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Glick's Comedy Lounge: Heather Kemps
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Glick is joined comedian Heather Kemps crashes the couch with wild stories, sharp punches, and enough chaos to make ya WIFI nervous Pull up a seat and prepare to laugh irresponsibly Glick's Comedy Lounge: Comedy Unleashed
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Glick's Comedy Lounge Introduction
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a chair, grab a drink, settle in Tonight's where the stories and the nonsense begin
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Comics and friends, yeah, the mic's turned on Half the joke's playing, half totally wrong Backstage stories, things we shouldn't say we're gonna laugh about them anyway Hey, welcome to Glick's Comedy Lounge Where the jokes go wild and the laughs get loud
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Hey, pull a seat, stay all night long
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guests on the couch with a wild tale to tell from the road the stage or a barroom hell
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The crowd's getting loud and the stories get strange.
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No scripts here, just the truth and the laughs. And maybe a roast if you cross Glick's path. Hey, welcome to Glick's Comedy Lounge. Where the jokes go wild and the laughs get loud.
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Pull a seat, stay all night long Tell a crazy story, sing along to the song
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Hey, welcome to Glick's Comedy Lounge Where the jokes go out and the laughs get loud
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Pull up a seat, stay all night long. Tell a crazy story, sing along to the song.
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So good, I've got to hear it twice.
Setting the Tone for the Show
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What's going on, everybody? Happy Tuesday. No, it's Wednesday. Sorry. My bad, guys. It's home day. My days are all fucked up. I'm all over the place.
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Happy be Wednesday. And welcome to Glick's Comedy Lounge. A little comedy unleashed, if you will. Hopefully you guys are having a good week so far.
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You're halfway there. We've almost made it. It's almost the weekend.
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And give us a follow. We greatly appreciate that. But enough about us and enough about me. know. know. I know. I'm easy on the eyes and I'm fun to listen to, but that's beside the end.
Introducing Serenity Kemp
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We're here for the comedy. I am not a professional stand-up comedian, nor have I ever claimed to be, but I'm one hell of a podcast host and an even better interviewer, and that's why we have our guest tonight coming to hang out with us. I believe she is new into the comedy scene, so we're going to see what what's going on in her world and how she's enjoying the scene so far. Miss Serenity Kemp's.
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I hope I said your name right. I should asked you that. You did. It's okay. I'm not professional either, so it's all good. um I'm so confused. I don't know. You've got multiple personalities. Well, like, Serenity is supposed to be stage name.
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Serenity is supposed to be my stage name. Heather is my real name. I'm like, whatever. Use whatever. I was like, I don't know, man. I got all kinds of names. I'm like, I'm going to just pick one, and if I'm wrong, she'll yell at me and tell me I'm wrong.
Serenity's Comedy Journey
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tell people yell, hey, you, I probably answer to that, too. Yeah.
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Yeah. I generally don't answer to anything. I don't even answer to my own name most days. so but but but but I forget mine. What's up, Wale? So, appreciate you taking a little bit of time out of your evening and coming up here and hanging out with me. um i know you're you're a friend of Adam's, which is a former guest.
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Unfortunately. we had ah We had a good job hanging out. he was ah who's an interesting fella. Yeah. Even though I got rid of the room he was in, that was wild. you're Are you secure where you're at? I'm in my own place. We're good. we're good The only thing you have a problem with today is my dog barking or people walking and my door.
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That's okay. That's okay. Like I told you, that's the great thing about real, this is live. This is real. It's genuine. It's nothing scripted or staged.
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And sometimes it happens. I've got kids myself. And sometimes they're in and out of of the bedroom while I'm doing shows. Sometimes my son will come over here and just stand right here and not say anything and not realize that you can be seen on the camera. So go
Comedy After Tragedy
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ahead and just say what you want to Yeah. It's all good. Yeah. Like my dogs still bark at random times.
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Nobody will be coming in and out and she just barks. She's a husky. She's loud. Oh, yeah. She's she's probably overdramatic and everything like that, too. Yeah.
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Like our owner. It's all good. It could be the female trait, female genes. What up, Mandy? What up, Donna?
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Say hi to the chat right there. Hello. There's Adam right there. What's going on, Bubba? What's up, Adam? What's up, Tom? Yeah, we we were just chatting about you. ah So right off the bat, um i got it. This is one of the first things I always ask if I get to it. um How long you been doing comedy and why?
Evolving Comedy Style
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Well, I've been doing comedy since I would say like October, November. Adam knows better than I do. Had a bit of a tragic thing happen last year. Getting out of the whole funk, I was like, you know, I want to get out and do something. And I tell you, having stage fright and being a comedian is a mix of weird. I'm like, I can't do this. I can't do this. And the first joke I was told was about being on stage and having stage fright. So I was like, continue to do it. I still shake a little bit, I'm better.
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And, um, I did because I like to make people laugh. I've always been the kind of person in the background, like with my friend groups that if you're having a really big kind of bad day, i want to make sure you're laughing and it makes me happy.
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So it works. Hey, but yeah, that's basically where I've, you know, started.
Overcoming Stage Fright
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So have you, or are you getting over the stage fright so far? Little by little, little by little. I still, when I slug my lines, I'm like, oh crap, let me do it again. And I'm sitting there shaking a little bit, but then I get back into it. I'm like, oh, I'm good.
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I feel you on the stage fright. i I do not like getting up in front of, know, it's weird. I do these shows. You know, I'm live on the internet all the time. I don't see the eyeballs that are that are watching me. You know what i mean? That's exactly what it is look is. When I'm, like, talking to you or I'm talking to somebody on the on video chat, it's just us. It's nobody else. I know there's people live, but I'm like, whatever.
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You know, it's weird. It works. Yeah, if i if I fuck up and I look around, the only one that's looking at me is my girlfriend. That or nobody is. It's just me in my bedroom just... A weirdo, can do a laptop, you know? Pretty much. I get people looking at me all the time. I'm sitting outside, and they're like, what are you doing?
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Yeah. but Yeah, every once a while when the weather gets nice, i ah I'll take my show outside. I've had some neighbors walk by, you know, because it's nice out. And they kind of do the double take, and they're
Learning from the Comedy Community
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like, are talking to No, I'm talking to my laptop.
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I'm sorry. I've learned a really good lesson with the stage fright. Like, I was at church yesterday, and i they were up in the lunch. And my friend was playing let the bodies hit the floor and I was headbanging and didn't care. I'm just sitting there like, yeah, just do it. you know And I was like, you got to get over it somehow.
00:10:28
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honest Yes. all all eyes on the Squatch makes them freak out. Yes. This is true story. Most people look at me like I'm starting. but most people look at me like i'm started See, now they're now they're roasting you.
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and That's what they generally do. They maybe maybe just roast me constantly. It's it's most of the time the chatterbox is just talking shit to me. I've grown accustomed to it. I tell people to bring it on. I mean, it's like water off a duck's back. to Bring it on.
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Well, see, the thing is, is like on Tuesdays and Wednesdays nights, I have to be i have to be somewhat somewhat professional. So they get their digs in when I when I can't really come back at them. But on Saturdays,
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Then it's a different monster. I can say and do whatever I want. It's all good. so Then i get I get mine, but they you know they pick on me. yeah so i I hear Adam said it's all his fart are all his fault. and Not fart, for fault but Nobody's here to judge me.
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Adam, it's not all your fault. It's half your fault. and so being Being new into the comedy scene, um are you Are you, or have you yet kind of found your, I know some people say it takes years, but you know you've been doing it for about six, seven months so far.
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Are you starting to find your your your rhythm a little bit, kind of find your full? A little bit.
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I kind of learned about it. Like I'm, I started off with just random jokes that I thought about. And then I started like, I'm going to call them out, but Adam does what I call story time. He reads off of this phone and tell stories, but he has the punchlines. He has the jokes.
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I tried that out. It works for like, one or two times and then I'm like, okay, this is not working for me. so I'm going to switch it up and I have a lot of one liners and you know little
Comedy as Expression and Healing
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jokes. But I find that coming from no matter what you write, I come from experience. So my dog the other week, she she's like an intruder alert. She'll come to the door with a shoe in her mouth, one of her toys in her mouth, wagging her tail, growling at you. soon as you walk in, she drops the toys and it attacks you.
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so it's like that's the security system i've got right now wrote about that so it's kind of like you know it all depends on what goes on every you know every time i go in stand up i think well and and and it seems to be the kind of the the the main thing with uh with comedians is a lot of what you write comes from real life comes from real life experiences uh you know at the end of the day i mean shit happens every day that could be made somewhat funny and or if you look at it in different light it might be something that stresses you the fuck out but if you sit back and think about it you're like oh i could make this funny somehow
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Well, you can ask anybody who's who's met me. I have that little thing where I kind of like just basically just don't care what people think of me. So I could be sitting in the car like I helped Adam him out today and I was sitting in the car and there was some lady in the car next to us. and i just I just started dancing and we had music on and I was like, I didn't care what people thought. So that's pretty much the friend that I am in the person for the friend group.
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I'll just start dancing or joking out or making crazy things and I won't care. But when I get up on that stage, I'm like, okay, what am I talking about?
Supportive Comedy Community
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For you. You know, this is how I am. and it works better in the friend group than it does in public, but I'm getting used to it. I think i think you've had to develop that. you know The more you're on stage and the more you you know the more you're comfortable, especially since you said you're you're you're dealing with that and overcoming the stage fright, the more you overcome that and the more comfortable you get on stage, the more comfortable you're going to be and you're going
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do ah the wacky things, the more quote-unquote physical comedy. comedy sorry i'm I don't think you're going to be throwing yourself through a table ah you know Chris Farley-esque or anything like that. Give me time on this interview. I might fall off the chair. That'll be the best comedy ever.
