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Staff Photo by Matt Hamilton/Comedian Dan Pulzello performs during the Carpetbagger's Comedy Night at the Bode lodging in Chattanooga on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022.

An odd aftereffect of the pandemic is that Chattanooga's satire club scene had a chance in the arm. A joke poke, in a manner of speaking.

Consistently, joke artists from New York City assemble here to play a spring up satire show in the entryway of Bode, a shop lodging at 730 Chestnut St. They make it happen, to a limited extent, as recognition for a companion, Jeff Greenspan, a small, self-depicted "gay, Jewish person" who escaped New York for Chattanooga during the principal wave of the pandemic in 2020 and never moved back.

Greenspan, 51, credits his move here, partially, to being shown a two-room North Shore condominium available to be purchased. It was unit No. 420 (incidentally, what could be compared to a mysterious handshake in cannabis culture), and the property was addressed by a realtor named Michael Jackson. Greenspan accepting the two realities as signs from the parody divine beings that he expected to migrate here right away.

Additionally, Greenspan said, he purchased the apartment suite since he understood he could involve it as a headquarters for his jokester companions - some youngster, some more settled. A couple were at that point working greater satire rooms in Atlanta and Nashville. While they have arrived, some figure out how to clock a little stage time a couple of squares away at The Comedy Catch at the Chattanooga Choo, the city's predominant satire club.

Before long, some of New York's assessed 5,000 "working" funnies, the majority of whom had never been to Tennessee, were discussing "the Chattanooga run" and involving the Scenic City as a center point for possibly 14 days of exhibitions around the South.

Through power of will, Greenspan has made a two times month to month, Friday night satire show he calls "Opportunist's Comedy Night," where clients pay 10 bucks to devour a parody buffet highlighting New York (and local) entertainers.

"The explanation I come [to Chattanooga] is that he minds so a lot," said Eric Neumann, an exceptional New York-put together joke artist who has showed up with respect to Comedy Central, Netflix and simply keep going week on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." "Everything begins with Jeff. It's cool to begin in a more modest market and help develop the satire scene.

"New York is the significant associations. It's incredibly cutthroat and once in a while very overwhelming. In some cases you have a superior shot of making it elsewhere."

Added Dan Pulzello, another New York joke artist who shows up on Greenspan's shows here, "Not much, however I had never known about Chattanooga before Jeff."