Brinn Daniels

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Welcome back to the Clean Comedy Chat.
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This is the weekly podcast where we interview a different comedian each week from the Clean Comedy Collective, which is a virtual comedy network that spans all across America.
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We have 250 comedians from 40 different states and one from Switzerland.
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We're happy you're here.
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We're happy to do another interview.
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I'm very excited about my guest today.
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Um, because uh first of all, uh everyone give it up for Brynn Daniels.
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Hey Bryn, how's it going?
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Hey Drew, thanks for having me.
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Thanks for being here.
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Um Brynn is actually, I was thinking about the best way of saying this because it's gonna it's gonna make me sound like a jerk.
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But I can't wait.
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Um, but so when you do comedy, you have tons of like we're all charismatic, friendly, fun people.
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But like, I'll be honest, like as a comedian, I'm friends with like 10 of them, right?
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So Brent Bryn would make the list.
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Make the list of, I mean, you have you have you're you have the every you're friendly with everyone, but then you have the real comedians you count on that you are real, like you'd hang out with them outside of like I know your family, like we've like I feel like we we've gone to church.
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Yeah, you know my mom.
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You're one of my mom's favorite comedians.
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So and that I wear that on my heart.
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Like that is a real that is the credit.
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In addition to being a comedian, she's also uh works in film, you teach film.
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I don't I never know.
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Have you were you ever like you've always taught it, or have you you were like in it though?
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Like you you're like I freelanced for a bit, I made music videos, um, a lot of uh kind of corporate and I did advertising for 10 years.
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So that was most of what I did.
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I got to do the fun stuff on the side.
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I was in advertising, I was in like the film department of an advertising firm for a decade.
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Yeah.
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Um did you did you like it back then?
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Like you it's so different than like you you teach and do comedy now.
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Like that's like those are different things.
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I mean, I liked that because it was such a small company.
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There was like, I think when I was hired, I was the 11th or I mean it was very small.
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So I got to do a little, I sang jingles, I got to direct sometimes, I got to act on them sometimes, and it was really fun.
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Oh, cool.
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Yeah.
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And then by the time I left, I think there were like 35 people.
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And we were just having to travel more.
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And then it wasn't it wasn't as fun for a mom.
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Right.
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Like I just I just I just can't make this work.
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And missing, you know, having to choose between my son's birthday and you know, a shoot.
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And so I was just like, yeah, this isn't gonna work anymore.
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So then I decided to kind of scoot over into teaching.
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Yeah.
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Well, I guess it I mean it's like everything has a season, like it worked when you when you didn't have a kid to go like spend the birthdays with, it was more fun probably yeah.
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That's cool.
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So and then um, so something exciting about Bryn, um, and as it pertains to the Clean Comedy Collective, is uh Bryn is our second uh Walmart special that we've released on our YouTube channel.
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Uh you have a tight Walmart 10.
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A Walmart special, words that have never been we're we're making it a thing.
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Sounds like a gross plate of food, but it's actually a very enjoyable 10 minutes of your life if you want to spend it.
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We do a monthly comedy show in Franklin, Tennessee at a Walmart, at a at a podcast studio in a Walmart, so it's not like out by the produce.
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It is right, however, speaking of gross things at Walmart, it is right next to like sushi that you could buy that they keep telling me is good.
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They keep trying to get us to buy that sushi and nobody's biting.
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No, no.
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And you know, even last time I was there, I was looking around for someone, like, oh, does someone like like is it would they give it to you?
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No, it's just right out there in the refrigerator.
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Just yeah, yeah.
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Maybe I bet they'll get you eventually.
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You'll hear it like for that 50th time.
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You'll be like, all right.
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All right, I'll try the sushi, and then I'll come back to like, oh my gosh, that sushi was as amazing as they said.
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Oh my gosh, that's what's gonna happen.
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They'll infect you with that, and then you're gonna tell every comedian, oh man.
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It's like it's like the wire, you know.
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Right, absolutely.
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You watch the wire and then you have to tell everybody how much.
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Yeah, it's I don't, I don't know.
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I don't, I don't, I don't, I even good sushi, I'm a little weary of, so I don't know.
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So but we can't sushi's not gonna do it for you.
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Probably not.
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Uh but you know what they do have is a wonderful monthly comedy show that we're both part of it.
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And so one of the things we do with this show is uh we record all the routines and then we post it um online on our uh Clean Comedy Collective YouTube channel, uh, which some of you might be watching this podcast on.
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So you could just hop over.
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Hop over there.
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Yeah, Bryn's got a special that came out last Wednesday, and then I had a special that came out last week.
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I'll be honest, I put that special out there to just get the things rolling.
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Like I don't if you watch it and you're like, ooh, I don't know about this guy, watch another video.
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Like, but but then I knew like the the next four, like yours and Ashley and and and and Renard's and Rhonda's that that are coming out, like those are solid.
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Mine was like a good, good quality host set where you're warming them up.
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They they didn't know about laughing.
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It's a tough thing when you're hosting, right?
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They aren't warm, you know, so you're not gonna get the same response.
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And we also did have uh just a room full of church people, right?
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Richard, they're I God bless them, literally.
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But they are they're quieter, they're a quieter audience.
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They were a nice, nice they're very polite, very polite.
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They just don't they don't want to they don't want to interrupt your joke with their laughter.
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So true.
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They just they'll let you keep saying I did, I had such a uh you don't normally get nice YouTube or TikTok comments, but I had such a nice comment at one of my jokes where someone was like, that joke needed more reaction than it got.
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And I was like, thank you, strange man or woman.
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How nice to get like a nice random person and not just the one under it said back to the drawing board.
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So so they they like to keep you humble.
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Yeah, it's like it's like having kids.
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Yeah.
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The YouTube trolls are my kids.
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YouTube trolls say the darndest things, right?
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Absolutely.
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There we go.
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Well, um, well, so your Walmart special is already out.
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It's been out for a few days.
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Uh is it's extra credit, extra kid.
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Um, and she talks about both of those in her special, if you can believe it.
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Um, but what I also wanted you to tell us a little bit about was you have another special coming up in December.
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I do.
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And it's gonna be twice as long, and it's gonna have some different jokes, and it's gonna be great.
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Uh, we shot it at the station theater down in uh Smyrna, Tennessee.
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Yeah.
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Love that place.
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Really, really beautiful theater.
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Great people down there.
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Um, and I'm gonna release it on December 6th because that is my anniversary, my seventh year of comedy from the first time trying comedy.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, so I'm very excited for the anniversary and to get that out on the anniversary.
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I feel like, and I haven't known you for seven years, but I feel like I've known you for four or five years.
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I feel like I've been on, I feel like I've watched your comedy journey, but I I didn't realize I missed I picked up on season three and not season one or two.
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Well, here's why because I started, I took a class at Third Coast, right?
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As a lot of us do.
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Uh, Mark Anunson was my teacher.
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He's great.
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Fantastic, super funny, great person to learn from.
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Uh, but that was December 2019.
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Ah, yeah.
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Well I can't imagine what happened shortly after that.
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That most people's careers were over for a year or two at that point.
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You know, when when the big wigs, like people who've been doing comedy their entire lives, are doing backyard shows.
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I'm not getting a spot on anybody's, you know, show.
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So uh, but yeah, but then I then I got hooked up with the Clean Comedy Collective because Bet that was when you guys were doing an open mic in East Nashville.
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Yeah, at a at a juice bar.
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At a juice bar, and I went every week, almost every week, um, and was able to try out new jokes, and you gave me a shot on some of your real shows from there.
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We had you on the Third Coast, uh, one the Nashville All-Star Show.
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Um we had several times on that one.
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Yeah, I play uh that one always opened with us playing All-Star from Smashmouth, and now I can't hear that song without thinking of uh but I remember the first time I met you at Juice Par at Juice PAL um and have never told you the story before.
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So this is a exclusive um Let me see if I remember it.
