![]() Paste Magazine: How did you wind up doing comedy at a comic book shop? As Gordon tells us, “from watching the first season people know what the show is like, so comics brought more weird, fun, conceptual bits.” We recently talked to Ray and Gordon about both the show and the stand-up community in Los Angeles Nanjiani couldn’t make it, because he was presumably shooting a dozen TV shows that afternoon. Its second season promises an even more nontraditional take on stand-up. Instead of brick walls and two drink minimums, we can now catch some of the best stand-up comedians in the world in a storage room that used to be filled with longboxes filled with comic books. ![]() With its anarchic spirit and nontraditional venue, The Meltdown is like a microcosm of how the stand-up industry has changed since Comedy Central launched in 1989. Ray, Nanjiani and producer/booker Emily Gordon have been hosting a weekly comedy night at Meltdown Comics for five years, and Comedy Central turned it into a half-hour show in 2014. It’s a rapid-fire burst of comedy, featuring four or five comics in each twenty-one minute (or so) episode, along with Ray and his co-host Kumail Nanjiani, who you might recognize from Silicon Valley and every other show you’ve watched in the last two years. ![]() The Meltdown’s not a typical stand-up showcase: shot in the back room of a comic book shop in Los Angeles, it mixes short stand-up clips from a handful of comedians with backstage clips and conversations. “We did a good job this season of having it be a bit more loose and a bit more chaotic,” Jonah Ray says about The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail’s second season, which starts tonight on Comedy Central.
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