00:14:36
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You know what? We've gotten clips of people falling out of chairs before, and it's hilarious. You can use it if you need to. It works. Yeah. um I dig it.
00:14:52
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I like that you said that you've experimented, especially yeah when you talk to newer comedians or comedians that are just coming into it. But think you guys, and this is just my opinion just as ah as a fan, as I said, I'm not a standup comedian, nor do I claim to be.
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But talking to comedians in those early stages, sometimes they're kind of nervous or afraid to bounce around and find what works for them. The one line to the story modes, you're fine.
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There she goes. There she goes. Baby, come here. She's like, somebody pay attention to me. She's a bitch. She's a bitch. We know it. Somebody's coming in the door, probably. Yeah, there's people coming in the door. Yep. There she goes.
00:15:36
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yes go But to be this early into the game as a comedian and already like, well, I tried the stories. It doesn't really work for me. But the one liners or writing actual jokes, you know, a lot of comedians kind of come in and they're like, I'm just going to do jokes and I'm going to do that until I'm more comfortable. It sounds like you're pickling yeah you're coming full steam ahead into it, into the into the comedy scene.
00:16:01
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ah lot A lot of people will call me like, I'm like, i once I have a project, I basically just completely keep going. And if I find that one thing doesn't work and another thing does, I try that out a couple of times. And I've told a lot of people, I'm like, and I've even watched a lot of comedians up and coming by jokes that they find on the internet, jokes that thought aren't theirs. I'm like, you need to find you. And if that's not the way you want to talk, don't be a comedian.
00:16:26
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You know, because you're going to use someone else's jokes that's not right. And so trying out, you know, my own stuff, but in different forms, it kind of gives me the, I think I can work with this and that, maybe mess them together.
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So it works. Yeah. Yeah, you definitely you definitely don't want to um by no means be associating in any way, shape, or form as somebody who steals other comedians' jokes or or borrows from them, so to say. Yeah.
00:16:57
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I hear you. Yeah, that is that is a... What up, Chaka? That's a black guy that's hard to recover from. hey know Definitely. But at the end of the day, I mean...
00:17:10
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sometimes unintentionally things happen in life yeah that are similar to you know other people's experiences and they and it you you may touch on something that somebody else briefly grazed around and and then all of a sudden they're like, oh my God, she's she's not even doing her own stuff. Oh yeah, definitely.
00:17:35
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i try I try my hardest to make everything original. or if i'm like There's a lot of comedians that to to brush up on their their sketches and stuff like that. They consistently do it. There's quite a few people who do that consistently every single time. and It's like, come on, come up with something new.
00:17:51
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But then there's people who are trying to perfect it I need support no matter what, but it's still kind of gray area. Mm-hmm. Well, you definitely don't want something to to run stale and run its course. You know, you want to you want to so try to stay.
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and I think, and and you know, I've said this a million times.
Humor and Personal Tragedy
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Again, as as a fan, i think the open mics are great, whether you're whether you're a seasoned veteran or you're you're new into comedy.
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um And as a fan, I love going to the open mics because you might have you might have one comedian who's been in the game for – you know, 10 plus years and come up there and actually, and and absolutely eat a bag of dicks.
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And then you got somebody who's like three months in and they're fucking hilarious, but they're just trying, you know, and the and the veterans just trying new stuff out, you know, some may, some may not. um Do you enjoy as you know, especially being so new into the game, are you, are you getting to take that opportunity and take advantage of the open mics?
00:18:55
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um Yeah, I've been doing open mic almost every Tuesday with Adam. The last few weeks have been a little bit blurry, got injured at work, so I was kind of like just trying to get myself together. But other than that, I've been trying to go as much as I can, get out there and do a lot more posting the videos that Adam takes for me while we're at open mic and, you know, accepting the feedback and the criticism from, well, not criticism, but like the critique from other, you know, people who've been through it longer than I have and and trying to like get more into perfecting it, not be perfect.
00:19:28
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Yeah. So let me ask you, because that is, ah you you brought that, you just brought that up with the critiques or criticism or however you want to take it Is that a tough pill for you to swallow? Because I know sometimes, and I've been guilty of it too, you know, somebody tries to, you know, say, hey, why don't you try to do this a little bit differently or this?
00:19:46
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and And it's easy to get up and get caught in your own head and go, well, fuck you. You don't know what you're talking about. you ever get I don't think so. I kind of accept, like, as a writer, per se, in sense,
00:20:01
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I'm a writer. I like to write. I write a bunch of things. But when I write, you have an editor for a reason. If you're like run on sentences about the same thing and it's getting boring, you want somebody to say, bitch, you're writing in the wrong way.
00:20:14
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Fix this. This is constantly the same thing you're saying. You need to fix it. And I like that. I'll take the critique. I'll take the thing. But if they're just telling me to flat out, you shouldn't talk about that.
00:20:24
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You shouldn't. be that person, you shouldn't say these things and and talk about what happened in your life, even though it was traumatic. I'll give you an example. my exhu passed away last year.
00:20:36
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Permanent silent treatment, and I'm loving it.
Authenticity in Comedy
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but it's just It's just the fact that I shouldn't be telling that joke, and I'm like, well, fuck you, I'm going to say what I want to say. yeah that' not That's when I say fuck you, but I don't say, please don't give me any advice, because I'm not goingnna sit there and screw you.
00:20:53
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I'm not like that. But it's funny and that's Everybody deals with the traumatic things or you know tragedies or whatever the case may be differently.
00:21:07
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And I can appreciate because I know I have a dark, so twisted sense of humor. I mean, most everybody that's a fan of the network and knows me knows my situation with my dead mom and where she's at and why she's there. And it's hilarious.
00:21:23
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But other people will hear it for the first time and go, dude, that's twisted. There's something seriously wrong with you. but but but but but You know, like it's it's coming from experience and that's what I like.
00:21:34
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And I keep telling everybody that I tell people I technically wear my feelings on my shirt, as you can see today. but Nice. So i literally I literally wear my feelings on my shirt and I have a couple that says, you know, I'm not as responsible for my face when talk, you know.
00:21:50
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It's just how I am. And if you don't like that about me, then you you can't be my friend. You can't, you know, if you don't like how I am. And like you said, with your mom, it's an experience. And some people are going to look at you like, and then other people like, yep, I know the deal. yeah You do you know theyre good they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna see that They're going to see the comedy in it and why I laugh at it. It it is know is what it is at the end of the day. But no, that's the other thing you know that sounds really cool about you is that you're genuine.
00:22:21
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I think Adam said it. you know Yeah, a lot of people do. yeah um Yeah. You're genuine and it's real. And and and it's not...
00:22:34
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It's not a character, so to say, that you play on stage.
Unplanned Comedy Journey
00:22:37
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you know I imagine you're the same person you are whether you're on the stage or off the stage, which is a great characteristic for people to have because not many people have that. Why do somebody else when you can be yourself all the time? Yeah, the fa whatever facet of entertainment they're in, when they're on their stage, whatever their stage may be, that's who they are.
00:23:01
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and there's something totally different in real life and it's it's like it's crazy it's it's crazy that's that's not who I can be a lot of people definitely you know tell you about me like Kimberly who's here and Adam and then Kimberly is someone who I was at the shelter with and she know she's the director and she knows me like I don't speak I speak my mind I don't let nobody bitch around and and even my own blood brother i I told him to fuck off because he was literally ah pain in my ass and They know I'm not going to sit there and sugarcoat for you.
00:23:34
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I don't own a chocolate factory. I'm not that kind of person. But when you're you're nice to me, I'm nice to you. That's just who you get from me. Your attitude reflects my attitude.
00:23:45
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Oh, yeah. So
00:23:50
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the the comedy aspect, was that something that you ever thought you'd find yourself doing? Or was it just like, Like you said, you're like, hey well, I guess I could do this now. But have you ever thought about it before? you ever like done anything similar to it before before you did it?
00:24:07
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Honestly, the only comedy that I ever thought about was like i said a lot of my friends go you should really try being the comedian and I never thought about it because I never had the time I wasn't in that kind of situation where I was free to do anything and i was just like Didn't think anything other because a lot of people like I'm naturally funny I'm naturally making people laugh and don't even realize until the end when I'm like, oh crap I said something funny So it's like when Adam was like in October, he's like, why don't you come with me to an open mic? You don't have to come to it and do anything. You can sit there and just be there and watch and see how works out.
00:24:41
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And, you know, my motto is one thing that scares you a month or what week or whatever. And was like, I'll try it out. I got up there. I got a bunch of laughs. I'm like, oh, I'll do this again. You know, but I was freaking out. The stage fright.
00:24:52
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So continuously doing it. i'm like, oh, I like doing it. Now I completely enjoy doing it.
Open Mic Experiences
00:24:57
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So it works. yeah Well, I mean I know a lot of people that are funny that is that doesn't mean that they should do stand-up I like to think that are everything though I like to think I'm pretty funny But yeah, I'm not I'm not in and in a million years am I ever gonna say I could do stand-up comedy Because there is an art to it at the end of the day. I can be quick-witted I can I can you know Have smart-ass comebacks smart-ass roast or whatever
00:25:28
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But, you know, to be funny, but also be able to transition that actual funny into getting on stage and and making making other people laugh is an art. I mean, there's a lot of people that think they're comedians and then they get up on stage and they just look like assholes.
00:25:43
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I mean, I've seen a lot of that in my life. I'm being a fan of comedy. I enjoy going to shows when I can. um And I've seen a lot of people go and I'm like, ooh.
00:25:55
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maybe maybe not pursuing. You get a lot of people like that. They go up there and they try, which is is great. You should try. Better than try and fail than not to try at all. and i kind of think of it that way. but Going to Open Mic and a lot of the other like people I see, there's a lot of really funny Open Mic and a very funny people, but sometimes they're like, don't think so. and I'm just sitting there and me and Adam are just looking at each other like,
00:26:25
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No. So it's kind of like it all depends. But you know what? it's I'd rather see the person try than fail. slide Sometimes. You know better. Stop it. You know better. you know yeah You have no business being up there and you know better. don't know.
