If the answer is yes, the question is then narrowed down to two locations, New York or Los Angeles. Before I made my decision I wanted to evaluate the pros and cons of each location and figured the best way to go about this was to shop my survey around to other comedians. The first comedian I posed this question to was slightly displeased with the direction his career had taken. After wiping the spittle from my face, I nodded in agreement, more out of fear than comprehension. The other answers I got were not quite as frightening, but just as useful.
Rational answers are often hard to come by in the world of comedy.
People seemed very divided and their answers were mostly skewed by their personal experiences. It seemed that those who had suffered some sort of failure in either city were more likely to recommend the other city. Unfortunately, those that had experienced success in either city were busy working somewhere in that city and weren't around to be questioned. In the end, I realized that I had already made my choice and knew where I wanted to go. I had lived in Southern California, but had never experienced life in New York.