I suspect Greg Gutfeld’s use of the name “after party” is a blessing in disguise. I’m sure EVERYONE in LA and the movie and theater business knows what an After Party is and has warm fuzzy feelings about it. But I would have to use up half my elevator pitch explaining what an “after party” is to at least a quarter of the people I could try to recruit into it. And I definitely would have to explain, because I don’t dare let them investigate themselves since…
The 3rd entry for “DEFINE AFTER PARTY” on Google is:
“A party after a party, a party when girls and guys get naughty and have drugs.”
Now, Bill, I don’t think that is what you meant when you liked the name… it doesn’t matter. That’s what people are going to see when they look it up, and that will turn off a LOT of people in various demographics from Social Conservatives to Hard Working Immigrant Families. I’m sure it will appeal greatly to the L.A. film industry crowd, salespeople, and the rave-attending theater majors. But just as with the Patriot Party, something that has wonderful connotations to one group may be either weird or a turn-off to others. I think After Party is one of those, but it just happens that you and Mr. Gutfeld are both in the demographics who attend After Parties and have warm fuzzy memories of some great ones.
BTW, the fact that the third entry in Google describes it as a post party drug and fornication event means that there are probably a lot of people who do actually use the term After Party to mean that exact thing. So best case, half the people in America would think an After Party is a cool thing, a quarter wouldn’t know what it is and would be confused, and a quarter would think it is something that they’ve been trying to keep their daughter from getting mixed up in.
I want to make it clear that I’m not saying so many people don’t go to After Parties because they are sticks in the mud. Most people have no need for what you consider an After Party because they are not required to attend parties with people they don’t like doing things they don’t enjoy but pretending to have fun to network in their careers. In most of the country if you get invited to Boudreaux’s crawfish boil or Mike’s BBQ or Nguyen’s lunar festival or Susan’s pot-luck it is because they want to spend time with you and if you go it is because you want to spend time with them. There’s no need for a ‘real party’ after the fake pretend-I-like-these-people-because-I-have-to-then-ditch-them party because they wouldn’t throw the latter or attend yours in a million years.
P.S. Weirdly while assuming After Party is universally understood the way you think of it, the “High Class Problem” expression that you seemed to think was a Hollywood term I have heard used all over, including the oil patch in deep Texas.