00:26:46
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I'm of a different generation. i'm a Bring back dodgeball. Bring back bullying. We need it. I'm going to age myself out. I'm 39 years old. I would love to hit somebody in the face of the ball. I've got a list of people to line up. yeah Yeah. I strongly believe it. its Sometimes bullying is good. You should be able to tell people you suck.
00:27:10
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Don't do that. Yeah. yeah It's not as bad as me throwing a bowling ball and hitting somebody in the face. I've done that. I definitely recommend hitting people in the face with bowling balls. but Well, no, it was an accident because I went like this and the whole thing flew backwards. I'm like, where'd it go?
00:27:30
Speaker
I was like, oh, there is. It's in your face. So yeah it worked. though So, yeah, and adam Adam drug you there. It's all his fault. Now that you have this this new – call it a drug. You got bit by the comedy bug, and now you're now you – you know.
00:27:49
Speaker
i mean, he didn't really technically drag me there. he kind of had to pull a little bit, but I flew in there because one tug and I'm going flying. I'm easy to throw.
00:28:01
Speaker
It works. nice But yeah, we're the same material over and over again. I mean, have you, have you got the opportunity yet to, to do anything outside of, uh, open mics or anything like that?
00:28:14
Speaker
Yeah. We, um, when Adam was here the last time he was telling us about the, um, the, um, improv show yeah and that didn't really go down as way as planned, but we had people show up.
Improving Comedy Events
00:28:24
Speaker
We had some ticket sales, um, just from this communication between the club and Adam and myself. And, um,
00:28:31
Speaker
But, it you know, I got to do that. I wasn't very good at it because for me, for some reason, it's just like i'm talking to you or i'm talking to somebody else. I can improv, no problem. I got up on that stage and I'm like, where am I at? What's going on?
00:28:45
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So it he was good, but it wasn't, I mean, I thought it would have been better, but it was also miscommunication, miscalculations and things like that.
00:28:55
Speaker
I mean, and that and that sometimes happens, and hopefully that doesn't deter you guys from trying and and keep you know trying to to to do that, because I remember talking to Adam, and it sounded like a great, as long as they sounded good, that's all that matters.
00:29:08
Speaker
It sounded like a great idea, and a great concept. Everything was good. Yeah, sorry. Everything was was set up pretty well, and it was all good. and Oh, you there goes Lucas. But no, um so everything was good.
00:29:21
Speaker
it was just the fact of, you know, the participation and we didn't have very many. We had all but myself and one other performer um basically show up. there was We had like six people who were supposed to show up and all but myself and the other guy just couldn't make it. So it was just one-on-one wasn't very funny, but we tried. I mean...
00:29:47
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Sometimes that's all you can do. yeah but And, and, and, you know, and, and some things, sometimes things just don't go as planned. I mean, I I've been a part of that. You know, we, we had a new year's Eve thing that didn't quite go as planned. I know some people were upset. Some people were mad at themselves. Some people were flustered. And and at it the end of the day, it was like, you know, it just,
00:30:13
Speaker
Unfortunately, we had a snowstorm that threw a damper into things. The venue was kind of a clusterfuck that threw a damper into things. The audio wasn't that great. Nobody's fault. Just, you know, a lot of things were against, were against the comedians that night, but, you know, we tried to have, do the best that we could try to have a good night and try to have fun. And for the most part, it was, oh yeah you know, but,
00:30:36
Speaker
If the opportunity presented itself to do it again, absolutely. Are there things that I would, that, you know, myself personally would want to do differently? Maybe if the same people were involved, maybe they would want to do things differently. Absolutely. But I mean, that's one of those trial and error things. You're going to go through those hiccups and ups and downs when you're when you're trying something new. Yeah, we would definitely try again.
00:31:03
Speaker
As I told Adam, I said, you know, we know the glitches now. And we know how much it is to rent the room and we know how much it is to, um yeah, yeah, yeah. We know how much, I had a problem with the microphone situation too, okay?
00:31:16
Speaker
It's all my fault. But we we I told Adam, I was like, you know what, let's try it again. But this time we do it on our terms, you know, rent a space. We can charge and keep the money. We don't have give it out to somebody else.
00:31:29
Speaker
And we'll do better, you know, so communication will just be, we're running that room. It'd be up to us to promote it and things like that. And we're thinking about it, you know, we don't have the money right now, but we're thinking about it So we're going.
00:31:44
Speaker
Yeah. like Yeah. I think a lot of people lazy shaman, whichever one you two that is. Um, yeah um I mean, and that happens. Yeah, man. Like I said, there's there's always, and you know and that's a great learning experience, especially for young comics or or young entertainers, no matter what you're doing. you know Things happen that are completely 100% out of our control or out of your control.
00:32:12
Speaker
And you roll punches, you learn from it, you adapt, and you move on to the next thing. And you take all those things that you learned from the last one and and apply them to the next one, and the next one will be better.
00:32:23
Speaker
yeah That's a hundred percent shit because like I I tell people like there's so many things that I've done and failed at that I'm gone back and I'm like, you know, let's do this Let's get this done. And I tell people you know, you you need to if you fail once don't don't stop I even tell Adam this all the time because he sometimes gets discouraged and I'm like Listen, it's going to fuck up. You're going to fuck up.
00:32:44
Speaker
It's just going to fuck up. But go back to it and figure it out. Figure out where the kinks were. Add something as a safety net. Don't just sit there and be like, I can't do this. We can't do this ever again. Because it's not going to be the end of the world. You just try again. And you might be more successful.
00:33:00
Speaker
I'll tell you right now, if if if I didn't eat my mistakes and try to grow and be better, we wouldn't be sitting here having this conversation right now. Because I've been doing this shit for five years now, and I have failed a lot.
00:33:12
Speaker
I have made a lot of mistakes, a lot in the last five years. But I've continued to grow, and I've continued to try to be better. and And that's all you can do as it as an entertainer.
00:33:24
Speaker
and And you're so green. you know You're so brand new to the situation. that you also kind of got to rely on your peers and your community and and hope that they have the same reaction that you have.
00:33:37
Speaker
So that that gives you that encouragement to keep going and like, all right, it's not the end of the world.
Professional Growth and Persistence
00:33:42
Speaker
Nobody died, and all honesty. It's all how you promote yourself, too. Like, a lot of people, and I'm calling a couple of people out, not Adam, because Adam was doing a great job, but like, a lot of the performers.
00:33:57
Speaker
I said, all Adam's fault. That's what I heard you say. I said it wasn't all Adam's fault. But no, like I was explaining, it was the promotion. It was like, there was not enough people promoting the whole thing.
00:34:08
Speaker
It was somebody going be like, here, buy a ticket for me. And it's how you promote. Like tonight, I i blasted my social media. I blasted everyone. You need to put it out there. Don't just,
00:34:19
Speaker
put it up once and then think that everybody's going to see it. It's just like the club. They didn't put any kind of promotion out there for it. And they only posted it the night of the show. So how are you going to get people out there if you don't promote?
00:34:31
Speaker
And I tell people all the time, don't feel bad about, and it's going to sound really funny, pouring yourself out there to try to give out your flyers. Hey, you want to come see me? You want to go see me? Yeah. That's exactly what I do Absolutely. I mean, and, and, and i mean, at the end of the day,
00:34:49
Speaker
and In my opinion, um if you're doing an event or you're doing something, all parties should be promoting. Of All parties should be promoting the entire event, not just part of, not just you know a certain...
00:35:07
Speaker
aspect of it, but the entire event and all parties should be doing it because otherwise you're just sitting yourself up for failure. you Yeah. Definitely. Definitely. and And like I said, it's not just one person's fault. We also have performers that got their tickets and got their flyers to give out and then they just completely left.
00:35:27
Speaker
They didn't want to be there. They didn't want to come and help or they couldn't do it. Understandably, things come up. But if you have a show, if you're you're prepared for the show and you know you're going to do something, there shouldn't be nothing else scheduled.
Promotion and Social Media
00:35:38
Speaker
You give a yes to coming and helping. And that's the other problem we had. People weren't committing to it besides those who showed up. So, you know, that's the other problem.
00:35:49
Speaker
it Yeah, it happens. yeah Like I said, hopefully hopefully you know you guys don't let that deter you and you and you try to do it again and you know you you learn and you get those commitments locked in and secured and venues do their part and the next one will be better.
00:36:09
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. Sounds like you got a pretty quality sound guy. At least you got that going for you. At least that's what he says in the chat. He thinks he's a quality sound guy until he starts joking about the microphone every five seconds.
00:36:20
Speaker
And he's got a quality beatdown. Just saying. Yeah, Lucas, I remember you when Adam was on here, buddy. Yeah, we were we were roasting him. Now it's his turn to roast me.
00:36:34
Speaker
It's all good. And that's a killer in itself when the venue's not even advertising it. Or, you know, there there's very minimal advertisement and then the venue has something else planned that night. So like it's like, why would you plan something on top of it? But if if I'm a venue owner, if I'm a bar owner or a club owner and I've got an event, I'm going to the hell out of it.
00:37:00
Speaker
It's going to be on social media. It's going to be on flyers. It's going to, you know, if I've got an event coming up, I want people to know. I want people to be like, oh, shit. you know There's a few places around here that I enjoy going to see music at.
00:37:14
Speaker
and you know They're usually putting the stuff up about a week out and they're making multiple posts. and i might not see the for you you know well social As people who are on social media, sometimes we don't see posts if you just put one post up.
00:37:28
Speaker
um Right. Definitely. It's that one. It's like, oh, shit. So-and-so is going to be down the road. like these guys. I'm going to go check them out. Yeah. If you don't have a big social media standard, like that's what the like with the little guys like me, know, I don't I never had my social media be mainly comedy.
