Comedy and Covid 19: the lessons for investors

As Covid-19 drives everyone indoors, live comedy is turning to technology to solve the problem of performing in a lockdown. It’s just one sector among many redefining the way we live and work, says Dominic Frisby.

Woman laughin in a comedy audience © Felix Kunze/Redferns
Will comedy ever be the same again? © Getty
(Image credit: Woman laughin in a comedy audience © Felix Kunze/Redferns)

An economy is not some electrical gadget that you can switch off, then switch back on a few months later, and expect to pick up exactly where you left off.

Rightly or wrongly, lockdown has done untold damage to so many industries. Travel, hotels, cruise ships, pubs, clubs, entertainment, sports theatres, concerts, shopping malls… There is still a school of thought that thinks Covid will pass and we can go back to where we were. It ain’t going to happen, even if a cure is found tomorrow.

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Dominic Frisby

Dominic Frisby (“mercurially witty” – the Spectator) is as far as we know the world’s only financial writer and comedian. He is the author of the popular newsletter the Flying Frisby and is MoneyWeek’s main commentator on gold, commodities, currencies and cryptocurrencies. He has also taken several of his shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

His books are Daylight Robbery - How Tax Changed our Past and Will Shape our Future; Bitcoin: the Future of Money? and Life After the State - Why We Don't Need Government

Dominic was educated at St Paul's School, Manchester University and the Webber-Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art. You can follow him on X @dominicfrisby