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Well, uh from your perspective, it would have just been like you signed up for the open mic and I said, Hey, how's it going?
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Okay.
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But when you walked in, I thought you were a completely different person who I met earlier in the week.
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I get that.
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So I walked over with all like, hey, how's it going?
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It's great to see you.
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And and of course, you probably just thought, like, oh, what an overly exuberant hello or whatever.
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Nice young man.
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Right, absolutely.
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And then you signed up and you sat back down, and I thought to myself, that was not the person that that is a different white woman.
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I get that a lot.
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Yeah, it was a different white woman.
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Yeah, yeah, it was, yeah, it was and and and but then what's funny is like then be we became really good friends, and I don't have a clue who the original person I thought you were was.
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It was like a different comedian who I was like, Oh, I'm starting a new open mic, you should come do it.
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Yeah, and uh I was so excited because I thought like someone I told about the open mic showed up.
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Uh she did not, but but but you but I did you did and I become one of your less than 10.
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That's right, you friends in the middle.
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You made it to my my less than 10 list.
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I like how all my lists, uh whether it's Walmart 10 or less than 10.
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10 or less.
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Is that from your old checkout days?
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Is that what it must be?
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It must be the public's PTSD.
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It just fits, but but yeah, that's uh it's funny because I always remember because like we did become really good friends, but like the first time I met you, I you know, casually thought you were a completely different person.
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So I'll take that.
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That's fine.
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Yeah, it's okay.
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I have that look about me.
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I've heard, yeah.
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I don't I also have bad eyesight, and it that was a weird room.
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Bad eyesight, bad sense of smell.
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No sense of smell.
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So let's talk about comedy.
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Let's uh and you and comedy.
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Um, that is why we're here, after all.
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Um, side note, I didn't do half of my plug, which is like go to our website, cleancomedycollective.com.
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Both me and Brynn are in the Tennessee section, but you can check out wherever you're from.
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You can check out what comedians are in your area.
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Um, you can also see earlier podcast episodes, you can see what shows we have coming up, assuming I update it by the time you it is early September right now, which means it's still showing a lot of August shows, but like by the time you check it out, it'll be updated.
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It'll be perfect by the way.
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So perfect.
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Um, but yeah, we have a lot of cool things.
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There's also a donation function, and you can join our Patreon, get full episodes, and um uh eventually, sometime down the line, I'll have a new thing for patrons.
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But uh, we're not even close to that yet.
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Like, I need to actually do it, but um, and then I can talk about it.
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But it's it's just you know, you all just stick around until then.
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Just make it sound really cool and secretive, and it'll just change your life for the better.
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Everything you thought was good that you knew.
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You'll want to be the first one in, stay tuned.
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Yeah, it's gonna be great.
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So we I know we know you you started comedy seven years ago during uh during the pandemic, and then you came back to comedy a few years once it was safe again.
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Uh but w I always ask this to the guest, why?
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What made you think, like, uh, let's do some stand-up comedy?
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I always wanted to do stand-up comedy.
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Like, I remember vividly when I think it was 1996 when Comedy Central became a thing.
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Like, I I remember it.
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I watched it all the time.
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It was my favorite thing.
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I just really got into stand-up comedy.
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When I went to college, I was in New York City.
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Um, and you would think that I would have started it there, but I was just too shy.
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I was like, no, I can't do that.
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That was like terrifying to me because it's all you and you are, you know, it's you're basically putting your personality up there.
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And if people don't like it, it's like that's terrifying.
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Yeah.
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So I did improv and some other things.
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Um I when I was at NYU, actually, the person that I made become my best friend, we're in the very first class, and she's talking about herself, you know, intros.
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And she says, and I do stand-up comedy on the weekends, and I was like, Oh, I'm gonna make you be friends with me.
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And then she ended up being um uh she ended up being in my wedding.
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She's awesome, she lives in Turkey now.
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Um, but anyways, so I just always, always loved it, always wanted to try it, was always too terrified.
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And then being uh, you know, like you mentioned, I I'm a professor um at a university, so I'm an academic.
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So uh I, you know, had some kids, uh, you know, had my life change and everything, and was like, I need to do something for myself.
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Uh so I decided as an academic, I would take a class.
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I'm gonna take a class, and then and then if I feel like I can do it, I will do it.
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And I just I was like, why did I wait this long?
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This is amazing.
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I I loved it.
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I got the bug and I've never wanted to stop.
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Yeah, it's I mean, like it is to me one of the best things ever to perform.
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Like it's just the feeling of performing.
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So then if you're talking to someone who's like kind of like you and shy and wants to try stand-up comedy, but like is is too shy quote unquote too shy to do it, like what is like what would be good advice you'd give them to get them like off their seat and onto the mic?
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I mean, I think if you're shy, you just have to get up there and do it, you know?
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And the more you do it, the more comfortable you get with it.
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Um and if you're worried about what people think about you, like that just don't be, you know.
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Nobody they're all just thinking and this is the the secret about an open mic too, is that they're all comics.
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Right.
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Almost all the open mics, there are a couple exceptions, but they're all comics, and they're literally just sitting there thinking about the jokes that they're gonna tell.
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They're so worried about themselves, um, but that they're not really thinking about you.
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And if you can surprise them and make them laugh, you know, it's the best feeling in the world.
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And also you're not gonna be good at it at first.
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So don't don't worry about that.
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You it will bomb.
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Yeah, it's like any other skill.
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Like, I think about like if I decide today to take a pottery glass, it's not the first thing I make on the a throw or whatever, I don't know, like the the thing.
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I don't know what those are called.
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Yeah.
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Well, the first thing I do, it's probably gonna like crack and splatter and go all that, but like it's a new skill, like that's okay.
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And and a lot of people, I know because I teach them, a lot of people go into comedy thinking, well, I'm gonna kill the first time I'm up there, or like, or they get so bummed out if they bomb, or if they it's like it's like you're new to this.
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Like, that's yeah, it what kind of part of me is like, what do you expect to happen?
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So like it's it's the same thing with any with anything.
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I tell my film students all the time, I'm like, look, here's the good, and I I have teach a lot of freshmen, you know, first-time filmmakers, and I go, here's the good news and the bad news.
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This class, this is gonna be the worst film that you ever make because it's all uphill from here.
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Yeah, it's just about getting reps, and even more so in comedy.
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Trying things, figuring it out.
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And like some things, I mean, as you get going more too, you'll realize that some things do really, really well in this room and not as well over here.
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Um, and it's just something that you have to learn to read the audience, and there's no way to do that except to do it.
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And you yeah, you you learn by doing it.
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And and I feel like sometimes you learn by doing it incorrectly.
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Um for me, yeah.
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For me, um, I've I I have two church shows this weekend, and I feel pretty comfortable now doing like longer sets at churches, but like I feel like one of the main reasons I feel like that is because I have done enough of my material that I learned later, don't do that in a church because I didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and I did it and didn't get laughed.
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So I was like, okay, so don't do that one at church.
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Got it.
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Yeah, yeah, because it's not even about if you're necessarily going to offend them, there's just certain sensibilities where things are gonna land better or worse in different respects.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I know that's something we've talked about in earlier episodes with um comedians that specialize in church, but it's like you're asking a lot in an audience in a church, like, hey, yeah, while you're staying with all the people that you want to think like you're holy and your pastors over there, right, laugh at this.
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Yeah.
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So and it's like they'll they'll you'll there's like always like a little pause because they're waiting to see if it's like appropriate.
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Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.879
So so um now, do you um you work do you work all clean or mostly?
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I feel like I've I feel like I've only seen clean from you.
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So yeah, I I used to have one joke where I kind of like towed the line and it just it just felt like it wasn't me.
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Yeah, you know, and so I it it was pretty early on that I was trying it out.
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Um so I didn't really have my voice yet.
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And I, you know, quickly I was like, oh, this isn't working because it's not me.
