf heckling
28:13 Neg
30:42 Most expensive ticket please
33:00 Jake's Home Comedy Show
36:49 Always Bookin' Comedy
39:00 Chairs!
41:40 Should Mark Do This Comedy Festival?
47:50 New Bedford, MA
48:25 Mic Stand Height
50:35 West River Comedy Club
51:35 New Bedford, MA help
52:55 Ticket update and chair layout
53:45 Bathrobe headliner
55:06 Jake Crowd Work
59:20 Patreon teasers
1:00:29 Plugs
1:02:05 Vail Comedy Festival May 22-24, 2026 https://www.vailcomedyfestival.com
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Insult Comic (Key & Peele), Mark's book confession, Denver Fringe Fest, Ran Barnacle, comedy competition, Comedy Works New Faces Contest, New Talent Night surprise guest, New York City trying to make it, Mark the feature/opener, Noah Reynolds, Competition pro-tip, Jake YouTube Driving, Book on tape suggestion, sensitive joke, internet comment rant from Jake, booking question, Ben Dailey, Patrick Scott
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 037 - "Arcade Expo Exposed"Apr 20, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Louisville Arcade Expo
10:03 Comedy at the arcade expo?
12:04 Avon, CO comedy show
24:46 Mark is cynical
25:56 Spring break comedy
27:50 Jake in Nashville
32:06 Are women funny?
34:42 Mark at Comedy Works
36:12 Should Mark do this festival?
39:34 NextStop Comedy
41:05 Jake's TV challenge
49:45 Jake's Comedy Writing Meetup
52:45 Jake's challenge
55:43 Mark's ascension
58:45 Patreon.com/markandjake
59:59 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: FILM@Vail Comedy Festival, show ticket check, poaching bribe, Mark's crazy theory, comic reveal, booking complaint (roar), twist to the bribe story, great comedy term revealed, Ft. Wayne Comedy Club, where are the punchlines?, crowd work into material, theater lineup note, Nashville coffee shop show, New Bedford MA "friends" show, flying with show equipment, YouTube comments
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 036 - "Chris Farley Fringe Fest"Apr 13, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Mark hosts a movie
02:42 Out of order episodes
04:15 Dumb and Dumber
10:35 Silly movies
14:15 Chris Farley
15:38 Surely You Can't Be Serious
17:15 Audiobooks for free
18:25 Little Rocks of Butter
19:35 Denver Fringe
25:50 Jay Leno
26:20 Jake's book idea
31:20 Greek Grammarian
32:00 Mark's Comedy Show
34:23 Show lineup question
46:40 Jake's theory on selling tickets
48:20 Cruise Ship Work
50:49 Podcasts can make money
51:40 Matt Rife
52:52 Patreon notes
53:31 The failure is what makes you good
53:58 Sandhill cranes Jurassic Park
55:27 Duluth, MN big boats
56:20 Weird places and seeing things
56:48 Baroque Art
58:30 Plugs
1:02:35 Patreon.com/markandjake
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Dumb and Dumber Laserdisc, revealed headliner, Gary Gulman, dense jokes, Brad Upton, Washington state comedy, Jake comedy frustration, driving logistics, Comedy Catch Comedy Club, Matt Rife Providence RI, Cruise Ship money, headshot conundrum, politics on stage, clean comic, be a clown
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 035 - "Out of order, really ep. 33.5"Apr 6, 2026 · 1 hr[So sorry, this episode is from between episode 33 and 34 due to an error by Mark]
Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 St. Patrick's Day Hat
01:03 Dimitri Martin bit
01:48 Festival tape reviews
04:15 Jake talks about a bad comic
05:16 More festival tape tips
07:23 Panda Express
10:16 Mark is an idiot segment
15:40 Dalton, GA comedy show
17:10 Mic issues
18:01 Selling 200 tickets update
19:09 Themed comedy idea from Jake
28:47 Gorgeous sunset (image)
29:47 Joe Praino website
32:24 Porch Pirates
36:30 Trash disaster
40:15 Jake haircut story
42:10 Should Mark do this festival?
46:45 Comedy is easier as a man
47:21 Hannah Jones is leaving Denver
47:54 Patreon teaser - why Mark doesn't want to get passed at Comedy Works
51:15 Fringe fest update from Mark
53:58 Raanan Hershberg Breckenridge Sell Out
58:23 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Jake gets paid after 4 months, Mark hits the jackpot, Hannah Jones, Gianmarco Soresi, Hershberg & Stroup, feature pay at a club, Jake bids too little, Mark's hot take on Comedy Works, some info on a comic we discuss often, Jake's corporate gig, Google reviews, wind down and wrap up
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 034 - "Wide is Good (in comedy)"Mar 30, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake gets asked for clubs he's worked
04:35 Jake guitar mic story
08:52 Mark gets a guest spot request
10:56 Awesome bathroom locks
11:52 Jake glimpses into bathroom stalls
15:20 Airplane bathroom tech
15:40 Bucee's Bathrooms
17:05 Should Mark do this festival?
