Don't Quit Your Day Job is the weirdest game I have ever played, a game created by combining real video with computer generated graphics and powered by Macromedia Director's multimedia authoring tools. The game casts you as a talented agent hired to scout and book one of two comics, doorman Dolan Delatorre or waitress Shirley Felcker, who both work at the same comedy club in Los Angles. Dolan is from New York and talks with an Italian accent and Shirley is ambitious trying to become something. Anyway, whomever you choose, your job is to ensure that your comic is chosen for a stand-up spot on The Johnny K. Show and that is your ticket to win this game.

The gameplay mostly consist of exploring and talking to scores of people standing or sitting in the club but be vigilante as talking to wrong person or right person at the wrong time will send you to Hell's Basement, a long corridor with many doors opening to many challenging puzzles. These puzzles vary from very hard puzzles to most complex puzzles to arcade puzzles to crappy word puzzles and to puzzles, which are really hard to explain in words. Once you solve a puzzle, you will return back upstairs to the place you left. In fact, these puzzles or arcade challenges can be taken as mini-games, which are nothing to do with the main game. Dialogues and comments are quite humorous but sometime become real harsh. Visually, the game runs in a smooth 360-degree panned environment, where a snicker sign when appear shows the direction one can move in. Music and sound is very good and atmospheric. Overall, this is an average adventure game, which may be skipped if you have something better in view.