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Yeah, it's not coming off authentic.
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That's it.
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So I dropped it, you know, pretty quickly.
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And yeah, I'm just all clean.
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That's that's just my personality.
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And I think you hit the nail on the head with like, that's just me, right?
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Yeah.
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Like um, and I I do specialize and gravitate towards clean comedy, but like I realized a couple of years ago I'm not always clean.
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Like sometimes I feel I blame clever.
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I've heard you say a couple naughty words.
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Yeah, I do.
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But I but my big thing always is like I don't want to like make people feel less than so or or right, I do believe there's certain rooms that not clean comedy is not appropriate.
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They don't want that, so you don't entertain people's number one.
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So yeah, yeah.
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No, I you we've been on some shows together.
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We did some um Florida shows.
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We've two years in a row.
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We've gone to Clearwater and um St.
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Pete Beach.
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We're that's like on our life.
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That's our new rotation, yeah.
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Yeah, well, you took me to the Hulk Hogan Museum.
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I mean, when in Rome, you know.
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We had Gator.
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I I gave Drew Gator tale.
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Yeah, I wear in Clearwater, I had to.
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That's just that so those that's always a fun time.
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We've been there twice.
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Um, and you were this last time uh on the way to St.
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Pete, you uh wearing the rental car with me, and you got to help me figure out like how to work everything.
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So that was fun.
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That was fun.
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Oh, and I got you a Cuban sandwich.
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That's right.
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Now, see, here's the thing.
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Um, it was a delightful Cuban sandwich, by the way.
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I didn't know until we were there that like that was what they were known for.
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Like I've had I've had plenty of Cuban sandwiches in my life.
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I didn't realize like that.
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You haven't had a real one until then.
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Yeah.
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So now I can say I've had a real Cuban and that was was that in Tampa?
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Okay.
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In Tampa, yeah.
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Because that's where uh the history of Tampa, like we had a lot of Cubans there.
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There were all the Cuban cigar factories.
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In fact, you'll still see them there, like the brick buildings with the smoke.
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Yeah, so that's uh that's kind of the delicacy.
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Yeah, we got the Cuban of Tampa.
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Yeah.
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We ain't fancy folk, but we got Cuban sandwiches.
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And a guava pastry.
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So next week, that sounds good.
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Get you a guava pastry.
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That's that that's season three.
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So yeah, so we we're actually started with Gatortail.
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It's only up from there, you know what I mean?
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That's true.
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Gator tail, Cuban sandwich.
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Um we'll have guava pastry.
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Guava pastries.
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That's awesome.
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I'm I'm looking forward to that.
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So, but this is interesting.
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So, uh, first of all, when we go and we perform in Florida, especially at the Clearwater show, um, like everyone Brynn knows and grew up with just shows up at this show.
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So, like she three three she has lots of just uh people that come.
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Well, you know what?
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It it's my dad.
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My dad is my biggest supporter.
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My dad will bully his friends into coming to see even if they were just there.
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He seems so sweet, but you better believe he's got like backhanded blackmail tactics.
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He's like, Oh, I'll get I'll fill the room.
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And he does, yeah.
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No, he doesn't.
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And then my mom, you know, my mom and dad come to every single show.
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They are they're so nice.
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They're they're they're like, I I feel like at this point they're my Florida adopted parents.
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Um oh yeah.
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My mom felt so, but she's like, I didn't buy a t-shirt this.
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I was like, Mom, I'll get you a t-shirt from Drew.
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So they just they love, but they love you because they they're like they they know how big a part of my comedy journey that you've been, and all the you know, all the uh shows that you've gotten me on and the confidence, you know.
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I mean, I mean, really have you to thank for a lot of that, and my parents also thank you.
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Really, really thank you.
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It's funny because I'm thinking of like some of the really weird shows that we've done, and we're like, yeah, that's part of it.
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That is part of it.
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But then we also got to do cool shows in St.
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Pete and other places.
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Yeah.
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So is it weirder for you?
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Because I mean, like, I'm not exaggerating, I would say, like, we'd look around the room and be like, oh, everyone Brynn knows us here.
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Yeah.
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Um, is it weirder for you to perform in front of a room full of people you know, or like a room full of strangers?
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Now I don't think there's really a difference.
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I mean, I kind of they both feel the same because I feel so comfortable on stage.
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Um, but I also think that's something to do with being clean.
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I think I would feel very differently if I were, you know, talking about sex or like other other like doing drugs or something on stage.
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I think then it would feel very different.
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But because it's but it's all clean, you don't have anything to worry about.
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Yeah, that's a good point.
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That's a another I don't think people talk about that enough when they talk about perks of doing clean comedy, is like, well, you can say your joke in front of whoever you want.
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I can say the same joke in front of my kids.
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In fact, I run I have I do a lot of jokes about my kids, and I run those by the kids because they're gonna see it one day.
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You know, I want to make sure that they're not totally embarrassed by it.
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Um, and so far, they haven't vetoed anything.
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So that's gonna be so hard.
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I I I know your youngest of the best out of the three of them.
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It's gonna be so hard when she gets to an age where she's just like, that one's not funny.
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Because she won't she won't say it in like a nice, delicate way.
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She'll be like, here's the thing.
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She's very honest.
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Yeah.
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But she also appreciates a joke, you know.
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Yeah.
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So I mean, all my kids do.
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They've grown up that way, you know.
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We have a saying in our house, and it is if it's funny enough, you will not get in trouble.
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Ah, there we go.
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I like that.
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That's a good saying.
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We use that, yeah.
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Oddly enough, that can be true and stand up as well.
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Like if you so try to if you say, especially like a clean show, if and don't clean comedians don't do this.
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Like, I'm just saying, I don't even this is so such a stupid.
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She might not get hired again, but yeah.
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But especially definitely not at a church show.
00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:02.720
Yeah, yeah.
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Okay, so yeah, maybe but I'm just not gonna finish that statement.
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You're right though.
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But um so in life though.
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In life, though, yeah.
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That's funny enough, you might not get it.
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Yeah, you can get I feel like a good charming good charming something will get you through a lot of a lot of things, I feel like.
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But but okay, well, I am I feel like I always uh feel way more uncomfortable, not like where I can't do the show, but like when it's a room full of people I know.
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Like I love going up there and performing in front of because part of me, part of the experience of the comedian is like you're molding like their whole like your persona is everything you've created, right?
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So everything from the start to the show to the end of the show, even before you get on stage, like you were putting pieces in place for them to have this experience with this character you've created, but then like if they know me already, it's so so I had a I did a show years ago, uh, and like all these girls, like all I should say, all these women from work showed up, and like that was the audience.
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And not a ton of them, but like they were that was the that was the audience.
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And then at the time, I the most of my jokes that I would do at book shows were all about like how I'm single and you know ways women have shot me down and stuff like that.
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And this entire front row, just instead of laughing, which is like aw.
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Oh, because they knew you two once you're a real person, yeah.
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They called it.
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I was like, I don't like that versus strangers who are like hilarious.
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Yeah, like that's hysterical.
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He's giving us that's funny, yeah.
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And I like I like being around people that just don't care.
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Like, just let them well, that's why you're so comfortable with them in a room full of comedians, then yes, there we go.
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I love it.
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They do not care about you.
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No, and uh so I don't um when we were talking about open mics earlier.
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Uh, one of the things that I I I want people when they go to open mics to realize is like you put on most of the pressure on yourself there because they you're right, they don't care.
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No, so you people that are so afraid of bombing or like what people think.
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Think I promise you they don't like comedians like half listen at open mics.
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Most of your open mics are gonna have mostly comedians.
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And I know myself, like I am kind of hearing, like I'm kind of listening.
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Like if something's funny to me, I'll laugh at it.
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But like I'm also thinking about my own routine.
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Yeah.
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Um so you're not laughing out loud.
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Like you're you're maybe chuckling a little bit because you're thinking, you're deep in thought on your own stuff.