00:37:47
Speaker
It was always like, um you know, other things that I was doing and I didn't really. I didn't really think about that until I was like, hey, why don't you start posting it to Instagram and posting it to Facebook? And, you know, every week that I go, I post it. And and I didn't think about that. So, like, my my my whole thing is small.
00:38:06
Speaker
So, the small creators who can't really advertise unless they put it in groups. And that's where I come in. We're like, Facebook Marketplace. Go throw out there now but it put it in the most weirdest of places. but Get it heard and seen. Maybe somebody will...
00:38:19
Speaker
Like, oh, I want to come, you know? No, exactly. yeah Social media, you got to use it to your advantage. I'm terrible at it. And and I want to say shout out to the groups, the the you know, the music groups and the comedy groups on Facebook that allow me to to post my promos in them when I have guests coming up. And I post the lives in there.
00:38:36
Speaker
Shout out to you guys who are checking that stuff out and watching it.
Future Goals in Comedy
00:38:39
Speaker
and And thank you to the admins who allow us small-time guys, and you know, because we're still small-time over here at the network. So, yeah.
00:38:47
Speaker
You know, you've got to have those avenues. and It's an unnecessary it's a unnecessary evil. We all hate social media. but yeah Yeah. I'm so used to MySpace.
00:38:59
Speaker
um I'm with it. I'm so used to MySpace as an older Facebook where you don't all these updates. And I just want to throw it out the way. oh e Yeah, I'm not a fan of it. But, you know, when you're an entertainer, you've got to take advantage of it when you can and how you can.
00:39:18
Speaker
At the end of the day. Yeah, pretty much. But um so here's kind of a new, you know, I've been fortunate to get some up and coming comedians. i don't know why I haven't thought about this before.
00:39:35
Speaker
Where do you or where do you and where would you like to see yourself in like five years with comedy? I feel like I have this question a lot. um No, I'm in with Tommy. um I would love to be, you know, a performer um or, you know, helping those who want to do comedy, you know, maybe have more experience by that five year mark, you know, at the moment. And, and I tell people I'm going to school for psychology and social working and I'm like, by that time in five years, I can get inside people's heads better than I can get in mine.
00:40:07
Speaker
So maybe I could use that to my advantage. Put it in there and be like, I think you're thinking about you're being really weird right now, or is it just me?
Local Comedy Scene
00:40:14
Speaker
You something like that. So i want I want to do more comedy and be able to, like, not freak out or and put in a ball when I'm up on the stage.
00:40:25
Speaker
We'll get there. Hopefully see Adam, like, you know, be up there too.
00:40:34
Speaker
good Oh, now he's will talking me up. they that's because That's because I'm ah a performer. I'm also a salesperson.
00:40:45
Speaker
um I know how to sell the things I'm working on. Like, if I'm going to be doing something and I want you there, I'm going to be like, get there, get there, and get there, too to do that. So I'm out there. Those are earthquakes with my hands.
00:41:00
Speaker
Do you think... Well, it's kind of a doublesided or a double-edged question here, but not in a bad way. Do you think where you are located at, how is the how is the comedy scene there? Do you think that might hold you back and you know like you' where where you live at?
00:41:19
Speaker
um Honestly, there are places to go. On Adam's side, there's an open lake soldiers here in Pottstown. There's a bunch of like different places people go and there's a couple cities outside of Potsdam within like 15-20 minutes that you open mic and comedy and stuff like that but I don't think I think it's mainly more seasoned performers like you see the main performers that have been out there for a while and um it's a lot to put yourself into they know what they're doing and you don't technically and being a baby performer you get sprinkled in there you get lucky if you make two people laugh when you have like
00:41:58
Speaker
someone before you 100 people laughing. So it would be really good to have like nobody else besides of the newest comics. You have to be like a year or less. Find a place to do that around here and and give those people who have been doing it for a short period of time a way to do it and have like seasoned performers critique you and help you out. And I know there's like a comedy class that you could do it, but that's expensive.
00:42:21
Speaker
So, you know, there's no place for you to like freely do it. And you have places to do things around here, but it's not very. yeah And again, this is just, you know, the the the fan. on the ah you I'm on the outside looking in.
00:42:37
Speaker
I think an opportunity like an open mic in a bigger city where there are more seasoned comedians. would afford you opportunities to where, yeah, you might go up there and only get a couple of laughs. But if one of those seasoned comedians who are getting, you know, headlining or whatever, they're like, oh, I need an opener. If they find you to be amusing
Taking Risks in Comedy
00:42:59
Speaker
or funny, they're like, hey, how would you feel about coming over to Pittsburgh for the weekend? I'm i'm opening, and I don't even know if this is a real place in Pittsburgh. I'm just throwing shit at wall. You know, I'm going to be over at the Funny Bone in Pittsburgh, and I need somebody to open it.
00:43:15
Speaker
Yeah, thats that's a that's a good that's a good point, too. It's just a little, um I call it, I find it a little nerve-wracking because you see all the people get a million laughs. You go up there, you think your stuff's funny, you're laughing at it.
00:43:27
Speaker
Adam even said it. He's like, if you laugh at your stuff and it's funny, it doesn't matter to anybody else. I laugh at myself all the time. It matters. It matters. it Everybody thinks I'm hilarious, and if they don't, well, they're they're fucking wrong. Yeah.
00:43:44
Speaker
No, no. I mean, I think, you know, that that I get that. I feel that, I mean, as a, as a, as a content creator, as a podcast host, I look at some of these content creators that are literally doing nothing and get a million views. And it's like, you're not doing anything. Yeah, I know. Right.
00:44:04
Speaker
Like let's just throw a ball at the wall. We'll see what that does. Yeah. I'm over here busting my hump. Like, putting in all kinds of hours, you know, doing all this stuff, trying to create stuff that people enjoy and like, and then some jerk off can come and sit in a camera for six hours with his finger in his nose and not do anything. Right.
00:44:23
Speaker
So just carry it like this for like 20 minutes and you're like, what are you looking at? Yeah. So yeah, I get that. I get that. That's kind of a, that's kind of a kick in the dick, but at the end of the day, and also, you know, it,
00:44:38
Speaker
putting in the hard work when you do get to that next stage or that next goal that you want to get to, it makes it feel that much better. Every little goal that we hit, every little achievement that we hit here is, it means so much more to me because, you know, we took the, we took a risk. We took a chance.
00:44:56
Speaker
That's was saying, you know, giving yourself those opportunities, you know, maybe you might not get many laughs. Maybe somebody will boo you off stage. Who knows? But you can say, Hey, I swung. I wasn't afraid to take the chance.
Everyday Inspirations in Comedy
00:45:07
Speaker
Well, I tell people, is if you're going to boo me off stage, sure you have them gigantic hooks and just pull me off. yeah I'm just going to be so dramatic getting off the stage. You're to want me back on. It's going to be that funny. What
00:45:22
Speaker
up, Jerry? Yes. Yeah, I know. Like, bring back the old Apollo the old apollo days where they would have the hook. and yeah Yeah. You can boo me if I'm that funny. Just pull me off the stage. you'll You'll get a crack up.
00:45:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:43
Speaker
don't
00:45:46
Speaker
Well, that sucks. I don't remember him off top of my head, but that's terrible news. Sorry to hear. ah yeah so But, yeah, I mean, i think you're taking a you know, like you said, you have a stage fright. You're already taking that that. That's a huge step, and that's just coming from somebody who has stage fright himself.
00:46:03
Speaker
think I hate up on a stage and talking in front of people. i've I've been fortunate enough to get to do it once. ah And and it was it was the funnest, also the scariest thing I ever did. And I was happy when I got on stage. I find it really like therapeutic. like i Taking classes in my last semester, I literally, we had a presentation on the on the whiteboard, you know, those little things you can use your finger slide stuff.
00:46:30
Speaker
And I'm sitting there and it will my presentation wasn't moving. I was like, let's go. Come on, you can do it. And it wasn't moving. So the whole time I was making the class laugh because my stage fright and my anxiety was like, come on, I'm trying to do something here.
00:46:42
Speaker
And I didn't realize I was speaking out loud. So I turned around the whole cra class was cracking up. I'm like, what did I do? And my teacher, her I was like, you know, you were fighting with that whiteboard for like 10 minutes. i like, oh, really? You heard that? Okay.
00:46:55
Speaker
It works. My bad. Yeah, like, where did it go? I don't know what happened. So, in yeah, in in your in your short time of of doing comedy, have you had had any um crazy experiences or any kind of off-the-wall stories or anything like that that's Kind of happen.
00:47:20
Speaker
ah see. Like as I'm doing comedy or like in general? Like doing comedy, like at a show, from a show, anything like that. Of course, Adam's going to call me out for what I was actually going to tell you. So there's this lady, her name's Candace, and she's a comedian.
00:47:36
Speaker
She also does the OnlyFans. and And so she was walking up. I couldn't remember her name for the license week. And she was walking up the the line and I couldn't think of it. I'm like, Adam, Adam, there goes, there goes, there goes, oh, boob lady. And he's like, what?
00:47:50
Speaker
Boob lady? He looks over and she's walking up. Come on, she's got big ones. And I'm like, oh, Candace, that's her name. He's like, you call her boob lady? I'm like, I'm just sitting there blushing. I couldn't help it.
00:48:04
Speaker
That's like one of the craziest ones. I don't think there really anything else except for me tripping off stage. It worked. I laughed at myself. Was everybody able to see that? So you at least like have moment? I don't know if anybody actually noticed it because it was a very slight trip, but I was embarrassed. So I heard it in my head like, oh, she went there.
00:48:24
Speaker
There she goes.
