After serving as an assistant district attorney in New York for two years, Kasper gave up on the legal world and headed west to do stand-up. They both teach about six traffic-school classes a month for the Improv Traffic School. Stand-up ain't what it used to be. Things have definitely changed since the big comedy boom in the 1980s. Everyone wants to be the next Drew Carey or Ellen Degeneres, but there's a real imbalance with supply and demand.
Different factors draw comedians into the role of traffic instructor.
Larit became an instructor for the practice. It's baptism by fire. People come to a comedy club to laugh. They're drunk, they have dates, and they're happy. On the flip side, at traffic school, you've got 35 or 40 people who've paid hundreds of dollars for a traffic ticket, they're blowing the weekend, and they don't want to be there.