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Or like we're kind of desensitized to it.
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Like we aren't comedians don't be I used to I used to be someone that laughed in public.
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Like I used to I used to have a good laugh.
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Oh yeah.
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And now I'm just like, I can appreciate the humor, but like, and I'll enjoy it and I'll come up to you like that.
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But you'd probably think, like, we'll tell your face, you know.
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You you become a British person in an audience at that point.
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Then you're just like, mm-hmm, yeah, it was good, you know.
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I did have an awkward moment when uh I when I was in LA once and I I I saw I went, I knew I had to go see a show at the comedy store, so I went and I saw Anthony Jesselnik, and they of course they cram you in just with complete strangers, and so he had a real I don't I mean he had a lot of really good jokes.
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He had like one really good joke in particular that I turned to strangers and say, that was really good.
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Well, the natural reaction would be to laugh.
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Yeah, and it was this like elderly couple, and I I think they think about that all like anytime.
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Like, remember that weird guy that just turned and told us that was good.
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That was really good.
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Yeah, it was I mean it was good.
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I was appreciating the art, appreciating it as an academic and an artist and not as a human being, unfortunately.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah.
00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:32.960
So my next question for you is I would love to know in your seven years of comedy what your like best experience is.
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And then also I'd love to hear like if they have any like terrible worst experience ever.
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I'm really lucky that I I mean I've heard a lot of comedians' horrible stories.
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I'll have to think about that one because I I haven't had any that are quite that bad.
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But being a lady, I don't put myself in the same kinds of situations.
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Oh, I did just think of one.
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Perfect.
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I will not say where it was, okay, obviously.
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That's fair.
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Uh but I'll go with the And I won't either because odds are I'm like, oh, I remember.
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You're gonna know exactly where it is.
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And we're not gonna, we're not gonna let anybody else.
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No, we won't know.
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Uh, but I my best one, um I mean I there I've had so many good ones.
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I hate to even say my best, but I really loved, I got to host for a bunch of comedians doing specials for K-Love um at Third Coast, which is where I started comedy.
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Um, and just everybody on the and being a filmmaker as well, I was like, what cameras are you using?
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I got to, it was just such a lovely group of people.
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The comedians were hilarious, the audience was so hot.
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It was so, so, so much fun.
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And then to get to see those um, those specials later on.
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Yeah, and I got to use some of my TV skills because I grew up um when I was in college, I interned at a lot of like TV shows.
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Um, and so you know, they have people that warm up the crowds, and uh it was fun to like have them because like, well, we need to get some extra laughs.
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And I was like, Oh, don't worry about it.
00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:01.519
I worked at SNL, I will do exactly what those guys used to do, and we'll get I'll get you some laughs, I'll get you some groans.
00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:02.000
Yeah.
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:03.599
Um, so I felt that's fun.
00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:06.079
So I felt like I was good at it, yeah, which was nice.
00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:06.640
That was my favorite.
00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:08.319
You were a good fit for the host for a room.
00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:09.039
Yes, yes.
00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:16.559
And that is I that is when you have, and I'm like you said, you probably have multiple of these, like there's just something special about like a really good show.
00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:20.720
Like a really good because every comedy show is kind of like a unique experience.
00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:25.119
At the end of the show, it's like, well, that that exact thing is never gonna happen again.
00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:32.960
Like, cause it because it's this people that are involved, the comedians, that yeah, you know, how we're all feeling during the day that will dictate, you know, how we take this show.
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:39.119
And so when you have those really good ones, it's a really special thing because you're like, oh my gosh, this was this was a really cool experience.
00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:40.240
I'm glad I got to enjoy it.
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:46.319
And then like the longer you do comedy, the more you're like, oh, I get to have a lot of really cool, unique experiences frequently.
00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.000
So that's that's another way to do it.
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:49.359
And it is fun and it keeps you coming back.
00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:49.599
Yeah.
00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:50.400
It is a hundred.
00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:54.799
Those really good shows, you're just like, Oh, okay, well, every show could be that show.
00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:55.200
Right.
00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:56.880
And they really can be, you know.
00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:03.359
So and that that keeps you going in between when you're yeah, you know, when you show up somewhere and there's like two people in the audience or whatever, you know.
00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:09.039
You know what though, I was uh I'm appreciative of the fact that I feel like I can say this about both of us.
00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:18.160
Um we know how to entertain those little shows with two people, like uh, because we we had a show like that uh l last week, or I said last week, like two days.
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:20.160
A couple days ago a couple days ago, yeah.
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:22.640
Um, and we all had fun, yeah.
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:23.359
We all had a good time.
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:33.920
It was every comedian there, and that's nice because I know you've been on these shows too, where you show up and there's like two to four people, or maybe even five people, which is like they paid to be here, like they showed up, like let's be nice.
00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:36.640
And sometimes comedians will be mean, right?
00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:38.400
They'll take it out on that showed up, yeah.
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:40.160
They'll take it out on them that other people didn't show up.
00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:42.160
I'm like, those are your friends, they did the right thing.
00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:43.440
They came, you know.
00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:50.480
So and I've I I think part of it is because you you've been on a lot of the shows I've produced, and a lot of those shows have had been uh little turnouts.
00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:59.359
Uh and that happens to every person, but it like it yeah, but I feel like it gives us trains us to handle so whether you have two people or 20 people or 200 people, you know how to entertain them.
00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:00.319
So yeah, for sure.
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.839
Um but it's we're no one will ever be like, I actually prefer the two-person show.
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:08.079
We don't, but like when you have just those two people, they're ready to laugh, you know.
00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:15.759
They are, they are, and it and it's a nice opportunity to like try some things out and like talk to the audience a little bit more because they they they are gonna be your friends.
00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.480
There's only two of them.
00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:21.039
You might as well talk to them and find out why they came and who they are, and and they have a great time.
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:22.559
Yeah, and invite them to the next show.
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.680
It comes always come back to when they're bring two friends.
00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:26.160
Yeah, absolutely.
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.359
But you both bring two friends.
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:33.279
I did, and I I love it as a producer when you see because this happened at my last show at Sweetwater's.
00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:38.240
Uh, we just had a handful of people come, uh, and you're always a little nervous, you're like, Well, yeah, we'll see.
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:44.960
Yeah, as a producer, you're kind of looking at it and you're like, Well, I don't, you know, it's almost more it's more awkward as a producer than as a comedian.
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:51.440
Because as a comedian, you're like, look, I'm here to perform no matter what, but as a producer, you're I we've talked about this, but it's like you almost want to apologize to the comedians.
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:51.920
I'm sorry.
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:54.319
I'm sorry, I really did try to get people here.
00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:57.359
But and there's no rhyme or reason to because I know both of us too.
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:06.960
We've we've put money on ads or not put money on ads, and it it doesn't seem there's no secret formula, it doesn't seem to ever always work if you do this one thing or that thing.
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.160
You're constantly having to try to figure it out, and it's always different.
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:10.480
Yeah.
00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:15.519
This market versus you know, that coffee shop versus and it's exhausting.
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.400
I and I I heard someone tell me that one time.
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.160
Uh, I was really impressed with how they run their like comedy scene uh in Panama City.
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:26.240
And I was like, can you tell me everything that you do to make this successful?
00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:33.119
Because like I'm trying to do something up here, and I'm and and and I I used to think it was like a rude answer, but now I'm realizing there's a lot of truth to it.
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:37.039
He's like, I it's it's a Nashville's a different market than Panama City.
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:39.440
There's no there what I do here might not work there.
00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:45.359
And I was like, that's exactly what you'd tell someone if you don't want to get like, but in Einstein, I'm like, that's very true, you know.
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:47.839
But uh the guy in Panama City is a super nice guy.
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:49.359
So yeah, absolutely, yeah.
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:50.400
Gemma Jason.
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:52.319
Yes, yeah, Jason Jason Eddins wonderful.
