Hello, we’re Get Off Live comedy, we are an industry-funded independent HR service that aims to eradicate sexual harassment within live comedy. Up to now we’ve been reliant on whisper networks and personal judgment, these are not fair or reliable, we think a formalised independent body is lacking, so here we are! 

 

Sexual harassment is a problem within every environment. Still, we’re confident there are enough people working in comedy that want our workplace to be safe and happy that we can make real industry and cultural changes to ensure harassment is no longer an accepted “occupational hazard”.

 

In order to hold ourselves to account, we conducted the first-ever anonymous survey of the live comedy industry in relation to sexual harassment. The aim is to use this data to dedicate resources to where they are most needed and to assess the scope of the problem. 

 

We don’t pretend that we can cure sexual harassment and assault overnight but we do think we can make long-term meaningful change even if it starts incrementally and at the end of the day we need to try, don’t we? The first step towards this was completing the survey so thanks so much for this, you’re making a big difference and we hope we can do the same for you. 

 

Get Off Live Comedy would like to extend special thanks to everyone who responded to our survey and took part in focus groups to help us shape our services