21:00 Pete Holmes book
23:20 Vail Comedy Festival drop out
24:10 Fringe Fest Denver
26:23 Jake does storytelling
31:20 Derrick Stroup special Nostalgic
34:05 Jake finds a new venue
38:10 Jake's home show update
40:32 Wide is good
43:50 Mark has flight attendants at a comedy show
45:01 Vail Comedy Show now has 100+ reviews
45:43 Google reviews
48:26 Facebook reviews
50:52 Best Western Plus in Ogallala, NE
53:50 Hotel breakfast waffles
57:40 Hotel breakfast bacon
59:31 Patreon update
1:00:01 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Street comic, not getting paid by club, WSOC host run-in, Vail Comedy Festival dropout, New Bedford Massachusetts, Colorado gig contract, Voicemail, poaching, festival overlap, guest spot shenanigans, some comics make a lot of money, vacation comedy, great show, front row story
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 033 - "Can-kles Crowd Work"Mar 23, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Mark's patience pays off
01:32 Getting better club spot
2:58 Fragile comic ego
04:01 Mark reads a text
05:16 Comics on posters
06:15 Raanan Hershberg
06:32 New ComedyTicketing.com feature
08:24 Rion Evans
10:38 Jake's got a busy night
11:08 Kearney, NE
11:54 Crowd work and Ray Harrington
16:25 Jake is wrong (calendars)
17:24 BCE vs. BC
18:56 Church billboard jokes
21:55 Can-kles
22:50 Bringer show
27:22 Mutiny Information Cafe open-mic
28:15 Illustrating comedians
29:27 Mark gets a caricature
30:44 Should Mark do this festival?
39:30 Power Slap
48:25 Billy Graham
51:45 Vail Comedy Festival rejection email
59:05 Patreon plugs
59:55 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy Festival dirt, ranking festival comics, cringy comedian bio, Yoshee, Sam Tallent, Vail Comedy Festival and Mark break all comedy convention, festival tape story, tape reviews, FILM@Vail Comedy Festival submission, a famous comic's book, venue staff turnover, Derrick Stroup NETFLIX special
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 032 - "Guillotine Guards"Mar 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 GeoGuessing updates
04:50 Is Comedy Art?
08:28 SNL Movie (Saturday Night)
14:14 Mark has a new joke
18:30 True Grit (movie)
19:27 ComedyTicketing.com
27:01 Jake + Ukelele?
31:10 Guillotine guards
32:20 Open Mic booking win
35:55 Mark Dentist story
40:32 Jake Dentist story
42:38 Mark shares a survey response
44:06 Movie chat (comics who make movies)
46:30 Jake IG DM story
48:18 Amos Gill, Australian comic
50:20 Cincinnati Bengals comedy
51:45 National booker inquiry
54:50 Bachelorette party comedy
56:10 Phone call win
57:31 Booking changes
58:36 Bad gigs
59:10 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Mark quote for Bachelorette party, Jake's money algorithm, Jake rants about bad comedy, Mark is losing confidence, comedy tutoring, national booker show story by Jake, comedy union bidding, Jake's struggling feature, Mark's struggling feature, racist audience member, Cavin Eggleston, hosting can be degrading, gun at a comedy show, Last Best Comedy Club, lost venue for Vail Comedy Festival, Kellen Erskine
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 031 - "Yahtzee!"Mar 9, 2026 · 1 hrMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake comedy conundrum
05:10 Missing headliner
08:28 Mark booking Maine gigs
12:05 Comedy philosophy - take the money
13:46 Unlikable booker
18:20 Booker communications
24:20 Everybody's getting pushed down
25:10 Frisco Comedy Show
25:30 Hotel hack
27:00 Kearney, NE
28:16 North Platter, NE
29:21 Ogallala, NE
30:00 Back to hotel hack
34:34 Short Jake
37:00 Edward Bell
38:14 Etta Mae
39:59 Mark Dentist update
42:40 Parade story
45:10 Jake's themed comedy show
46:50 Big airport
49:00 Vegas public bus
50:22 Jake in Vegas
52:20 Expensive pets
57:49 Mark shares a joke
58:48 Plugs
1:00:44 Patreon
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Jake spills, middle of the road, Ran Barnaclo, Jay Leno, passed at Comedy Cellar, race jokes, money philosopher name reveal, outbidding comics, patching up comedy relationships, featuring headliners, comedy ego, manager advice, what comics make selling out comedy clubs, When book, Marcello Hernandez, Shane Gillis, what is making it?, quitting comedy, more name reveals
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 030 - "Shadow of the Broad Brim"Mar 2, 2026 · 1 hrMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Gypsum, CO
01:10 Bad cop at comedy show
02:40 Mark goes to Texas
03:45 $1000 Cowboy hat
07:25 Patagonia returns
09:55 Feature privilege
12:30 Apology to vegans
13:50 Hats on stage
14:32 Beef tenderloin
16:17 Co-working space comedy
17:40 Question for Jake
19:10 Reggie French
20:15 Long sets
21:20 Nervous to perform?
22:09 Clean Comedy Showcase
22:50 Mike E. Winfield's Dad
24:10 Jake's Dad
26:00 Jake's Mom
28:06 Stage shoe superstition
29:00 Comedy timer
29:40 Hyena's Dallas stories
31:20 Mark's 5 minute tape fail
34:20 Jake's fun show
37:50 Hawaiian audience (Tumua)
50:05 Tumua's comedy crew
43:00 Mike E. Winfield
45:30 Derrick Stroup sells out shows
46:19 Gimbal purchase fail
50:10 Don't Tell Comedy Dallas
53:20 Jake has the worst take about peaches
54:26 Jake encounters a cherry
55:27 Honeydew takes
56:07 Jake's blueberry story
58:13 Plugs
59:16 Patreon teasers
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: comedy pay etiquette, Mark private pay, pay disparity at Comedy Works, emotional pay difference, talking about pay with other comics, booker pay scenarios, Kellen Erskine, papered room, Mark gets the shaft, Ticketing platform, comedy club out of business
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 028 - "Leave the car running at the memory palace"Feb 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Viral YouTube Short
01:01 Grand Rapids, MN
02:25 Jake's car story
03:15 Colfax Avenue
04:13 Mark festival disaster
08:56 Jake joke stolen?
11:20 Money roller coaster - Intellistage
15:40 Jake travel Nashville vs. Cincinnati
17:30 Bad comedy festivals?
