Comedian Andrew Schulz refused to bow down and censor his comedy special for Amazon, and decided to launch it on his own, and the decision is already bearing fruit with more than a million dollars.
Schulz recently revealed that the honchos of a streaming playback service were “scared” when they saw the material he wanted to include in his next comedy special. , abortion, and Michael Jackson Schulz claimed the honchos told him to remove sensitive things or that they could not release them to users.
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We spoke to sources close to Schulz who tell us he was buying the special on Amazon and Netflix (Amazon made the highest bid), but then withdrew after Schulz refused to remove the triggering content.
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Now, Schulz has decided to post the special for fans through his $ 15 ticket website. We are told that on the first day alone it earned $ 500,000 in sales and has earned over a million dollars in less than a week.
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Our sources say that as the tickets are sold, he will do more than his deal with Amazon was in the first place.
We have to keep in mind that he has partnered with Moment House to sell his tickets, the same company that is behind the Justin Bieber and Kygo shows, and they tell us that he has already broken sales records.
Of course, Schulz’s back and forth comes after a lot of tension between customers and streamers like Netflix. You’ll remember, Dave Chappelle and Netflix took a lot of heat for the transphobic material in their recent special “The Closer”.