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:53.200
Oh, he does.
00:28:53.519 --> 00:29:03.519
He has created such a wonderful environment down there, and it has, you know, he's got kind of a span of areas um across the panhandle and in into more of the center of Florida.
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:10.240
And I mean, what a lovely human being, and also just great promoter, great shows, great comedian.
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:12.240
Like, I I couldn't say enough nice things about Jason.
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:17.279
I remember one of the last times I was there, I was there for two shows, like on a Friday or Saturday or whatever.
00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:24.240
And on the Friday, he was like telling me he was like the Friday was like a big turnout, and he's like, Well, just once you know, Saturday women sold a ton of tickets, so it might be one of those shows.
00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:28.640
But um, when I by the time I got there on Saturday, it was like tons of people.
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:33.839
Yeah, I do feel like he when he says it's gonna be a small show, you're like, You don't know what small shows are.
00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:34.880
That's true, that's true.
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:39.119
Maybe it's like like I can take you to come up, come do this show with me.
00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:40.559
We'll show you yeah.
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:43.039
But but then I asked him, I was like, Well, what did you do?
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:44.960
And of course, I'm still asking the same questions like it.
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:52.640
And he like he he's like, I was uh I was out all afternoon handing out flyers, telling all the people, just like going up and down the beach.
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:53.920
I was like, that's hustle.
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:55.119
Yeah, yeah, man.
00:29:55.680 --> 00:30:02.960
But um I was uh but because then I want to get to the uh the the the the the alternate of that question, the bad experience.
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:20.319
But one of the things I was gonna say is I love it as a producer when you see when you are in those shows with you know five to ten people in the audience, and then each comedian can perform to those five to ten people, and then by the time I at the end of the show, everyone's like that was a good show, and it does and it doesn't matter that not a ton of people came to it.
00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:27.920
And I I'm learning to really appreciate that because that is that's the mark of a good comedian is if you can take your act and adopt it to whoever's there.
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:28.640
100%.
00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:30.799
Yeah, that is the mark of a good comedian, yeah.
00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:33.680
So and that's how you get fans, you know.
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:39.279
I to a certain degree, like all the shows I've done where there's been like you know, hundreds of people there.
00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:41.440
First of all, they're usually not there for me.
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:49.759
You know, they're there for the headliner, and I would love to be in that position one day, but I have not been the headliner for hundreds of people before.
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.480
Um and and so they just wait till you just need your Walmart special out for a little bit.
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:57.599
As soon as my Walmart special comes out, my life is gonna change.
00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:00.319
Uh but but you know, they're there for somebody else.
00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:17.200
And it's not that, you know, I if I I know I enjoy making them laugh, and um, and those shows are fun too because they are there to see somebody very intently, and they're often easier audiences, which is interesting than you know, when you show up to a free show or a five-dollar show, and there's six comedians on the bill, and they're basically sitting there like, all right, we'll see.
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:20.480
Yeah, you know, yeah, um, but yeah, but I love those.
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:30.400
But then when you're in that intimate show, they're so in it, and I've gotten more followers off of those intimate shows, you know, one-on-one talking to somebody on it than I have in those hundreds.
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:39.680
And it is it's fun with like with the shows that we do with the clean comedy collective here, and over the years having done the same shows, some of those two or three people that come to like you see art seeing them all the time.
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:45.839
And then, and then it does, they they feel you know, there's something, but they they feel more than fans.
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:53.359
I I wouldn't go, they're not in the top ten friends, but like they but like they do, like they come in, like the there's folks that come into the sweetwaters, and I'll be like, How's your last month?
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:54.799
And I'll be able to ask targeted questions.
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:57.279
And then I'm like and it makes them feel special too.
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:59.920
So yeah, and then someone one of the comedians like, how do you know that person?
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:01.440
It's like, not really.
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:01.920
Yeah.
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:05.599
But it does help.
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:06.079
It does help.
00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.519
I know there's a comedian out of Georgia, Rich Brock, that we both know.
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:11.119
Man, he's so good at that.
00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:12.079
He will go in.
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:22.720
I mean, he a former pastor as well, so he's got that real pastor energy, but he will go in and talk to everybody before the show and after the show, and it makes a di like he has a very loyal fan base.
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:24.240
Yeah, and his people absolutely love him.
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:25.039
Yeah, that's very true.
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:35.359
And it's so funny because doing him doing that works so well for him and his energy and his comedy character that he puts on and all that stuff.
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.519
Like, um, I love that for him.
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:45.359
I don't know if I'll ever be like uh like because I when I first started, I especially since I was working at church at the time, I was like, Oh, I'll just bring in like church welcome or energy.
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:48.079
Yeah, and like other comedians were like, What are you doing?
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:52.400
Like, that's you're not like when you get on stage, they've already made up their minds about you.
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:59.759
It's like you, you know, and so but but but for Rich's character and and his persona in general, like that helps them.
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.079
Yeah, so I I don't mind just like sitting in a green room until I come out.
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:05.039
Yeah, no, I don't mind.
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.599
And then becoming everyone's best friend, just because I'm more shy.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.640
Yeah, and then after, you know, it's you I think it is nice, you gotta thank people for coming.
00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.200
And you know, I so I do like that part of it.
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:15.759
Yeah.
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:18.400
Okay, so that was a great comedy experience.
00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:19.759
You've had a lot of great comedy experiences.
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:27.359
Has has a and in addition to this, uh uh, we can add to this question like some challenges that uh as a comedian you have to overcome.
00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:30.640
But like I would love to hear if you had like one like rough experience.
00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.519
Because everyone looks at you like she has nothing but perfection.
00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:37.599
She just she has her Walmart special out, she's dropping another one in December.
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.359
Like, life is just so easy for her.
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:41.759
She performs for tens of people every week.
00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:43.519
No, yeah.
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:51.039
No, and I I mean, and considering it's not really that bad, it was more like my experiences in the green room that were really bad.
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.960
As the only female on the bill, which happens all the time, that doesn't make me uncomfortable.
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:59.200
I've grew up with brothers and cousins, and uh, you know, it doesn't make me uncomfortable at all.
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:04.640
But um, one of the comedians comes back and I I stand up to say, Hey, how you doing?
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:10.639
And he starts laughing and says, Oh man, I did not expect you to be that short.
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.880
I was like, Okay.
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.199
That's what a great first impression.
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.079
I can take a joke as well as the next person.
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:19.840
I just let that roll off, you know.
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:26.800
And then uh somebody else comes back and uh just starts telling and they they all know I'm clean, right?
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:35.360
And just starts telling the dirtiest, most horrible story that any female would feel like I can't even tell you what he said.
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:37.760
Yeah, go ahead and just let our people know what it is.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.639
You will get flagged so quickly.
00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:46.239
Uh and just and then one of the other uh comedians says, Hey, dude, she's a Christian.
00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:50.800
He look he goes, uh, it's not like she never heard it before, and just keeps going.
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:57.280
And I I you know, I because the club owner is such a good person, I still felt safe.
00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:59.280
Right if I hadn't been so it could have been a lot of things.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.480
If that was like your only experience with that.
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:03.280
Oh my gosh.
00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:08.239
And and it wasn't my first time there and everything, but like that was that was rough.
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:18.639
That is interesting in that, like as Christians, as people that kind of do prefer a little bit more just clean lifestyle for lack of I mean, even saying that sounds judgmental.
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:27.760
It's like, but like there's a balance in stand-up when we're where like sometimes it's just like whatever.
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:29.039
I know that they're gonna say it.
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.519
If I go to an open mic, I know there's gonna be things with it.
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:34.719
But then like there is a point where like I don't need to be around this, right?
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.719
Like so Yeah, I mean there's some negativity.
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:39.920
I I would say there was I mean and I'm sure this happens to you as well.
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.480
When you'll you'll be in a green room and and comedians are, you know, we're creatures of the night.