19:10 Evaluating comedy festivals
20:57 Vail Comedy Festival headliner announcements
22:42 Festival attendance thoughts
26:14 Vail Comedy Festival is great
27:03 Corporate gig check
28:10 Too much time with another comic?
29:30 Long drives with comics (Austin)
31:28 Jake loves magic!
34:30 Mathematical facts (deck of cards)
35:34 Memory Palace
39:13 Running cars redux
40:50 Don't Tell Comedy in E town
41:35 Mark is bad at geography
44:04 GeoGuessr
48::59 Trevor Rainbolt
49:58 Amazing Randi - an honest liar
52:10 Jake's books in progress
53:30 Log home building
56:35 Whiplash movie
57:27 Gary Gulman fake documentary
57:45 Giro dreams of sushi
58:46 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy festival rip-off, getting old milestone, sensory deprivation tank, ice cream floats are the Plymouth Rock of desserts, bidding a show, terrorist demands, incognito headliner, Jake does not finish books, immersion reading, Mark's monthly newsletter, shorts, field book, Mark's writing process, set lists
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 027 - "Tiny Jesus Super Bowl"Feb 9, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
0:00 Super Bowl
00:40 The R word and headliner drama
05:00 The comedian club
09:53 Comedy politics (Austin, TX)
11:23 The Voice and ugly people
14:15 Politics of booking
16:15 Pro Epstein jokes
17:25 Robert Kraft massage parlor
18:01 Jake is pro bullying?
18:32 Conan O'Brien
19:50 Jake is snowed in
22:15 Coal rolling
25:34 Dr. Mario on Nintendo
26:33 How Nintendo guns work
28:30 Jake makes omelettes
30:00 Mark's poster backdrop
30:40 Anthony Crawford is worth more
33:57 Paying comedians who would do it for free
34:38 Different buckets of comedians
39:20 Jake asks Mark a comedy scheduling question
41:39 Jake expands his senior comedy
42:35 John Candy documentary
43:46 Jake's little Jesus toys
45:40 Jake's Kill Tony plan
47:36 The Painted Porch bookstore
48:15 Hulk Hogan story
51:45 Picture of tiny Jesus
52:24 Mark's prediction about Jake on Kill Tony
54:09 Comedy Contest butterflies
54:40 Mark gets angry about registration fees
56:10 Steamboat Comedy lodging
59:01 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy festival rip-off, getting old milestone, sensory deprivation tank, ice cream floats are the Plymouth Rock of desserts, bidding a show, terrorist demands, incognito headliner, Jake does not finish books, immersion reading, Mark's monthly newsletter, shorts, field book, Mark's writing process, set lists
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 026 - "-20 Degree Comedy Shows"Feb 2, 2026 · 1 hrMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake in Austin, TX
07:30 Jake meets Thor
09:30 -20 degree sold out show (Minnesota - Duluth and Grand Rapids)
11:15 Airport breakfast
12:30 Insulting to chickens
14:45 Poster
15:30 Derek Jeter bats
18:15 Too many Austin homeless jokes
20:45 Signed comedy posters (Derrick Stroup)
21:40 Jetbridge with snow
23:00 Winter storm driving
25:00 Mark 5 minute tape errors
29:45 Jake at The Mothership
33:30 Jake wants to bask
35:20 Jake and Kill Tony
41:10 Booking New England tour
45:30 Jake costume store update (Alamo too)
49:40 Crowd work mascot
51:35 Snowy drive
54:15 Jake secret show in home
57:05 New joke from Jake
58:00 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: O'hare airport, money at sold out -20 degree show, club pay, Jake gigs money, nursing home gig, Jake likes a gimmick show, Jake plans a Southeast run, de-icing planes, road touring money saving tips, guest spot audition, Superior WI, TSA karma, airport lunch, mark bombs a joke, Jake shares a new joke
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 025 - "Raanan Hershberg is Morbidly Jewish"Jan 26, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min00:00 Mark talks big Comedy Show logistics
04:00 More logistics, up lights
06:35 Is it winter in Vail?
08:15 Mud season
11:15 Manor Vail Lodge is beautiful
12:11 Raanan Hershberg special
13:15 Check in process
13:45 Jake in Austin, TX
15:30 Jake meets his match in Little Rock - Lucas Smith
17:35 Wednesday stage time in Arkansas
18:25 Booking a New England run (table scraps)
19:50 An inefficient business (comedy)
20:50 Rozco's Comedy Club
22:30 Jack-butt
23:05 Ryan Long
25:00 Five minute tape ethics
26:55 Editing YouTube shorts
28:20 Recording the audience
30:00 Jake recording open mics strategy
32:00 Nate Bargatze and other successful comic wives
33:27 Fun tripods
34:33 Mark lighting mistake in Frisco, CO
37:15 Mark loves Gypsum, CO
40:00 Dusty Slay
41:20 Jake house show (his house!)
