Name: Why Are Ticketmaster Fees So High?
Uploaded: 2024-12-18T14:00:55.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Are Ticketmaster Fees So High?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Are Ticketmaster Fees So High?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-12-18. Transcript available.

yo theo this is harley from portland oregon man what's up harley and i had a
great time up there
we did a show out there in portland uh which is a great city let me say that
people are always like
there's antifas up there you know you know larping in the park it's just a
bunch of leftover antifa
and blm activists and people you know adults wearing baby diapers up there larping
in the
park and sword fighting and doing makeshift renaissance fairs up there and shit
and damn
george foreman grilling every meal and shit but i thought it was an amazing
city on but i'd never i
just hadn't it was just it really shocked me how how special it was yeah there's
a naked guy pushing
himself you know pushing himself in a you know and he's like you know has a
boat oar and he's going
down the street in a um a uh adult baby carriage or whatever but it's there's
it's awesome i thought
it was really really groovy i really like portland oregon um what'd you have to
say brother sorry i
interrupted you there let's hear more um i i really appreciate the way that
that you peddle
your tickets the way that you uh encourage people to not use secondhand sites
because you know you
don't want to you don't want people paying more than they should to come see
you i understand that
and i really respect that yeah totally well a lot of times what happens is
people will look up
a ticket right want to go to the show this city this date or whatever and then
other secondary sites
that are reselling tickets will put them will pay more to get their searching
higher on google and
stuff like that and so then you click there and you're not really paying an
origin you don't even
have an option at a at a regular price ticket if there's still any available onward
but then i go to
your your website man and i see that uh theovan.com slash tour is redirected to
ticket master and i'm
just curious man you know the the people absolutely hate ticket master oh yeah
and i'm one of the
people brother i hate them i hate them it's a they've been running this scam
forever so i don't know how
we get a politician that is going to break up the monopoly that's very obvious
i don't know how you get
that done you know i would love to have a ticket broker on this year maybe we
can find start delving
into the dark depths of all that because yes it's a monopoly it's sick it's
sick that you could take
three of your friends to a show but now you can only take one because the fees
are astronomical
we don't see any money from the fees artists don't
you know it's just the same people it's these big companies who owns ticket
master
you look that up for me
live nation entertainment so there you go ticket master is a wholly owned
subsidiary of live nation
um which is headquartered in beverly hills uh yeah well i think one of the
issues
who's the owner of live nation i wonder
vanguard well here's this is fucking hilarious zoom in on this a little bit
liberty media corporation is the largest shareholder of live nation
entertainment owning 30 percent of the
other major shareholders include vanguard owns 8.3 percent black rock advisors
owns 5.5 percent
um
so there you go it's the same people that own everything
so that's why you're getting fucked because they own everything they own the
building that the show is in
sometimes and then they own the website and uh they don't care they don't care
that's the bottom line they don't care they don't care that it takes more money
out of your pocket
and mine if i buy tickets somewhere they don't they don't care they want money
that's all they want um so yeah that hurts my heart man nothing i can do about
it man
you know and maybe one day there'll be a better way to do it uh i know zach bryan
tried a unique
method through a axs i think ticketing um but it hasn't shown up yet or a way
that's definitely
definitively saves people that money um but yeah those people are robbing
people and that's what it is
and uh but we have a government that continues to allow that sort of business
behavior um especially
when they have a monopoly on the market yeah that's just those are my feelings
to me it feels like it's
bullshit to you calling i'm sure to everybody listening i'd love to have an
extra 40 uh from
ticket and fees to go get me a soda or something get me a little uh butterfinger
or something get mom
the payday or whatever she likes eating she can't even hear the fucking show
she's over here
cheaper to get her a ticket than put her in dang hospice or whatever
you know she's over here you know listening to uh whatever we're watching you
know metallic on ice
or whatever over here you know or ice spice on ice or whatever who knows what
the hell they're doing
now you know now it's they have a new anxiety on ice as a new performance for
kids like what
what are we even taking our kids to it's big pharma anxiety on ice brought to
you by live nation and
pfizer dude that's what we're doing i mean yeah people at least aren't blind to
it um praise god
brother thank you for the call and yeah i'm sorry about it too man let me hear
the end let me hear what
what you have to say i'm sorry and i i personally would not go see a show just
because it's being
sold strictly for ticket matters so i was curious if there was some kind of way
that that we could get
away from from these big corporations and um and and hopefully by getting away
from them you know you
could get a more more of a percentage of ticket sales and that that yeah
totally i mean those venues they
could give away to something they could do something you know um they also yeah
they charge people for
parking a lot of times or it's just that's but some of it is business but that
part i believe is
egregious that's how i feel but no as of right now i don't know another way um
you know i could look into it though maybe one day i'll have you know i could
own venues with other
people and we could just do the shows there at our own venues and we wouldn't
sell tickets and we
wouldn't uh gouge people on those prices or maybe you'd find one politician
that would just run
simply on the fact that they're going to say hey those guys we're not going to
let them do it we're
going to figure out a way so it's just those greedy companies and dirty lawyers
i believe
um but also there may be stuff i don't know about it they may need an extra 42
a ticket
to send you that email so i might be off um what else sorry am i getting
negative there