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:45.840
Yeah, true.
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:49.519
Not me personally, but you know, most of us are creatures of the mid-afternoon.
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:51.599
I'm a creature of the mid-afternoon, yeah.
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:52.960
I love a six p.m.
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:53.440
show.
00:35:53.760 --> 00:36:15.760
But um and and you know, a lot of people have uh aren't Christian and have been hurt by the church, and I and I do have sympathy for that, but just really, really harbor resentment in their hearts for and will resent, you know, us for just because we choose not to just because we choose to be clean and make assumptions about us being judgmental and all those.
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:24.480
I mean, I've you know, I've definitely been in green rooms where people are really, really bashing and uh and and even directly to me sometimes, and you just have to go.
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:27.920
I mean, yeah, it's uh look, I know it's not about me, you know?
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:28.239
Yeah.
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:34.719
So well, and it's it's just it's it's to me, it's not unlike when someone will like just bash a genre of music.
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.119
Um totally and and like it's okay.
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.159
Like we're like like their whole I mean that people have podcasts where they talk about their opinions on everything.
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:47.199
Like it's this, um, but like it's like at the end of the day, it's like, well, you realize humor is subjective, right?
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:50.159
There is no right answer with any of this.
00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:50.639
Right.
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:51.360
Yeah.
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.960
And I yeah, I think it's fine what you're doing, and yeah, it should be fine.
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:56.800
I'm I'm more of a live and let live person.
00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:57.360
Right.
00:36:57.519 --> 00:37:01.760
I am I feel like I'm more like that now than when I was like in my early twenties.
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:03.679
Like I was like, I mean, I'm right.
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:04.320
Yeah.
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:06.559
Like we're all right in early 20s.
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:12.400
Yeah, yes, I f I think that from about 16 to 25, we are you have it all figured it out.
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:12.719
Yeah.
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.840
And then at about 26, you're like, I don't know nothing.
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:16.159
Yep.
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:19.199
And that continues well into your 40s.
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:24.719
So I now that I think of it, I I think my I don't know nothing happened at 24.
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:25.280
Okay.
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:30.239
And that it was a big existential crisis, and that's what led me to go into stand-up comedy.
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:32.480
So I don't sound perfect, honestly.
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:34.320
Yeah, I don't know how that, yeah.
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.679
I was just like, I I I don't know anything about what's around me.
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.800
Let me go try something completely different and then open my comedy.
00:37:41.039 --> 00:37:42.639
I mean, that's kind of how it happened for me too.
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:44.880
I was like, I don't really have a life anymore.
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:49.119
I'm I had just gotten divorced, you know, and uh just like, oh my life is in shambles.
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:50.960
Um, I got nothing to lose.
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:53.840
Why don't I try this thing that I've always wanted to try?
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.280
Uh and I'm so glad that I did.
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:55.679
Yeah.
00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:56.000
Yeah.
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:56.639
It's cool.
00:37:56.800 --> 00:38:03.760
And you it's funny because you in addition to learning the skill of comedy, I feel like what we do as comedians helps you grow as a person.
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:08.880
Whether it's yeah, you learn how to express yourself, you learn parts of yourself, but I feel like you also learn other people.
00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:11.119
It just you're in such a different end.
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:12.480
So that's helped me out a lot.
00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:17.280
So have you, speaking of other people, have you figured out like your target audience yet?
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.320
Like when you think of like people that should come see you.
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.079
That's a t I feel like that's a tough question.
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.920
I hate when people ask me, like, what's your target audience?
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:24.719
And so in return.
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:26.400
Nobody wants to say everyone.
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.280
Yeah, well, it's not.
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:28.639
And it's not, yeah.
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:34.880
I love uh I would, you know, yeah, I don't think the young, you know, 20s, because I talk about having kids, yeah.
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:56.639
Uh, you know, being a parent and um, you know, jobs and like kind of that kind of straight laced, being married, yeah, you know, um, so probably 30s and up, 30s, which is still kind of big, but um still that, but I mean it's big, but it's I mean that makes sense because 30 and up is a different like stage of life than 20 and below.
00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:57.599
That's exactly right.
00:38:57.679 --> 00:38:59.440
It's not really the age, it's the stage of life here.
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:03.519
It's not that you know, there are definitely 25-year-olds that have kids, you know, multiple kids and whatever.
00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:10.320
And and I even got I got a good laugh out of like a what is she a 17-year-old the other day when I was making fun of teenagers, and that made me feel good.
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.679
I was like, oh, she liked that one.
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:12.400
That's that's good, yeah.
00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.519
That's gotta be a keeper.
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:18.159
Yeah, when when the group you're making fun of laughs at it, you're like, that's that's a good joke.
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:18.880
I did it, yeah.
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.079
When they're not laughing and look at you staring sometimes, you're like, that's still a good joke.
00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.639
They Yeah, but they just they need they need they need to hear this.
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:25.840
Yeah, absolutely.
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:28.079
You can read anything you want into it, which is nice.
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:28.559
Right.
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:30.320
And a lot of comedians do.
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:39.119
But you want, you want to be able to get to a point where you can hit, you know, those jokes can hit even if you're looking at the person that you're kind of describing.
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:45.440
I like the to me, the skill of comedy is being able to take your act or parts of your act and do it in different rooms, right?
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:46.320
In different kinds of rooms.
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:52.639
So, like, even though this is the group that I really think I'm best for, I would, I would like to be able to work all the rooms.
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:52.960
Yeah.
00:39:53.119 --> 00:40:01.679
Um, that being said, I do know that I I'm I've said this before in this podcast, like I don't do well with the extremes, the extreme dirty or the extreme clean.
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:02.079
Yeah.
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:07.039
Uh those two any it feels like everything in between I can make work.
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:07.519
Yeah.
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:17.360
But like when I'm on the either I I because I I can think of being in a really, really, really conservative, clean like church show, and then them just looking at me like, why would you say that out loud?
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:17.679
You know?
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:25.199
And then I can then I I re I I have scarred memories of doing like a really, really crass uh dirty show at Raleigh, uh die bar and Raleigh.
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:32.480
And they were it was so funny because they were the nicest audience ever, but nothing I had was and they were just so friendly and would like listen.
00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.360
Yeah, just not Yeah, and I I yeah, I don't do well on a super, super dirty show either.
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:43.679
But a normal, you know, normal show, it's like you have to learn how to you have to learn how to work clubs, you have to learn how to work coffee shops.
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.960
Those two audiences are super different, super different.
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:47.599
Yeah.
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:55.119
And and if you want to work, um, you know, like Mark Norman, he he started his career with Seinfeld, he had to kind of tone it back for Seinfeld.
00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:59.360
So it's it's not about I think a lot of people think, oh, you're censoring yourself.
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:03.840
Well, I'm not because I'm just not you know, sh do am I perfect?
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.360
Do I not have you know dirty thoughts or do I not, you know, say a dirty word here and there?
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:08.239
Sure, I do.
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:16.559
But generally that's not you know my vibe, or at least it's not how I, you know, am most of the time in my real life.
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:17.039
Yeah.
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:28.719
Um, but somebody like Mark Norman, you know, can appreciate that like yeah, this is this is my style of comedy and this is where I feel most comfortable, but you have to be ready for those opportunities when they present themselves.
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:34.480
Yeah, and I don't I I think good comedians, like you said, should be ready for those opportunities.
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:36.559
I also think it's a a perspective shift.
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.239
Like it's not all about me.
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:40.880
Like, like these comedians are like, I shouldn't have to not say this.
00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:44.400
It's like, yeah, but no one came, no one paid you to come entertain yourself.
00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:46.480
You were paid to make these people laugh.
00:41:46.800 --> 00:41:51.440
I'm entertaining these people and these people came for a clean show or this or that or whatever.
00:41:51.519 --> 00:41:52.480
Ooh, sorry, I hit the mic.
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.280
It's okay.