45:10 Mike Hammock
48:00 Comic lineups
49:40 Stage time for show/club owners
51:00 Eddie Ifft & Friends
52:00 Mark is over allocated
53:20 Plymouth Rock sucks
54:20 Costume store going out of business sale
56:00 Sober Drunk Santa dot com
57:25 Jake cold calls nursing homes
58:38 Plugs (Raanan Hershberg - Morbidly Jewish)
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Raanan Hershberg, Nursing Home cold calls, Kill Tony, Comedy Seminar, filming post event reviews, musical chairs at mountain hotels, ticket donations, Vail Fire Department, renting hotel space, comedy poster in progress, Steamboat Comedy, gondola comedy, feature privilege, school corporate gig, working out a joke to make it more dumb, mark's body is breaking down, 55+ community
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 024 - "New York City Comedy Tourist"Jan 19, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min00:00 NYC Comedy Cellar Jon Laster
03:28 Peter Revello and Ryan Hamilton
06:00 NYC is clean
08:00 ALL OUT on Broadway - Jim Gaffigan and Ben Schwartz
11:45 New York Comedy Club (Meka Mo, Rojo Perez)
15:15 Performing in NYC
17:12 Brad Upton in Louisville, KY
28:13 Comedy is a roller coaster
34:20 Comedy competitions
38:45 Denver comedy vibe
42:18 Mark business win and scheduling
45:28 Jake the Roastmaster
49:44 Comedy reviews
52:09 Eddie Ifft New Year's Eve Comedy Works
55:04 YouTube Short "Face Line" goes viral
56:10 Jake's "Bulletin" idea
1:00:18 Patreon plug
1:00:35 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Corporate pay reveal, Narcotics Anonymous Conference show, Dallas Texas comedy drama, Mike E. Winfield, Racial drama, packed to the gills, Jupiter stupider, 2026 bookings, Monique Marvez, Jake headlining in Michigan, comedy contest headliner
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 023 - "STRANGER THINGS in Venezuela"Jan 12, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake gets recruited for MMA
06:00 Wing upgrades?
07:10 Comedy Works New Talent Night
13:32 Mark submits to a festival
15:51 Limestone Comedy Festival is canceled
17:45 Mark NTN cookies
19:36 Mark gets braggadocios
21:35 Mark NTN notes
23:55 Jake submission video review
25:00 Jake is visiting Colorado
25:52 Steve Vanderploeg pyramid scheme
27:38 Stranger Things
32:56 Mark smartest move of the year!
35:32 Mark aggravation of the year
36:39 The dirt on Mark Masters
37:33 Food warning in NYC
40:19 Jake soda flex
41:05 Agree to disagreeable
42:48 CONAN booking error
44:24 Jake dumb move (Ray Lou)
46:24 Physical jokes
47:26 Jake dumb move (driving)
51:15 Movie theater worthy TV finales
53:35 New Year's resolution (teaser)
56:35 Mark 700 seat theater preview
58:32 Hacked by Chinese
59:00 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Festival reveal, Flyover Comedy Festival, World Series of Comedy 2026, Chinese Hacking screenshare, 2026 slow down year?, review score wonkiness, show gig parlance, comic name reveal, bummer booking inquiries, how many comics on a show, resolutions, another comic name reveal
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 022 - "Blackout comedy chicken wings"Jan 5, 2026 · 58 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake has wings
01:00 Water park head bob
07:45 Price is right on wings
08:06 Update on Georgetown Comedy Show (no power)
09:35 FEMA of laughs
11:42 Jake's Comedy Business idea
13:30 No alcohol comedy
14:37 New Orleans comedy business win
15:47 Mark Masters comedy club
17:10 Comedy Heights in San Diego, CA
18:10 Clean comedy guidelines
21:30 2026 Comedy projects
24:15 Austin Black
24:55 Empire, CO
25:35 250 seater in Denver
26:50 Pleasureville
30:00 Jake gets dental work
32:55 Avatar movie notes
33:35 Surprise corporate for Mark
36:05 Performing on big stage
36:50 Dane Cook child bride
39:30 Mark Masters in Northern Minnesota
41:55 Jake show in Austin, TX
48:45 700 seat theater
50:25 Best food at comedy gig
51:08 New Talent Night at Comedy Works
52:15 Denver Fringe Festival
53:50 Faxing it in
56:05 Patreon teaser
56:44 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Comedy Works New Talent Night, Five year wait to change joke, Christmas joke, Audiobook gifts, how does Patreon work?, exploring Jake's top line revenue for 2025, Jake's personality test, Mark is a tastemaker on Google Maps, Jake's 2026 Goal, Mark's show running concern, repeat comedy business, Mark says no to a show, Mark's 2026 Goal
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 021 - "Christmas movies for Pete Lee"Dec 29, 2025 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
0:00 No power comedy (Georgetown, CO)
06:30 Brandt Tobler's book "Free Roll"
08:20 Mark's Laserdisc collection management
09:10 Christmas movies (Laserdisc)
12:40 A Babe movie surprise (Christmas)
14:30 Jake teaches Mark improv comedy
27:15 Improv people money
29:25 Bad crowd work
30:20 Jake's Big idea about crowd work
32:27 Sklar Brothers
35:28 Crowd work Dry Bar
36:52 Mark and Jake Tour?
38:20 Mark's big idea - Thin Skin
39:50 Don't bet against Mark Masters
41:05 Pete Lee's 80 minute set
42:40 Jay Pharaoh story
46:35 Fiona Cauley sold-out Tuesday
47:30 Corporate gigs
49:30 Jake Funeral story (tight five)
53:20 Senior center comedy (Mark)
57:00 Jake needs to kill time
58:25 Positive roasting
59:00 Mark's Surgery gig
59:20 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Mark and Jake plan a co-hosted comedy show, Pete Lee spicy stuff, Joke stealers, should you be able to pay for jokes, day time gig money, funeral joke revealed, Georgetown comedy power update, Mark's surgery gig, filming challenges, gig versus show, headliner requirements (Mary Mack)
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 020 - "Mark tells his favorite street joke"Dec 22, 2025 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Calzone, a big hot pocket
06:04 Keto Pizza
08:40 World Trade Center 9/11
09:30 Brazzini's in Nashville, Indiana
11:00 Teenage aspiring hijacker
11:25 Holocaust Museum
12:40 Back to Calzones!