00:48:28
Speaker
I think I try so hard to like think about, don't fall, don't fall, don't fall. And then when it happens, I'm like, you're not to hurt the but but but so That's the worst part. um you know In your head, you're like, don't say this, don't say this, don't do this, don't do that. You're just jinxing yourself. You're going to do it. It's going to happen. oh yeah no like The crazy experiences from life, I've got 100.
00:48:53
Speaker
Pick one. yeah we ah We all got those stories. But, you know, you got all those. How but how many of them are are you working on or ah translating into your comedy?
00:49:07
Speaker
Well, like I told you about the dog one, I bummed that one. I got a board game one. We are very competitive when Adam comes over and my fiance here, we're we're playing board games like crazy. And sorry, it's a shit show for me. I'm telling you that one's coming out.
00:49:21
Speaker
um I've got a couple of like autocorrect jokes and things like that, but mostly just minor ones. Cause I've gone maybe like 20 or 30 times on stage. The first few times I was repetitive because I wanted to see how it worked with different audiences.
00:49:35
Speaker
But I mean, had one about turning old too. Yeah. that hope That was the worst one. Yeah, that's that's a bitch. Same so much. now I'll be 45 this year. It works.
00:49:55
Speaker
Yeah, i'm telling you, that the the joys of getting old, they they there's stories and they kind of write themselves. The the jokes kind of write themselves because...
Writing and Testing Jokes
00:50:06
Speaker
oh yeah I mean, i I, and this is the honest to goodness truth. It's not even meant to be. It's not in any way fabricated story. was walking down the hall one day, farted a little too hard and blew my back out.
00:50:22
Speaker
Blew my back up for a week. There she goes. Quiet. Game over. And I was down for a week because I farted. Well, it's not as bad as was talking to Adam the other day. I was telling him, I'm getting married on Halloween.
00:50:37
Speaker
So we were talking, and I'm literally, he's like, I don't need to pay a DJ to give me any sound effects. Just record me getting up off the floor or out of bed. You'll hear creak, moan, groan on my bed.
00:50:49
Speaker
It's not going to work. Just know it. Just record me for like three weeks to get all the scary sounds you're going to need for haunted house. Yeah, exactly. I don't have to ask her about the midget. You guys told me all about the midget at the autopilot. Yeah, right? I think he's getting old and forgetful.
00:51:05
Speaker
Yeah. Honestly. He's got some time or sometimes he wants to remember, sometimes he doesn't. We talked all about it when you were out here, Adam.
00:51:16
Speaker
I love that story. Baby's got a lot to say to you guys today, apparently. Yeah, she is very talkative tonight. She is very talkative. does She's a barker. When there's nothing on in the background, like no music or no TV, she goes crazy.
00:51:30
Speaker
We had the the power go out, and when the power went out and she was just sitting looking out the window, as soon as somebody walked by, woof. I'm like, there's no pretty digger. She's trying to entertain herself. Pretty much.
00:51:43
Speaker
She's always got to be part of the show. Mm-hmm. I
00:51:49
Speaker
can't remember how to spell silence. Maybe it's a dictionary. Yeah, autocorrect. um yeah right You said you've always kind of been a writer and and and you've done writing and stuff like that before.
00:52:05
Speaker
does Does writing comedy, does it come easy to you or is that kind of a process in itself? Sometimes. Like the jokes will just write themselves.
00:52:15
Speaker
And if I don't write them down as I'm thinking about them, I'll forget them completely. That's the stumptimers. But, um, but no, like I honestly, writing's always been natural. So it doesn't matter what I'm writing. If it's poetry, lyrics, music, stories, whatever.
00:52:29
Speaker
It's like, as soon as I start writing, you can, you can even ask everybody who's been at the open, like I'll be on my phone. i like, hold on, I'm working on something, sick you know, like, cause it just comes to me like that. And so if I don't get it down, i just won't remember. And, um, it's just been a natural thing for me since high school.
00:52:44
Speaker
So it does. jokes, 99% of the time the jokes just write themselves. Do you ever go back and actually written a joke down, rereading go hell? Yes.
00:52:56
Speaker
yes I was like, okay, I might have been off my meds for that one, on crack for that one. Let's mix them together. It might be funny. And I've done that a couple of times. gonna say I was going to say, do you ever find yourself like, rewrite, like, um take this part out and put this in? and Consistently. I'll be sitting up until the time I go up on stage and everybody's around me. They're like trying to talk to me, trying to look over my shoulder to see what I'm writing. And I'm like this with my phone. And I'm like, I'm working. So like right up till I get on the stage and then sometimes I'm on the stage. I didn't like what I wrote by Adlet and it's a dumber and it makes people laugh. So it works. As long as you get the laugh at the end of the day, that's kind of the goal of comedy. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's kind of 100%. Yeah.
00:53:42
Speaker
yeah yeah that's that's got to one hundred percent there there my girlfriend slash backstage producer, getting ah social media for you. Yeah, i change it I changed it to to comedy on the end because lot of people were like, we can't find you. I'm like, well, getting you didn't. yeah so i had to like but like This doesn't mean you're doing comedy. It doesn't mean I'm i'm funny.
00:54:06
Speaker
now So I kind of changed it to make it work. I know a lot of people like that. They claim to be comedians, but they're not funny. It don't mean everything. i'll just tell you that. They're just digital little crackheads on stage that ramble incoherently.
00:54:25
Speaker
We know a couple of them. We know definitely a couple of them. Yeah, i kind of tell people if I can't make fun of somebody else, or ah hood doesn You can't make fun of yourself. Don't make fun of anybody else. And I love making fun of people. So, like, Adam will see me. And I get yelled at all the time for the self-deprecation. He's like, you can't call yourself that. look But i don't mean it.
00:54:44
Speaker
I just want to yell at somebody else. Yeah, right. It works. No, got to be able to laugh at yourself. i think i think that's ah i think it's a true statement. You got to be able to laugh at yourself if you're going to make other people laugh.
00:54:58
Speaker
Oh, 100%. ah hundred percent If you take it too seriously, then I don't think people are going to find you ah all that entertaining at the end of the day. Yeah. I tell you, you've got to be your true self. Like I said before, it be yourself. That's the only person you need to be. Oh, 100%. Shit, I was going to ask something. I told her.
00:55:21
Speaker
See, he's got some timers, too. Yes. Squirrel. Oh, it's good. That's the 45-year-old ADHD right there kicking in. We know ADHD is a bitch. It is. Ooh, shiny object. It was like earlier, me and Adam saw two squirrels. We were like, ooh, squirrel at the same time.
00:55:44
Speaker
funny It happens. It's the worst. I don't know how I... Fortunately, I can... keep a conversation going and and hopefully, you know, keep people from zoning out too much. Cause like um I'm fighting to keep myself from zoning out at the same time. not really zoning out. Am I that boring? Oh my goodness.
00:56:04
Speaker
I thought I was entertaining. It's easily like, Oh yeah, I know what I was going to do. Oh, I got to prepare for this. oh I got to do that. Yeah.
00:56:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:20
Speaker
Do you both have ADHD? I'm not diagnosed with it, but but what that I'm 100% positive that I have it. you got it. There she goes again. What are you doing? think my dog has ADHD.
00:56:35
Speaker
No, I call it attention distraction heather disorder. i think my dogma has eighty eight d now i call it um i call it ah attention distraction heather disorder If it happens, I do have ADHD really bad. Like I'll talk to you and the dog will bark and I'm just focusing on her for like two seconds. and enough What is your problem?
00:57:02
Speaker
I don't know. She did she she has a tough people. She's my emotional support dog, but she needs emotional support. Not me. I was going say, you said she's a husky, and yeah let's be honest. A husky is the emotional support they can get. Yeah, she's very loud, but she's a good dog. she's see um The other day, we had our upstairs neighbor, who she's a complete bitch, try to break into my house. When she tried to break into my house, my dog bit her, and we didn't get in trouble. She did, because she admitted to it. so like Oh, I tried to go in there to shut the dog up. I'm like, you're a dumbass. You got bit.
00:57:36
Speaker
Yeah, I just heard it. You put it on yourself at the end of the day if you walked in without. So I remember I was going to ask you, with the writing the jokes and trying new jokes, do you ever try them out on your fiance, make him like- in public Oh, yeah, definitely. We'll just sit in here talking, and then all of a sudden I'll blurt out what I want to say, and he'll start laughing at me.
Inspirations and Mental Health in Comedy
00:58:03
Speaker
I do that to Adam, too, but like a lot of the times like's for my open mic night, I like to keep them a secret, because my fiancé will come, or Adam will be sitting there, and I genuinely want him, because I record him when he's up on stage, and he records me, so like I genuinely want to hear if he's cracking up or not at the joke that he's never heard before ever again.
00:58:23
Speaker
i'll do have I do have my repeats, but like If it's something that I need to hear, if it's okay or not, I'll test it. And my fiance is the kind of person who'll laugh at almost anything because, you know, you got a women's always right kind of thing.
00:58:36
Speaker
And I look at them like, dude, if it's not funny to say you suck. It's all good. it's both I do try occasionally. I'll try on certain jokes that I'll be like, hey, Adam, how does this sound?
00:58:48
Speaker
Or, hey, how does this sound? And if they say, oh, it sounds this way, I'll take their advice and if it sounds better the way I originally wrote it, I'll like, nope, see ya. Yeah. yeah um ah yeah It's nice to have a soundboard or you know kind of a built-in little audience yeah that you could you know kind of try and stick your toes in the water first to kind of get there. You may not listen to their advice and be like, you know what, you might not find it funny, but other people might. But you know it's still nice to have that voice.
00:59:25
Speaker
that that in your life, you can go, because, I mean, shoot, every time I end a show, the first person I ask is my girlfriend. I'm like, so what do you think? If it was bad, she'll tell me. or if the you know Or, you know, whatever the case may be, she'll tell me. She'll be honest with me. Or if I have an idea for a show, which I have a lot of ideas, she'll kind of yank the chain and pull me back, rein me back in. That's the greatest thing I've ever seen.