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:55.119
Nice little boom that you can cut out later.
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:55.840
Yeah, there we go.
00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:56.719
Edited podcast.
00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:58.880
Okay, but you know, the Patreon people get to hear that boom.
00:41:59.119 --> 00:41:59.920
They get to hear all of it.
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:00.480
Oh, yeah.
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:07.039
So um, no, but I because I do when people are like, well, you know, I'm an artist, so I should be able to say whatever I want.
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.159
It's like, yeah, but they're paying you to uh do a clean show or something like that.
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:19.360
So and it's not yeah, yeah, you are an artist and and you should be uh you should be true to your authentic self and your authentic voice, and that ultimately is what is what's gonna get you fans.
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:24.159
Um that's just proven true, you know, time and time again, especially nowadays.
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.559
But being able to, you know, make a little bit of a shift, I think.
00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:31.360
Um it's uh it's just a different muscle.
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:33.039
It's like exercising a different muscle.
00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:33.440
Yeah.
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:34.480
So I agree.
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:35.440
I think it's worthwhile.
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:42.079
Now, do you have any um well I I wonder if and you can answer this and then change your mind years from now.
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:48.559
Like you don't that we're not setting it soon right now, but in in the clean comedy chats podcast, if you say it, it has to happen.
00:42:48.880 --> 00:43:03.519
Um but um so you do I'm wondering what kind of goals you have set for yourself for comedy or entertainment in general for the future, and then like if there's any immediate things you like, immediate accomplishments or credits you'd like to have, and then like just in general, like what's your end game for comedy?
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:06.239
Again, if you change your mind next year, too bad.
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:07.039
You said it here.
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:07.519
Yeah.
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:08.480
I don't know.
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:12.559
I don't uh I would because I have kids, right?
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.119
So I I can't I can't travel a ton yet.
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:15.360
Yeah.
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:17.440
That being said, my kids are getting older.
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:29.679
Um, so I like the idea of like a Leanne Morgan who was able to be a good mom and do that thing and then and then kind of go and and do comedy kind of in a bigger um in a bigger sense later on.
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:33.039
I haven't done a festival yet.
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:33.760
Oh yeah.
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.360
So I do want to do that.
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:39.039
I want to try to figure out where I would be a good fit and and do that.
00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.199
Um you know, I work full time, you work full time, so you you do kind of have to pick.
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:46.400
Yeah, you have to you have to pick when to use that PTO, you know.
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:48.400
Yeah, which is which is a real thing.
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:48.800
Yeah.
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:53.519
Um but and I, you know, I've got that special coming out, which was one of my goals.
00:43:53.679 --> 00:43:56.480
And I would love to I would love to do a special.
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:58.480
Like I'm I'm hoping K Love does more.
00:43:58.559 --> 00:43:59.840
I would love to do something with K Love.
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.519
Love or um or I mean Nate Bargatsy or uh Dry Bar.
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:07.840
I mean, that would be that would be amazing.
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:08.239
Yeah.
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:14.559
And cool part is it's like you're I this is what I like about as you continue to do comedy, like you're around all that stuff.
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:17.840
What might have seven years ago might have been like, oh, that'd be cool.
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:22.960
I had no idea how I even, you know, but now like but now you can see how one can get from point A to point B.
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:28.880
Yeah, and I'm not I'm not any necessarily I'm not well I'm even closer, but I'm not close to getting any of those things necessarily.
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:36.000
But yeah, I know people at all of those places, and I have friends that have done all of those things, like close, so it's not it's not that far off.
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:38.880
Yeah, it's not like an impossible goal, you know.
00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:39.199
No.
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:40.079
So I love that.
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:41.199
So cool.
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:46.320
And then another question I have, and then we're gonna get to asking um questions from the audience.
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:49.679
Um, we'll do uh ask a comedian here in a second.
00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:56.000
But the last question I have for you, just and on my end, is uh because you've been with like the clean comedy collective since like season two.
00:44:56.079 --> 00:45:05.440
Like you're yeah, you're you're like pretty, like you're pretty like you've been pretty here dialed in from when it was just like a few of us doing shows at a juice bar, you know?
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:11.920
Um so like you've so you've seen a lot of different clean comedy collective related things and accomplishments and like that.
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:19.280
So like I'm just wondering, like if if what I I I don't I I hope this question doesn't sound arrogant because it's not.
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:29.039
Um, but like I'm wondering what like your favorite thing about what we do as a clean comedy collective is, or like if you're telling if you're telling someone like a sales pitcher, like why what we do is important, like I'd love to know.
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:49.599
Like it's probably what a lot of people say, but my favorite thing is that you like we I really believe we have created a space, and you in particular and Sean have since before me, have created a space where people can develop themselves as clean comedians uh so that they can go out and get other opportunities as well.
00:45:49.840 --> 00:46:00.880
Like I I'm proud of the shows that we do, they're wonderful, but I'm more proud that we have a space and and we have shows where people can really, really hone the craft.
00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:01.119
Right.
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:07.920
People that maybe wouldn't maybe they're not ready for zanies or you know, even comedian discovery, shout out to them, love them.
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:19.599
Um, but I think we do a great job of helping other helping comics to reach those goals, and we create a very you know, friendly environment, which is nice.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:21.119
Um I agree.
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:22.079
I like that too.
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:33.119
And I and I do see that where like someone is gonna well if they do when they do finally get to be on a Natlin Monday show, they are better off because they've done our shows.
00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:34.159
Absolutely, right?
00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:34.960
And so that's cool.
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:40.480
And and and same with like the I mean, I know I know Comedian Discovery, they they work with a lot of the same people.
00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:40.880
Yeah.
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:44.239
He he's also he gives a lot of people shots too, and I love that.
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:50.239
I mean, we're in such a unique market, you know, here in Nashville where there's so much comedy, probably too much comedy.
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.119
For how many venues, and so we have so many pop-up shows.
00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:57.760
Um but I I don't know, I think that's great.
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:08.800
And and we're and because of that, we we know so many, you know, comedians that like people outside of Nashville are like, oh, those are really big, you know, people into us, it's like, yeah, they're yeah, they're great.
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:10.480
It's but it's just Tom or whatever, you know what I mean?
00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:11.440
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:12.960
I feel that which is fun.
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.760
But uh yeah, Nash but Nashville's a really unique.
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:22.159
I have you have you had this experience too where you when you go outside of Nashville, it's so much easier to make people laugh.
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:22.800
Yes.
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:24.000
Everybody says this.
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:25.519
Yes, I I have a theory.
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:26.800
Um, tell me the theory.
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:35.360
And this uh this is there's no science behind this, this is just Drew's theory, but it's it's like a decade-old theory, it's well thought on my end, so it's probably true.
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:40.079
Um, Nashville was originally you know, for music audiences, true.
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:45.119
Um, and we did have kind of build up this culture of like music city, like coming here and listening to good music.
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:54.719
Uh and what my musician friends have said is that as a result, their audiences are a little bit more snooty, a little bit more kind of I picture like cross your arms and impress me kind of style, right?
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:55.360
Yeah, sure.
00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:04.320
Um, and then then comedy came around, and I think we inherited that odd that vibe that with like people come to shows and they do kind of want to be impressed.
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:19.519
They do kind of like, well, I showed up here, now it's your turn to um, and then I think you I think also it being someone who's been around here my entire life, um on an entertainment perspective, one of the biggest fears for any entertainer is like, I don't want to be a sellout.
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:24.320
I don't want to be, you know, someone like you know that you know isn't valued as a performer.
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:35.760
Um, and as a result, the reason it's sometimes harder as a comedian here in Nashville in the comedy scene is because like we have such a care for each other that like we don't want any of us to be sellouts.
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:40.079
Um so what I've seen to be true is if you stink, they'll let you know.
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:40.800
They will.
00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:43.840
But even if you're good, they don't want it to go to your head.