15:10 Tell me a joke
16:35 Tell them your favorite street joke
16:50 Mark tells a street joke
17:47 Jake tells a street joke
20:34 Mark tells jokes to rocket scientists
21:05 Corporate comedy secret
23:20 NORAD Cheyenne Mountain
23:55 Jokes for surgeons
24:37 Jake corporate advice
27:15 Don't Tell Comedy
29:00 Mark shares riffs
30:50 Jake tells Jeff Allen story
37:30 How to hold a microphone
41:00 Roastmaster Jake
41:30 Jake tells A Christmas Carol (1 hour)
47:15 Mark hosts New Talent Night at Comedy Works
52:00 Janae Burris crushes
56:45 Comedy Streak gimmick
59:20 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Secrets of hosting New Talent Night at Comedy Works, Jake shares the hardest part of hosting, Holiday clean at Comedy Works, Jake ranks Louisville comedy clubs, Jake reveals pay for Charles Dickens reading, Mark cashes in on a gamble with corporate talks, Mark and Jake procrastinate, gig categories, A Christmas Carol, Mark gets feedback, overheard grovels, Comedy Works gatekeeping, comics that belly ache, Comedy Works promotions
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 019 - "Big Jake Hovis is a Feature's Feature"Dec 15, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake gets screwed
06:00 Mark gets busted
11:25 Is everything meaningless?
12:17 Apollo 13 for dumb people
13:56 Mad at Target
17:38 Jake's Wife price check
19:03 Jake's Wife thrifts
20:45 Mark and Jake try to get on TV game shows
23:55 Mark does a run with Graham Kay
32:35 Comedy show running is a logic puzzle
33:50 Cody at Eagle River Brewing
34:25 Jake Crowd Works
45:35 Derrick Stroup
48:09 Brent Gill
50:44 Ben Roy
56:53 Chris Porter (feature's feature)
1:00:20 Patreon teasers
1:01:25 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Jake's big booking secret, Mark's 2025 body count (states), Mark's corporate talk money, how to get a five minute tape, Nathan Lund first ever Comedy Works headlining show, medical emergency at a comedy show, Sam Tallent headlines Comedy Works, a joke from Janae Burris, Noah Reynolds and Brody Stevens, Jake gives Mark corporate set-list composition advice
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 018 - "Dog Poop at PHX"Dec 8, 2025 · 1 hrMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
0:00 PHX dog poop
2:45 Bad holiday jokes
4:30 Jake's brother funny airport story
9:50 Mark runs the light at Comedy Works
14:30 Mark asks for this Comedy Works tape
17:00 Recording audio for comedy sets
17:45 SiriusXM
19:40 Question about money
20:15 Jake goes up at Zanies in Nashville
24:39 Thick Skin at Comedy Works
28:08 Crazy Colorado Springs story (Mark)
30:35 Elementary School businesses
34:45 Show Shoes
35:35 Stranger Things
37:43 HBO Guy
38:36 What to do while driving
41:46 Masterclass (Jake)
46:24 Jake's honest friend at shows
49:45 Chris Rock working on jokes
51:30 Getting up at Zanie's
56:30 Sending a message
56:45 Pay at Zanie's
58:58 In a green room with Nate Bargatze
59:20 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Green Room with Nate Bargatze, plus Dusty Slay, Jeremiah Watkins crowd work story at Skankfest, Dusty Slay on Tonight Show and stolen jokes, Jake asks Mark about parallel thought joke stealing (Jerry Seinfeld and Orny Adams), Chad Daniels at Comedy Works - Mark's favorite joke, Jokes about the r word, Mike Hammock and Anthony Jesselnik and joke stealing, Mark doesn't get a joke but Jake does right away, and Mark works on Surgeon jokes
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 017 - "Skankfest Gianmarco Soresi"Dec 1, 2025 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Jake gets shekels
04:54 Skankfest Comedy Festival
06:33 Beignets and soda
09:00 Airplane drink cups
11:00 Should Jake start a festival / Jake's first tape
12:50 Brad Williams
14:55 Jake does corporate shows
17:20 Comedy in a suit
19:16 Louisville Gala
22:28 Gianmarco Soresi
29:45 Jake Corporate (Mark lost internet)
33:50 Mark is an idiot (scam update)
36:16 Jacket season at TSA
36:50 Power of the common enemy
38:00 Jake event timing
43:22 3E's Comedy Club setlist
45:36 Gianmarco Soresi joke pattern
47:50 Lakewood comedy show story
53:26 Mark is annoyed (chic fit a)
56:29 Sandwich name
59:42 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: How to drop out of a gig, Nathan Lund, Skankfest name dropping, Skankfest secret bathrooms, Jeff Dye and Doug Stanhope, the best joke Jake has ever heard, Harlen Williams, Sam Tallent, Instagram counts, shotgun comedy terms, Sam Jay Shawn Gardini story, update on 18 night run accounting, Oklahoma City Jake money, Mark holiday party pay
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 016 - "Sundae Scam (Ghirardelli Dubai Chocolate)"Nov 24, 2025 · 1 hr 2 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy.
00:00 Scammed buying a Sundae
03:50 Budgeting games
06:10 Jake does another podcast (Pokemon)
10:57 Airport scam
16:57 Travel unlocks the brain
17:30 Jake gets a comedy offer(comedy union)
23:24 Sam Miller rules
24:23 Mark gets good karma
28:00 Jake works with Dale Jones (merch sales)
34:02 Jake asks Mark about merch
38:04 Dale Jones handles hecklers
39:40 Expired protein shakes
41:30 Jake eats too many nuts
44:33 Mark is an idiot (post office)
49:25 Jake talks parades
50:50 Irreverent
53:15 Mark is an idiot (tacos)
55:33 Colorado Springs comedy competition
58:55 Vail Comedy Festival submission tape reviews
1:01:00 Plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: Airport scam within a scam, Jake 5 show weekend pay, final accounting of Mark's 18 night run, does set length matter?, social media influencer does a comedy show, cancer comedy story, candy cane nightmare, driving into the sun, sleeping in fast food parking lots, opening joke is important, audience needs to like you
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 015 - "Chris Herren"Nov 17, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about ID hijinks, haircuts, measuring comedy, Sam Tallent, an existential crisis, themed comedy tours and more.
