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        <title><![CDATA[Stand-up comedians are performing at socially distanced drive-in movie theaters]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drive-in entertainment is having a moment.</p><p>The Bel Aire Diner, which has recently experienced <strong>wild success</strong> with its drive-in movies, is not only reviving the retro film-watching format, but applying it to live comedy shows.</p><p>Less than a month after kicking off its drive-in series with a screening of &#8220;Grease,&#8221; the Astoria eatery hosted a stand-up show in its adjacent parking lot Tuesday. &#8220;Bel Aire was laughing out loud today when the comics came to town,&#8221; the family-owned diner <strong>posted following the event.</strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Such a fun and interesting evening out.&#8221;</p><p>For the comedy drive-in, a lineup of comedians with credentials including &#8220;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,&#8221; Comedy Central and Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;The Degenerates&#8221; stood in the bed of a pickup and delivered their lines to a lot of some 45 socially distanced cars. Audience members paid $32 a car to attend.</p><p>&#8220;This is like a Zoom show except there&#8217;s no delay on the laughter. There&#8217;s just no laughter,&#8221; one performer joked. The audience instead expressed their approval by honking, shouting and slapping the roofs of their cars.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to be back on stage&#8221; one comedian commented of the experience, adding that the new pandemic performance format would still take some getting used to.</p><p>For their sets, comedians leaned into the <strong>coronavirus</strong> theme.</p><p>&#8220;Face masks, I like it, everybody staying safe. If you have one in your car, please take it off,&#8221; joked a performer, to honking. &#8220;You don&#8217;t [have to wear one], in your car, unless you don&#8217;t trust the person you came with, and then, we got problems people.&#8221;</p><p>The diner has been blown away by the response to their events, which sell out within seconds of making tickets available.</p><p>“We’re like The Beatles now,” the Bel Aire&#8217;s manager, Kal Dellaportas, tells The Post. &#8220;I can’t imagine that after social-distancing guidelines are relaxed, it continues to be a thing.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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