Probably little else needs to be said about this Crain's article describing comedy troupe's intermingling with advertising except that, umm, when you join a theater company, isn't that what you do? Attempt to rely on butts in seats and then work real hard as a waiter to actually pay off the bills?
Also, that I have been reading S. J. Perelman lately. And on the topic of those persons whom, for wont of another way to pay off their hotell bills, don costumes and parade about town in an effort to expand sales of, say, peanuts, or chicken sausage, or motor oil, he had this to say (albeit in the satirized voice of one such practitioner):