00:00 Mark and a French Mathematician
01:40 Jake speaks French?
07:36 Mark competes with World Series in Medford, OR
09:12 Mark complains about showroom seating
12:00 Medford Oregon is beautiful
12:25 Jake talks seating (Mark talks cults) + Amelia Airheart and Apple Cider Vinegar
17:22 Mark talks about Chris Herren (and prop 50 in CA)
20:50 Halloween comedy
22:46 Mark sleeps in car in San Francisco
23:52 Mr. Beast idea!
24:19 SF car and shows logistics
26:28 Mirthquake San Francisco Monday night show
30:44 Mark teases money details for Patreon and Jake talks Mirthquake (improv team)
32:40 Regular comedy customers
34:10 Jake talks Improv (money)
36:51 Mark talks "Always Bookin'" Comedy podcast (narcolepsy)
40:15 WSOC registration fees and tips and tricks for World Series of Comedy
48:03 Prop comedy and taxes
51:52 Jake library prank
54:45 Cheaper Than Therapy (comedy club show)
56:08 Dale Jones
59:30 Denver Broncos Story (Jake)
1:00:53 Patreon and plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers we cover: male comics love to gossip, negotiating an event center gig, generating contracts, a "famous" comic, a "famous" comic coincidence, Never Say Die Tour accounting, exclusive Patreon poster offer, Eeland Stribling, Deep Cover movie (spoilers), Tom Dustin, comedy concessions, surprise pay, Roofman movie
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 014 - "Enthusiastic Eccliastics"Nov 10, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about ID hijinks, haircuts, measuring comedy, Sam Tallent, an existential crisis, themed comedy tours and more.
00:00 Totalitarian state
01:53 Jake fails at pumping his own gas
03:30 Don't hold the door for Jake
04:49 Escalating sneeze dialog
06:15 A little person no-show
12:09 In the weeds about 6-7
13:35 Jake tells an ID story
18:04 Mark tells a roller coaster food story / senior center comedy / "Always Bookin' Comedy" podcast
22:16 Seattle is Asia Central
22:55 Jake tells a haircut story
28:54 Measuring comedy objectively
32:32 Sam Tallent (Mark "judges" one of his jokes)
37:55 Annoying Washington trees
39:15 Mark has an existential crisis
43:20 Asking how many years have you been doing comedy
46:15 6-7
46:30 Mark's existential crisis is resolved
47:52 Themed comedy shows
51:30 Greek grammarian
55:55 Enthusiastic Eccliastics
59:35 Patreon teaser and plugs
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers Mark talks about Never Say Die tour budget recap, social media influencer show recap, working at a BARK ENTERTAINMENT Comedy Club, asking for a guest set, politics of Denver Comedy Works, versus deals, merch as a feature (with photo), Auctioneer gig, review nightmare, YouTube shorts, and AI clips (Mark's opinion).
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 013 - "Cooper Flagg ice cream"Nov 3, 2025 · 1 hr 4 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about the Denver Broncos, a theater show in Idaho, Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival, the Good Fortune movie, Salt Lake City, an explanation of evangelical, drinking comedy shows, digital billboard with Mark Masters on it, Deep Cover movie, Stavros Halkias, Cooper Flagg, Jerry Seinfeld and more.
00:00 Jake does a weird interview
12:47 Broncos never say die - Mark goes to a game
15:00 Show in Bremerton, WA
15:48 Should Mark take a night off?
16:32 Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival networking turns into a gig
19:10 Mark talks about sleeping in his car
19:42 Good Fortune movie teaser for Patreon
20:00 Salt Lake City, UT
20:25 Mark's genius plan to boost comedy income
21:08 Mark talks about a run with Short Jake
22:06 Bringing equipment to gigs
24:05 Jake talks about bringing equipment to gigs (Nashville and negotiation)
26:18 Holiday weekend gigs
27:20 MP3 player
28:00 Twin Falls, Idaho show
32:35 Merch sales
34:00 Not Good Yet book
35:12 Richland, WA show
37:18 Jake has two very different shows (and explains to Mark what evangelical means)
48:59 Amuse Booze - Denver show in memoriam
50:40 Mark has a question for Jake about a spot at a big chain club
54:16 Mark is on a digital billboard
55:20 Deep Cover movie
55:49 Mark gets recognized
57:20 Mark tells a Stavros Halkias story (Stavvy)
58:00 Mark tells a Jerry Seinfeld ice cream story (Cooper Flagg)
59:10 Jake tells a story about a Best Of show
1:02:36 Wrapping it up (Mark's poster is displayed)
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
https://www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
https://www.bigjakecomedy.com
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This week for Patreon subscribers Mark talks about a bad show, we discuss negotiating money for a show (with specific dollar amounts), and cover the question: how much do you charge?, Mark reveals details about his senior center show booking, Jake reveals details about one of his shows, Mark tells a crowd work story, they both diver deep into the Good Fortune movie, and Mark does an impression of a brown guy (with voice)
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 012 - "don't be the funniest person in your scene"Oct 27, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about Kentucky Fried Chicken history, an interaction with a cop, making yourself a presence in a secondary comedy scene, Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival, becoming a Comedy Store door guy, Mark's "Never Say Die" tour, pinball machines and more.