00:59:51
Speaker
It's good to have that support system, but it's also good to judge in the room before you speak because don't say something out of context and just look around at people like, you did not just say that. I've done it a million times over. Like I've,
01:00:04
Speaker
lived in and in the shelter and I was in the common area and I started talking to somebody and I didn't realize what I was saying until I heard laughter in the background. One of the caseworkers just looking at me like, you you need to stop because they're all laughing. They couldn't stop laughing.
01:00:20
Speaker
And then the one in the back goes, you shouldn't have said that. I'm like, well, you're the one I'm not going to listen to. if they're laughing, it works. I have a tendency to just freak people out because I'll get an idea and I'll go, oh shit, well fuck.
01:00:35
Speaker
Because it pops into my head and that's my first my my girlfriend I freak her out constantly. She's like what what is wrong? Nothing. I just got an idea hey let me run this question <unk>s That's a bad idea, but let's do it like I got um, I got out on the shirt for his birthday I said I said it says that is a very bad idea what time because that's our motto. It's like It's crazy
01:00:58
Speaker
that's correct um
01:01:03
Speaker
being Being new into the comedy world, do is there are comedians that you um that you really like that you kind of... This is a roundabout question that kind of gets multiple answers because ah the the basic question is, who's your favorite comedian?
01:01:20
Speaker
um and I haven't really had the time actually yeah that up to about that. Obviously, the obvious ones are like Robin Williams, Richard Pryor,
01:01:32
Speaker
um Chris Farley, Adam Sandler. I like those comedians. But I also, there's mentally Taylor Comilson. She's a comedian who openly speaks about her or bipolar, her ADHD, that kind of thing.
01:01:45
Speaker
And I just did a report on her for psychology for my final paper. And she goes around and she doesn't need no filter. She just talks about it. She doesn't care. And that's where I want to kind of see my, you were asking me the five year mark with the whole psychology thing. I want to be able to openly talk about it and not have somebody be super offensive or offended about it.
01:02:04
Speaker
But you know, it's America. Nobody's not going to be offended. this and okay So it's just like, I think she's one of the ones that, And I could be missing a whole bunch of other people. I'm open to suggestions but who to watch who are open about they're more female than male because there's a lot of male people out there that do comedy, but female more. so i don't you don't see very many female comedians who are open about who they are.
01:02:32
Speaker
They just comedy and that's it.
01:02:39
Speaker
More people popping in from this. du
01:02:46
Speaker
a Yeah, no, in the last few years, there there really seems to be a surgence in female comedians that are really starting to blow up and and really jumping all over.
01:03:02
Speaker
and in the nice thing about a lot of, you know, you had um you had this section of female comedians that they were over-sexualized. that's That was their shtick. was i'm gonna just be It's all going to be sexual in nature. It's all going to be you know whatever.
01:03:22
Speaker
But now you've got a lot of legit ah female comedians out there and they're killing it. yeah in Definitely a lot of doors are being open for women in comedy.
01:03:37
Speaker
Probably the last year. 100%. Like, I want to be, like, I tell people, I'm not a girly girl, so to say. I'll dress up when I need to dress up. But, like, this is my dress-up shirt, you know.
01:03:48
Speaker
I'm a Tom Wade. I want people to be who they are. I don't want people to have to act like somebody they're not. And that's where I'm kind of, like, looking at into, you know, who I look up to or look down to, depending on how short they are.
01:04:00
Speaker
um You know, it's just who they are and how they are. And I want more open about, like, you know, mental illness and things like that and people who have been through experiences who want to talk about their experiences and that's who I'm looking for pretty much.
01:04:16
Speaker
Yeah, definitely comedy to be found in mental health. Definitely. There's a lot of crazy in this little package. Yeah. um Yeah, I know I'm one that jokes around. I can be very serious about mental health, but I can joke around and make jokes and and everything like that. I think sometimes that's therapeutic when you can incorporate real-life mental um health issues and make it laugh you know make make jokes out of and be able to laugh at it. It's very therapeutic and it's very healing.
01:04:53
Speaker
You know, I mean, definitely. It's it's kind of a thing where like you can't see you can talk about mental health, but you don't know what each individual is going through. So if you hear even hear an ADHD joke or a bipolar joke from somebody, they're going to tell you from their experience, not from what you're experiencing.
01:05:11
Speaker
So that's where I kind of want to be one of those people. Like, here's my experience. Yeah, you've heard jokes like this before, but you haven't heard it from my point of view. And that's exactly where I wanted to be. nice Have you started leaning more towards that in your joke writing already? Or, you know, are you?
01:05:28
Speaker
I sprinkle it in there like fairy dust every once in a while. I'm going to try out a couple of bigger steps as we go along, but I started off small, you know, well, not really small. My dog's a murderer when you try to come in the house, but it's more or less, you know, see how people work with it. and And I see a lot of people talking about mental health and going to therapy and things like that.
01:05:49
Speaker
you know, I think I left my had my therapist quit. I think she was done with me already. Your therapist needs a therapist. She's like, this is my third therapist that's gone through it with me, and she finally left me for something else.
01:06:02
Speaker
And it was kind of funny. And I made a joke about that. i was like, oh, well, she's going to need a therapist. Who's next? I've got whole list of interview questions. Let's see if you've got the interview first. yeah just with great thank Bring in. One after another. but it just Yeah,
01:06:21
Speaker
not that that It absolutely happens. With the with the open the mic for you guys, how long do you get up there? Five minutes. You get five minutes. What they call it, they light you up at four.
01:06:34
Speaker
I just say it's hot flashes. um But, yeah, they basically, um you get five minutes to to tell your jokes and everything, and then they give you a minute of warning when you have to tone it down and start winding down and things like that.
01:06:48
Speaker
That's not bad. I mean, that's that you hear a lot of open mics and and you get like two, three minutes. Five minutes is, I mean, you can do a lot up there in five minutes. Definitely. Or you can eat a lot of shit in five minutes.
Benefits of Open Mics
01:07:01
Speaker
Yeah, there she goes again. yes It's okay. She's just going to be a regular in the background, everybody. yeah I saw my shadow. Now i must bark at it. Right?
01:07:12
Speaker
Or no, I see people that know me. Adam's here and my fiance's here. So girl she's barking at them. Pay attention to her. Pay attention to me, you sons of bitches. pretty much. I can hear her saying that, too.
01:07:26
Speaker
i sure her saying that too
01:07:30
Speaker
So do you, are, are you working on anything outside of the open mics? Like maybe doing another show or you want to try to get onto a show or anything like that? Um, at the moment, like was saying, we're going to see how that goes with trying to do another improv.
01:07:47
Speaker
Um, I would like to try, you know, go into a different open mic situation. I know they, they started a new open mic down here at the Rivet. Um, go maybe test my foot in that one, see how it goes.
01:07:59
Speaker
um But I don't really, you know, I just want to keep continuing to try to build the free to stage fright and get rid of that as much as I can before I try, like, bigger arenas with, like, 60, 70, 80 people, you know. I can deal with the 20 people in the front row.
01:08:14
Speaker
That's pretty much it. Well, I mean, absolutely. I mean, if there's an opportunity for another venue to do an open mic, I can't jump all over that. Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
01:08:25
Speaker
the The great thing about that is, so this is where, you know, in this is even something that, you know, we we have to be careful of here with doing shows.
01:08:37
Speaker
um You know, you respond it's it's generally the same group of people. You know, you can get out you can get a better understanding of where you are as a comedian or as you're growing.
01:08:52
Speaker
you know, when you change those spots or spots, because you're going to get a different group of people, new people that are going to get to get to hear your jokes. And that's just going to work out in your, in your benefit at the end of the day. You got to be willing to explore and go on adventure. Definitely. I'm not, I'm not opposed to it. I'm open to trying, you know, step in the toes in the water, know, and trying somewhere else or something else. It's,
01:09:21
Speaker
If I had an opportunity to tell jokes somewhere else and somebody like, hey, we want to hear what you got to do. Come on down and let's see what you can do. I'm like, bet. I'm on my way. oh listen with the I'll open with the face right joke just so you know what you're working with. Yeah.
Reflection and Enthusiasm for Comedy
01:09:35
Speaker
Well, that's the great thing about, you know, the open mics is that you got you you guys could just, you just go, show up, sign up, put your name on the list. yeah yeah You don't have to. Play for the first spot you don't have to be in the back, you know, that kind thing.
01:09:48
Speaker
Yeah. I thought it feels like if these open mics, they fight for like, you got to line up according to how you got there, but how to heck do you know who got there first? So everybody's fighting to get one.
01:09:59
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. um But you know that, Opens up doors because, you know, if it's ah if it's a bar or brewery that's like, you know, we do the open mic on Tuesdays, but on, you know, Friday nights, we we actually have comedy in here.
01:10:13
Speaker
You know, i you get that opportunity to be like, hey, you want to come back and do a set on a Friday night? You know, it's not just open mic. and it's ah And then those are people who are paying to see comedy. You know what I mean? Oh, I'd be 100% open to it. 100%. Yeah.
01:10:30
Speaker
Yeah. um Especially you do, I mean, you know, if you're not taking those swings or those shots, man, you just you're just missing opportunities.
01:10:43
Speaker
You miss 100% of the shots that you don't think. Yep. You got to take whatever opportunity. And sometimes you got to make your own opportunities at the end of the day. Yeah, definitely. Like I guess it was explained earlier with the whole promoting this and promoting the the own improv and stuff like that. it's you don't You won't get people to come to see what you're about and who you are if you don't let them know what you're doing.
