A lot of people will wonder how this comic started. I’ll go over the history here.
A long time ago, I had this idea that the CIA had an internal forum/messaging board like something awful available to them. They were permitted to shitpost in a forum-appropriate way, and there would be threads full of memes that nobody besides anyone who worked at the CIA would understand. I’m talking scumbag Steve’s of random foreign policy experts and stuff like that.
That idea evolved into something else.
I then started imagining, and writing, what would happen if the CIA opened up a ‘after hours comedy lounge’ inside their HQ at Langley. All the stand up was still very work appropriate, but it was something only CIA understood.
I’ll give you examples of some of the stand up bits.
Q: What’s the worst part about being CIA?
A: Being Correct
I always imagined that working at the CIA meant that you had to give people the correct answer every time no matter what. That was just the job’s expectations. Career’s at the CIA, I always imagined, were always ending because you correctly identify the issue that causes the failure but because you have no legal authority to compel the person to change their behavior, you would just end up getting blamed.