00:00 DMV Vending Machine
02:30 Jake Colfax Avenue Moving Day Story
05:12 Mark gets pulled over
06:40 Get "Anxiety Club" movie at Jolt.film
10:10 Comedy in French Lick, IN
12:40 Frisco, CO Comedy Show (part of Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival)
13:50 Jake runs a hotel for a week
14:40 Turning off pinball machines
17:10 Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival is different
20:00 Zack Chapaloni talks to comics and gives advice
23:20 Mark Masters live in Denver
24:30 Jake explores "moving" to a secondary scene
26:30 Out of town comic hack
28:10 Crackers Comedy Club in Indianapolis, IN
34:10 Zack Chapaloni advice - don't be the funniest person in your scene
43:00 Comedy Story "Door Guys"
46:30 Jake talks about word economy
49:05 Mark asks Jake if any jokes did not go well in Frisco, CO
51:45 Mark talks about a barber shop comedy show with Jenny Zigrino
54:28 Dirty Dr. Pepper with nutmeg, maple syrup and heavy cream
56:45 Patreon teasers
58:30 Mark gets a nice email and reads it
59:35 Mark has a minor celebrity at his show
1:00:18 Mark shows his "Never Say Die" tour poster and shares upcoming dates
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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This week for Patreon subscribers we reveal a Kill Tony bucket spot person, mental health, inside ticket sales of Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival, a new marketing secret for comedy shows, and we work on some new and old jokes.
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 011 - "wristband shenanigans"Oct 20, 2025 · 1 hr 1 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about talking to a fan after a show, comedian websites, drive through fast food tipping thoughts, a show in Park City, Utah with a surprise parking twist, comedy intermissions, Con Air and David Chappelle, flying show running equipment with Pelican cases, a joke at 1 Night Stans in Michigan gets punched up, the guys share some raccoon facts and write some jokes live for Mark's upcoming charity event benefitting the rehabilitation of raccoons, and more.
00:00 Jake does a show where the host does not show up
03:00 Comedy Club architecture
03:30 Mark makes a mistake scheduling an 18 show run
06:50 Mark tells a crazy Comedy Works story
10:48 Jake's heart sinks with a booking situation / government shutdown
13:25 USO military comedy tours
13:54 Cruise ship comedy tours
16:56 Grand Rapids, MI early ticket sales
17:55 Versailles, Kentucky
18:38 Cocktail lab comedy show
22:54 Aspen story with a cocktail twist (wristbands)
30:40 Working at Louisville Comedy Club (wristbands)
34:25 Mark does an all-woman show
37:06 Kill Tony golden ticket
42:25 Kill Tony clones and 1 minute spots (Colin Quinn)
45:20 Comedy cassette tapes
47:00 Jeff Foxworthy
49:00 Jake does a show with Ron White
50:30 Ricky Valez story (Dan Soder) - Comedy Works
54:20 Nate Baratze Porsche story
55:10 Mark on open mics, Showcase of the Mondays
57:45 Jake is the best of Louisville (local comedian)
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we reveal a Kill Tony bucket spot person, mental health, inside ticket sales of Mountain Fresh Comedy Festival, a new marketing secret for comedy shows, and we work on some new and old jokes.
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It (Elon Altman) Episode 010Oct 13, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minSpecial guest Elon Altman from New York City!
Mark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about... and more.
00:00 Introducing Elon Altman
00:30 Elon Altman Tries To Make It
01:32 Jake and Elon discuss if NYC open mics are bad
03:05 A mouse that churns
03:55 How to get good in NYC comedy
07:30 Industry at bringer shows
08:10 Taking comedy more seriously
09:45 Al Martin owner of the New York Comedy Club
12:35 Laughing Buddha mics
13:50 Comedians that are 10x your level
14:20 Derrick Stroup (Jake story)
18:45 More about Al Martin (Emilio and Scott)
20:05 Comic Strip Audition
21:10 Late Night at Comic Strip
22:50 Eddie Murphy manager
24:18 Gotham Comedy Live on AXS TV
25:00 Doesn't matter how early you show up (Jake)
26:30 Elon running shows?
28:10 Comic vs. Producer
29:50 Pick one club or many?
31:30 Brendon Sagalow
33:18 Getting out of NYC with festivals (Laughing Derby, Red Clay)
36:00 The Jewish Circuit (Private clean shows)
39:55 Worst possible intro for a comedy show
41:10 Bringing opener to private
41:55 Regular club spots and lies to fill in the crowd
45:00 Ray Liota in audience
47:08 Bill Burr story (Elon)
48:10 Roast Battle (NY Comedy Club and The Stand)
52:00 Comedy Cellar momentum until ...
52:50 Zoom shows
54:00 Modi (opening for)
57:15 Comedy Cellar Recommendation
58:30 Comedy Cellar Audition
1:01:25 Schtick or Treat - Ozempic Ralphie May
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
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This week for Patreon subscribers Elon talks about his Comedy Cellar audition, Jake tells us a bad comedy review story and Mark shares an all time yearly low for his comedy.
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 009Oct 6, 2025 · 58 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about talking to a fan after a show, comedian websites, drive through fast food tipping thoughts, a show in Park City, Utah with a surprise parking twist, comedy intermissions, Con Air and David Chappelle, flying show running equipment with Pelican cases, a joke at 1 Night Stans in Michigan gets punched up, the guys share some raccoon facts and write some jokes live for Mark's upcoming charity event benefitting the rehabilitation of raccoons, and more.