01:11:08
Speaker
And that's why I tell people, know you know, you got to be open to take risks because if you're not taking the risks, you're going to lose out on a lot of opportunities. Yeah, like i I need to be a motivational speaker. du which just Just go do it.
01:11:24
Speaker
I'd be a terrible motivational speaker because I love the mindset. it'd Be about it. Just fucking do it. Nobody wants to hear you talk about it. Just fucking do it. Shut up.
01:11:37
Speaker
percent Shut the hell up and get out and do it. it's Stop being a little bitch. Right? I already have one of those. I don't need another one. No, I think it's cool. This is the cool thing about this show because I didn't really know where this show was going to go or what it was going to turn out to be.
01:12:00
Speaker
But it's it's it's been really cool because I've had a nice mixture so far in the guests that I've had. um People who've been doing it for a while, who've been on the road and done things, you know.
01:12:14
Speaker
I've had two guests that have been on Kill Tony. I've been more than Kill Tony lined up. But then you also get to speak it in of the people who are who do the game and are like, I don't know, I'll do it all the time. I think I'm funny and, you know, the people...
Engaging with Diverse Guests
01:12:30
Speaker
at the dive bar that does the only thing I'm funny, but know it's just cool to get to get to chat with people from from both sides of the fence of, well, I've been doing this for so long, you know, successful, and then to people that are up and coming and to to see the two totally different, I guess, variants, so to say. come From what I'm seeing, you're doing a lot of job.
01:12:55
Speaker
yeah I enjoy it. I do what I can. and I'm just a jackass with a computer and a camera. I had a filter called a doll. I enjoy it because when I first started doing this stuff, I never thought that I'd be doing interviews and hanging out with comedians and musicians and even people in the in the acting world. you know I've had a few actors and directors that have come across you know that I've come across. and its it's it's It's a really cool thing because then I get to take the journey with you guys, especially when I get to guys like yourself and Adam and the young lady I had on last weekend or last week.
Building an Entertainer Community
01:13:34
Speaker
You're early in your career. so I get to go to this journey and watch you guys grow as you develop and find your your your rhythm and your niche and kind of yeah you as a comedian who you are and I just get to kind of watch and I'm like hey I remember when I had them on yeah and it's a good thing too because you know I kind of like I said experiences are experiences and when when when I spoke to you with Adam when he was on i was like yeah I think I'm going to try that out and by the time I get to that point I'm going to have more experience under my belt
01:14:06
Speaker
to be able to you know answer the questions properly or the most part and you know it's kind of a good experience because now it's exposure like i'm talking to you you're talking to me we share each other stuff it's kind of like okay well now people can see you through my page and understand this is you know cool and vice versa and maybe you know it pans out for everybody and that's what i like about it you know i like supported yeah it's all about it's all about growing the right community um yeah And it and i've I've, the cool thing is that I've developed friendships with some of my past guests.
01:14:41
Speaker
and and and and And one of my friends put it to me like this the other day, him and I were talking. and he's a He's a guest who's been on quite a few times on my music show.
01:14:52
Speaker
And I made the same comment of, i you know, I get to be a small part of your journey. And he's like, no, dude, you're a part of the community. Like you've been there since day one. This is what we do as a community of entertainers.
01:15:03
Speaker
We support each other. we boost each other. We do whatever we can to help each other grow. And we're all have a small part, large part, whatever, in each other's journey to success. Oh, yeah, definitely.
01:15:18
Speaker
i'm ah I'm a believer of if you tell 10 people about your comedy, oh, go go check out Serenity here while those 10 people...
01:15:30
Speaker
Maybe five, of maybe maybe three of them only, maybe only three of them like it. But those three people tell 10 people, those numbers grow quick. Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. You know, it's like, well, only three people liked it out of 10.
01:15:43
Speaker
Yeah, those three people. And those other seven people, they might hate it so bad that they're going go talk shit about you enough to where other people are going to go, I'm going to see how bad she is. Definitely, definitely.
01:15:55
Speaker
And that's the kind of thing that I like. It's like, even if you get one person to look at your video, and everything, you're... what's that? No, like, if you get one person to look at your thing and they go and say, oh, I saw this is lady was awesome. She seemed like a cool person. mean Probably. I'm just talking myself up because, you know that's me.
01:16:14
Speaker
But, no, it's like if you get somebody to say, hey, listen, this person was awesome. Go check them out at this station. They're watching me on your channel. That's exposure there, too.
01:16:25
Speaker
Yeah. And my email English is not working correctly today. My bad. Words are hard. Words are hard. I know, right? I tell people that i have math I have problems with math as well. That's just not the point.
01:16:37
Speaker
Hey, I learned a new thing last week. i didn't know that people could have ah a number of dyslexia. Oh, wow, really? Really, that's the thing.
01:16:48
Speaker
i was like, where's that blue every day? I didn't know that at all. Scorpio in the lounge, not the house. you in the lounge, man.
Improving Improv Shows
01:17:00
Speaker
So are you, you know, with all the craziness and all the mishaps of the, of the improv show, are you guys planning another one? You're going to try to get into your future.
01:17:14
Speaker
Yeah, we are talking about trying. um Well, like I said earlier, we want to definitely have like a venue where we rent it out fully under contract of this is what we are doing.
01:17:25
Speaker
They got their money already. They don't need the money anymore. Let's get the people promoted ourselves. Make sure everything's propostatic and correct. And, you know, we're on top of it. We don't have to go through a third party to do it. And it'll be executed much better.
01:17:39
Speaker
And i was talking to Adam I was like, if we get this situated and we get our venue and we can get the things printed and do the things we need to do and we have the money to do it, it's going turn out a hundred times better than a few people in a shitty lounge or in a city cityty area that wasn't promoted and nobody wanted to do their side to help.
01:17:58
Speaker
yeah So I think that would be a really good, yeah we would definitely try it again once we get the money to be able to fully promote it and fund it and do everything to what we want to do. yeah um For anybody who may have missed the the comedy lounge that had Adam on here with us, Adam Arenas, and you guys can go watch the replay on our YouTube channel. It's there. Or you can go listen to us wherever you listen to podcast at. Go find it. ah and watch it.
01:18:29
Speaker
But do you want to give us a real quick rundown of of what the idea and the concept behind the the improv show that you guys were shooting to go for? Yeah, it's basically like um if you've ever seen Whose Line Is It Anyway. We go up there, people in the audience give suggestions, they put them in little bowls or hats or whatever, and then we just pick from them and we just play games that are made up and you know we just, off the top of our heads, what we do, you know you could say you know things that are blue and Some people who are nasty would say balls and other people would say, you know, like blueberries, something like that kind of, but making it funny and rolling off each other and having some kind of, you know, fun playing games and things like that.
01:19:08
Speaker
And it's all off the top, no script, no nothing. Oh yeah. So if you're into improv, be on the lookout for that. yeah Definitely. Which I mean, if it's done right, improv has been around for forever And yeah a lot of ah lot of comedians out there got their start in improv. Yeah, I have a lot of people. They they were telling me even Adam was like, you're good at improv. You should do it.
01:19:32
Speaker
And then the whole thing had came up to where we only had two people. I'm like, what's going on? you know, what's happening? So you know the redo is definitely needed.
01:19:43
Speaker
It's definitely needed. it And I'll show everybody up that I can do it. No, I'm just Everybody be there or else. No, I mean, it's... but yeah like Like we said earlier failures are good. They're not bad. They're good as long as you you pick yourself up and dust yourself off and go you know what we're gonna do it again. We're gonna do it right and we're gonna do it better.
01:20:04
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. But yeah, I mean, there's there's a lot of names in comedy that would surprise people if you were like, oh, shit, I didn't know that they started on a as a sketch show, an improv sketch show, or you know in theater doing improv. And now they're some of the the bigger names. out There's a lot of Canadian comedians that got to start in improv. I guess that's pretty big up there.
01:20:28
Speaker
Yeah. so Around here, um I don't think improv is super huge around here. It's mostly... regular sketch comedy, open mic, figure it out while you write it down.
01:20:39
Speaker
But, like, I honestly think that, you know, and it would have been a really good show if, you know, we had who we needed, but you can always try it out again. It's nothing. Yeah. Take a shot, go back in the wagon and go.
01:20:51
Speaker
You know, I don't know. yeah impro Improvs are great Or not improvs Open mics are great Again i just in my opinion Not knowing much Improvs are great You just don't want to get yourself locked Or not improvs I said it again Open mics You don't want to find yourself locked into that hole Of all of this Open mic And not really trying to progress any further um That's kind of what I am. I'm like, I don't like doing one thing. If there's an improv, if there's a chance for me to be on a TV show or being comedian, i'm I could do it. you know
01:21:26
Speaker
It's more or less whatever makes you feel like it's going to give you like that, ah ah fort I can't say the word, before you want to do it, it makes you happy. you want to You want to try it out. If that's something you want to do, you do it. Don't just stick to one thing. Try everything out. You might find something better. yeah so With your with your Social media are you are you trying to put more of like your your comedy related stuff on to social media or um Yeah, because i don't There's not a lot yet yeah Well the Facebook I mean on Facebook, it's mainly my personal Facebook I do post my comedy there
01:22:08
Speaker
um I do have like a group page type of thing for my crazy mind. i don't really post much here. It's mostly the writings. That's pretty much it. But for Instagram, mostly I'm working on. I do not like Twitter.
01:22:21
Speaker
Don't get me wrong with those who like Twitter, but I'll try that out. You know, I do want to try to put more of what, you know, anytime I go open mic or if I'm doing anything, I do want to be to post that and able to show this is who I am. This is what I can do.
01:22:34
Speaker
You know, here to show my progress. I think I can you know i think i be open to adding more to my socials for everybody to see if they're open to looking.
Social Media for Exposure
01:22:45
Speaker
with it Well, I mean, that's that's these days, that's a big way to get noticed.