00:00 Nate Bargatze in Denver - Fist Fight
02:05 Records broken by Nate Bargatze
04:04 Recognition Laughter (Nate Bargatze)
05:38 Buying Tickets (Nate Bargatze)
07:25 Ticketmaster ticket fees (Nate Bargatze)
11:10 Opening Acts (Nate Bargatze) -- PATREON has names
12:00 How to measure your success on stage
14:20 Jake Denver Nuggets story
17:00 Arena Comedy
19:50 Crowd work comedian trash talk (name in PATREON)
21:55 Trash show story - game show concept show
24:45 Can you joke about Charlie Kirk
26:00 Writing topical jokes
28:15 Shut up everybody
30:00 Comedy competition attitude
31:00 A Charlie Kirk joke
32:10 Joe List at the Comedy Works in Denver
33:40 Luke Mones (SNL on stage)
34:17 Comedy Works New Talent teaser (PATREON)
36:30 Frisco Comedy Show - stuck in traffic with Monica Nevis and Alvin Kuai
39:50 Do social media ads work to sell tickets
44:17 Tour dates on comedy website - Steven Rogers
46:38 Dustin Nickerson story
50:36 Mark gets offered a bad gig and comedy pay
54:00 Salt in a wound
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
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This week for Patreon subscribers we talk about something crazy that happened at Comedy Works New Talent Night, a secret to making money in comedy, Nate bargatze openers with names and Jake spills about another comedian.
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 008 - "Dumb Comedy Wins"Sep 29, 2025 · 1 hr 6 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about talking to a fan after a show, comedian websites, drive through fast food tipping thoughts, a show in Park City, Utah with a surprise parking twist, comedy intermissions, Con Air and David Chappelle, flying show running equipment with Pelican cases, a joke at 1 Night Stans in Michigan gets punched up, the guys share some raccoon facts and write some jokes live for Mark's upcoming charity event benefitting the rehabilitation of raccoons, and more.
00:00 Jake tells a story about a show
03:30 Dave Chappelle in Con-Air
05:05 Jake's Website
12:05 Park City, Utah (Mark)
15:45 Mark gets a parking ticket
19:30 Don't Tell Comedy Show (Mark is headliner)
24:30 Intermissions in comedy
28:45 Tip Jar comedy shows
33:00 Drive-Thru tipping
35:00 "Free Apples"
37:30 Can you make it from NYC in comedy
43:00 Mark produces a fly-in show?
48:30 Mark helps Jake with a joke follow-up
51:30 Dumb Comedy Wins
52:00 Mark and Jake workshop a joke
55:30 Raccoon facts into jokes for Mark's corporate
1:05:17 Wrapping up
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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Big Jake Hovis
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This week for Patreon subscribers we talk about the Joe List film "Portrait of a Comedian" and Mark talks about how much he is paid to headline a Don't Tell Comedy show in Park City, UT
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 007 - "Shorts on stage"Sep 22, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about Jake's questionable meal at a comedy club involving Nate Bargatze, Sunflowers, sleeping in your car, B's House in Mountain Home Idaho, stage wardrobe decisions, a laserdisc on camera, the movie Punch Line with Tom Hanks and Sally Field plus Damon Wayans, the new standup movie Is This Thing On, doing an open mic with Chloe Radcliffe, a Joe List film project and more.
00:00 NATELAND meal choice (Jake)
05:00 Zanies Nashville
10:00 Chocolate Chip Cookies with Tahini
11:00 Comedy Works South, Mark goes to a show
14:00 Gabriel Ruttedge
18:52 Punch Line movie with Tom Hanks and Sally Field
23:30 "Is This Thing On?" movie with Bradley Cooper and Chloe Radcliffe
24:45 Bad NYC Open Mic story (Mark)
29:00 Jake is a big guy
31:40 Complaining about audience size (Tiffany Haddish)
34:15 Shorts on stage (Sam Tallent)
41:30 Mark sees his joke on stage
43:45 Workshopping a Jake joke
45:20 Sunflowers
47:00 Laserdisc and VHS
50:00 How old to start comedy (Zoltan, Dave Chappelle, Matt Rife)
57:00 Portrait of a Comedian (Joe List)
57:47 Body Wash
1:00:10 Horse on Highway
1:02:00 Wrapping Up
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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Big Jake Hovis
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- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 006Sep 15, 2025 · 1 hr 5 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about unwritten rules for features, The Soda Barn, Sweetwater factory tour, a McDonalds app fail, getting paid in cash, material selection for comedy competitions, a UPS store debacle, Soda Springs, Idaho geyser, some joke tips and more.
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
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Big Jake Hovis
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- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 005Sep 8, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about Kill Tony, killer movies and the decade they are from, a Richard Gere movie surprise, going solo to the movies, Cheesecake Factory gift cards, Mark has a bad show and Jake gets foiled by a football parade trying to make it to a club, and more.
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
bigjakecomedy.com
@bigjakehovis
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 004Sep 1, 2025 · 1 hr 4 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about Cryptocurrency, Taylor Swit and Travis Kelce, the Savannah Bannanas, sharing hotel rooms, competitions, booking venues and more.
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
bigjakecomedy.com
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It Episode 003Aug 25, 2025 · 1 hr 5 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about bounced comedy club checks, buying fountain soda, telling comics they aren't good, a flavor of soda that is an "abomination", gaming holiday gigs, booking big acts and ripe mangos.
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are mostly clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
bigjakecomedy.com
@bigjakehovis
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It - Episode 002Aug 18, 2025 · 1 hr 7 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about the Savannah Bananas, taking comedy too seriously, how to know when you've made it, joke notebooks, Jake has a new joke about Pokenmon, Mark loses his mind about a credit card interaction and more.
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
bigjakecomedy.com
@bigjakehovis
- Mark and Jake Try To Make It - Episode 001Aug 11, 2025 · 1 hr 3 minMark and Jake Try to Make it is your favorite podcast about two comedians trying to make it in comedy. This episode has stories about soup, booking holiday corporate gigs, dealing with agents, how to measure comedy improvement and more.
Mark Masters and Big Jake Hovis are clean comedians, available for your event, contact us with info below:
Mark Masters
www.markmasters.co (contact form)
Big Jake Hovis
bigjakecomedy.com
@bigjakehovis
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