01:22:51
Speaker
you know yeah using Using those ah social medias to your advantage. I've hooked my laptop. That's how half the people got here. I just forced them to come by clicking a link.
01:23:02
Speaker
okay you got to c click it or else Yeah, um you know creating specific pages for your for your comedy and and using it fully to your advantage and I agree with you 100% on Twitter or X or that is a that a deep dark black hole of debauchery and fuckery. Yes, we are on it. What's going on, X?
01:23:29
Speaker
I see you guys out there watching. Thank you guys for watching. in the Yes, I'm paying for it now. but You've got to find the platforms that work best for you. and you know We were going live on Twitch and that's not we're not we're not built for Twitch in any way, shape, or form. yeah We are more built for the chaotic world of X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it. I if I had to bite the bullet, and the only way you can go live is if you pay for So you're welcome, Elon.
01:23:58
Speaker
you know next thank My free flamethrower stupid cyber truck to show up here any day now. Garbage can.
01:24:09
Speaker
Get some extra garbage cans. Those things are so ugly. 100%. Somebody had a camo on up here. No. You can't put camo on a trash can and make it look like a like a cycling bin or whatever you want to call it.
01:24:24
Speaker
if if I had one, Wally, you can appreciate this. If you got your ears on still, I'd run it in rough trucks. Nice. I definitely pay to watch that. But, um, and you gotta, you gotta use these. my i mean, they're free for the most part.
01:24:43
Speaker
Uh, and it's, it's, so and and I tell people all the time and kind of going back to what what we were saying about, you know, creating a community and, and and promoting and stuff like that um you never know whose eyes or ears are going to fall onto something and and ah and and it can open uh a bigger and better door for you more opportunity yeah um you know i've had conversations with with people who um you know who are very eager to come on the to this show or another show uh but then they drop the line of well you don't have a lot of followers
01:25:22
Speaker
or you've got a very big... I understand that. But at the end of the day, you never know who might be listening. Or you may not know what connections ah somebody is that's listening has, and they go, oh, man, this person's fucking hilarious. Or yeah this person's a great musician. I'm going to reach out to a friend and say, hey, you should...
01:25:45
Speaker
Have them open up for you. you know and that's That's the kind of thing that I have. like You could go on the smallest YouTube channel and on the biggest. It's just exposure is exposure.
01:25:55
Speaker
If they have 10 people on their subscription base and the other person has millions, it wouldn't matter where you go. You're still getting exposed. Sounds like I'm a creeper now, but that's beside the point. but not is like She's to go to your social media and expose herself.
01:26:12
Speaker
Yes, very. I'm very exposed. No, but it's the way I say it. You get the exposure however you can. You never know. no No. I get where you can. 100% agree.
01:26:27
Speaker
I don't want to take too much of your time. All right, you're good. and And start to to wrap it up for the night here.
Open Mic Events at SoulJowels
01:26:36
Speaker
But... um Before we get out of here, obviously, let people know where they can find you on social media.
01:26:43
Speaker
We've got it in here in the link as well. So if you're watching, you can click the link. But if you want to let people know where they can find you at or even where they can catch you at doing open mics, because think people listen all over the place here.
01:26:56
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much. ah You can find me at the link below. So, I'm James Comedy on Instagram. um I do open mic at SoulJowels in Potsdam, PA, which is a nice at 7. If you get there a little early get your seats, you're great.
01:27:08
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If you want to sign up at 6.30 to sign up, 7 we start. Pretty much it right now. Yeah, sign up and do some comedy if you're feeling ballsy, if you're feeling brave. If you don't feel funny, they'll laugh at you anyway.
01:27:22
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Yeah, exactly. um One of the things I always like to ask my guests, and you know it is what it is, um especially this is this is a two-part question or you can make it into a one
Advice for Aspiring Comedians
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answer.
01:27:33
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um yeah Anybody who's thinking about getting into comedy, and this has got probably pretty close to home for you since you're so new to it. Anybody getting into comedy or thinking about it, your advice to that. And then a little bit of a life advice that maybe somebody gave you at one point in time that's really stuck in your head and kind of.
01:27:53
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I think I can do a two-parter for you there. i So the advice, if you if I, from my side, anybody get into comedy, don't think, overthink it. Just step into it. Do what I did. Just get on the stage, write a few jokes, even if they're not funny.
01:28:07
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You don't have to go through the pool five minutes or whatever it is. Tell a couple of jokes. If you think something's hilarious, write it down and say it. Don't be scared to get your foot stepping into the whole door.
01:28:19
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You're going to, get it slammed on your foot. Keep trying. you know, it's It's how you start, not how you feel like you need to start. oop Basically, I just jumped into it.
01:28:31
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And look where I'm at. Funny? Kind of. hit And, you know, the life advice that I was told was actually by my mom. She passed away a couple years ago. She told me, you're never going to be genuine if you act like someone else. And this is what i was talking about earlier, is you have to be completely fake.
01:28:51
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You don't deserve to be around other people. So always be yourself. You're going to be funnier. You're going to better. You're going to smarter. You're going to be approachable if you're yourself.
01:29:02
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Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. Couldn't not agree more with that. If you guys are checking us out, watching the replay, watching the slide, make sure you go give Serenity a follow. She's everywhere. Well, she's not everywhere yet, but she will get there. Go check her out. She is on the Instagram, like she said.
01:29:22
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Serenity Camp's comedy. Give her a follow, give her a like. And be on, you know, watch her journey that she's on here with ah with comedy. We all got to start somewhere.
01:29:35
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And, you know, at the end of the day. The only way at the end the day. I'll be watching a fan, checking you out, seeing where you guys are at. The cool thing about it it's always nice to, the future, down the road,
01:29:51
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um checking out what see where you guys are at and the cool thing about it is it's it's always nice to you know in the future down the road being able to bring people back and see where they are from the first time they were on you know which shout out to all you comedians i don't think i will be bringing anybody back anytime soon because y'all are nuts and i love you guys because you have filled my calendar insanely uh i know there were some nice tears out there so i had no business doing the show interviewing comedians um but um
01:30:27
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the comedians in the world out there, they seem to think differently. And they've booked me up all the way through the, almost into November at this point. So. ask if they will come.
01:30:38
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Yeah. Which is wild to me because I always like, I'm like, I'm booking guests for October, November right now. And they're like, yeah, okay, cool. I'm opening all of October. Give me a date. I'm like, shit, that's like six months from now, bro. Yeah.
01:30:53
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but But they don't fucking care. So shout out to all the
Support and Upcoming Shows
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comedians. um somebody i want to do my spiel. You're you're welcome to sit here and and hang out while I do my spiel. Or if you want, you can drop down and then I'm going do my spiel and we're going get the flock out of here.
01:31:10
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I'll stick around. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for hanging out. ah Real quick special shout out to my daughter. She is now licensed and on the road, unsupervised for the most part.
01:31:26
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So if you're in the central Ohio area, be on the lookout and be mindful because she is a safe driver, a good driver. She also has zero fucks to give and she's likely to run you off a road and on the highway. but congratulations to my daughter uh buggy that was awesome she killed the driving test today and uh drove herself to school afterwards and she's doing doing uh big girl things man so i couldn't be more proud of her um also on a programming uh side note thank you guys for all the support and everything like that um
01:32:08
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You guys watch, you listen, you you like what we're doing, you're telling friends about us and everything like that. We have reached a couple of milestones, which I'll go further into detail about this coming Saturday, um which is awesome for us and and our brand and our network. So thank you guys for that. ah Yeah.
01:32:31
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So its just keep watching, keep listening. um Hit that like, share, subscribe button, tell a friend. um We got a lot of things going on here. Wal Cephas, I see you are in the chat.
01:32:45
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What are you doing on your show, Bate? You got Thursday, you got Friday, you got Monday. what do you got coming up real quick? um Tune in tomorrow. Obviously, Wally's back for Speedway Story. I'm off.
01:33:00
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Have a good one. For Speedway Stories Thursday, Friday, Wally's Motorsports World.
01:33:11
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And then Saturday, Nonsensical Nonsense. And I think we got Cassius Corner Saturday as well. Tuesday, i have J Devil coming back for his second time on Glick's House of Music. And I have Comedian...
01:33:27
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Trevor Klutner next Wednesday night. So no shows rest of the week because he's he's he's suspended with no pay, but he'll be off suspension Monday and he has Jackson...
01:33:44
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tap think Coach. I don't know how you pronounce it. You people need easier names. um So, yeah, there you have it. No Wally for the rest of the week. But check out the shows.
01:33:55
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Give us a like. Give us share. Give us follow. Bio.link slash nonsensicalnetwork. ah You can support the shows on the Cash App and the Venmo and the PayPal. If you'd like to, you don't have to. And I think we got new stuff on the YouTubes that you guys can do now as well. So, appreciate y'all.
01:34:17
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Hells yeah. That's why I didn't have a show last night. Not awards. A band concert, excuse me. But anywho, see you guys when I see you guys.
01:34:27
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Thanks for watching Glick's Comedy Lounge where comedy is unleashed every Wednesday night. ah
01:34:41
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That'll ah that'll c cleanse your palates. A little kissing, Lilith. What to die for? go give them a follow, give them a like, and give them a share, too. And tell tell Gavin that Glick sent you.
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To love, to lust, to hate, the glory of a bastard. A beautiful disaster in the eye of a storm.
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Hesitate to paint the details of point.
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The sins I've ignored Digging deeper, traumatize the limits Come on, won't you cut me open Don't you scratch the surface I'm digging deeper, tell me I deserve this Come on, won't you cut me open
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Shade foundation on an eyesore Her majesty is gently knocking on my door again Pretend to sleep and dream about her offer And suffocate myself and drown little
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Digging deeper, traumatize the limits Come on, won't you cut me open Don't you scratch the surface I'm digging deeper, tell me I deserve this Come won't you cut me open