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:44.639
It's so true.
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:51.119
So they'll kind of still feel so like you never feel so there is kind of like this tough grit in Nashville.
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:52.960
And I know when you think Nashville, you don't think tough grit.
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:53.519
You don't, yeah.
00:48:53.679 --> 00:49:03.199
But like as far as the entertainment scene, as far as the comedy scene, um, so as a result, it does feel harder to perform, it feels harder to get uh like accepted into the community.
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:12.320
Yeah um, but but when you go and you travel elsewhere, and that's what I always encourage Nashville comedians, like you we have a cool radius of different places we can go to outside of Nashville.
00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:15.599
It does kind of feel like you're taking the weights off, and it's a lot easier.
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:18.000
That's a great way to describe it because that is how it feels.
00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:23.760
It feels like you can just be more free and yeah, you immediately you get in that room and you're like, oh man, this is so much easier.
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:24.159
Yeah.
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:30.639
So you know, me starting off here when I was like 24, I was like, this is just the most terrible, negative, hardest place.
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:31.840
These people are so mean.
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:32.159
Yeah.
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:35.679
And like now, 15 years later, I can kind of appreciate it.
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.920
I think I mean I do I can point to some instances where like, okay, that was maybe a little bit mean.
00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:46.239
Maybe I did see that, but like now I'm like, no, like I needed to toughen up a little bit, or I needed to get over myself a little bit.
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:49.840
And that's it is really good experience for the outside world because you do.
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.159
I mean, it does Nashville, I think, does make you tougher.
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:57.920
I can't imagine though, I have never I haven't performed in Chicago or New York, and I do wonder how it would feel.
00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:03.440
And also, like, I feel like the problem is is anytime you go anywhere, you will be a t visiting comic.
00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:03.840
Yeah.
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:21.519
So unless you like move there, right stay there for months, you because anytime you visit, even like because I have performed in uh like Chicago, I haven't performed New York City yet a perform in New York, but anytime you go visit places, like it's you're just you're just got it's like a little vacation mode, like like and people respect you kids like you showed up from somewhere else.
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:21.760
Yeah.
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:26.159
And so you don't get the full like, well, you're a Chicago comic now.
00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:27.440
Start acting like it, you know.
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:27.679
Yeah.
00:50:28.079 --> 00:50:34.000
But um, but I do I don't know, because cause like every what I do know is every scene will tell you ours is the hardest scene.
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:34.960
So it's true.
00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:35.760
Um I don't I don't know.
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:38.639
I think it's I mean maybe it's a city versus suburbs thing.
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:39.920
Maybe that's what it is.
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.800
Because we are in, I mean, Nashville is a properly big city now.
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:46.079
Yeah, it hasn't always been, but it is a properly big city.
00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:50.719
Um, but I think there's probably something to the music thing because people are used to being able to just walk in any.
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:55.599
I mean, shoot, our churches have the most amazing, you know, musicians.
00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:55.920
Yep.
00:50:56.239 --> 00:51:00.960
Um, so yeah, I mean you're literally on every street corner, you're gonna get somebody writing the most amazing song you've ever seen.
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:09.840
So yeah, I did not realize that about churches until I was working at churches outside of Nashville because I was like, yeah, I uh what's wrong with these music ministries?
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:15.599
They're not nearly as like well, it's like, oh, they don't have professional studio musicians who are volunteering on Sundays.
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:17.119
That's what's but yeah.
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:18.320
That's what's wrong with them.
00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:19.440
That's what's wrong with them.
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:20.880
That's and that's okay.
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:26.239
So yeah, but um well, now we're gonna do the section of the podcast called Ask a Comedian.
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:31.440
Um and just a reminder for anyone who's listening, by the way, thank you for if you're still here, if you're listening.
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:32.480
Um, I always I don't know.
00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:33.360
I'm hung in.
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:39.920
I'm I I'm sure pl I know for a fact, objectively, plenty of people stay and listen to the whole episode because they tell me about it later.
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:42.000
You guys are very nice with your encouragement and stuff like that.
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:54.400
But in my brain, whenever I'm recording one of these episodes, I just I'm visualizing people just like changing the channel, or they got to their destination and they're like, Well, I don't so like that's why I'm always like when I get to this part, I just thanks, thanks for being here.
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:59.119
Thanks for maybe some people are right now driving from Murfreesboro to Nashville, and that means they have the time.
00:51:59.360 --> 00:51:59.920
They have the time.
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.199
This is the perfect amount of time.
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:11.119
But uh, so the way this works is um you all are able to send us in questions to ask comedians, and it's literally any question you want, it can be comedy related or it can be not comedy related.
00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:17.280
Um, about once a month, I put things out on my social media where I just ask people to send in questions.
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:30.320
Um, if you have a question and you you don't want to wait till that once a month, you're more than welcome to reach out to the Clean Comedy Collective on Instagram, Drew Davis Comedy on Instagram, uh find me on any of the like Facebook or whatever, or just email me.
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.079
Some people have emailed me random questions.
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:36.960
I suppose if you want to just like knock on my door or slide down, if you figured out where I live, that would be weird.
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:39.119
But um maybe don't invite that into your life.
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:40.800
So yeah, don't do that.
00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:47.760
But anyway, so uh we have questions that have been submitted to you uh before by you before the podcast uh started.
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:52.320
Uh Bryn picked three random numbers and that dictated the three questions we're gonna ask her.
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:53.440
So it's exciting.
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:57.920
And I remember you gave us questions uh from low no high number to low number.
00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:59.039
So we'll start at the bottom.
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:03.440
Um, this was an interesting question because she straight up didn't ask a question.
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:06.239
She was like, present this statement to them and get them talking.
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:08.000
And I was like, well, that's a weird okay.
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:11.920
I was like, so we're gonna bend the rules because it was a good, it was a good state.
00:53:12.079 --> 00:53:13.199
I was like, okay, that's a good conversation.
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:14.239
Okay, I'm ready.
00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:14.719
Let's hear it.
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:15.920
But she was like, no questions.
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:17.840
So um, so this is her statement.
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.599
Crowd work is not comedy.
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:21.599
You haven't worked through a set.
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:25.119
Uh you you you need to know what works or what doesn't.
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:26.320
It's just lazy.
00:53:26.559 --> 00:53:27.920
Then she puts disgust.
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:29.360
Oh, yeah.
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:33.360
I I mean, I I do think it is comedy.
00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:34.320
I do.
00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:41.440
Uh I think in my case, I didn't even well, you know, when you're starting out doing a five-minute set, that's how everybody starts, right?
00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:43.440
I mean, you better have jokes.
00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:47.360
You better not be getting up there and doing crowd work because you're not good enough to do that yet.
00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:48.239
It won't go well.
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:49.199
It won't go like what you're doing.
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:51.440
It won't be comedy if you get up there and you don't.
00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:58.880
But if you um I mean, I don't think I don't think I started at all doing any crowd work until I had at least 10 minutes.
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:01.679
And even then you're just, I mean, you're just reacting, you know?
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:08.079
Can't really have a con if you have time to have a conversation in your 10 minute set as a new comedian.
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:09.519
Yeah, I um yeah, I don't know.
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:10.159
Yeah, yeah.
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:16.079
No, I do I I have seen people that are really good at like instigating crowd work and make it funny and stuff like that.
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:19.280
That that's not I'm definitely more at playoff of a reaction that happens.
00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:40.639
I I do not like um, but I do think something that's important to note about crowd work is when they respond, when they do the funny part of crowd work, they are still speaking in punchlines, they're still saying funny things and that and and and they they might have a gift to be able to say it kind of on the spot more, which you meet people in public all the time that the that's just the things that come out of their mouth, it's funny.
00:54:42.639 --> 00:54:46.000
And so um, I I I think it is is a different skill.
00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:46.639
It is.
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:57.679
It's like it's like um if if if we were relating comedy to music earlier, it's like a it's like a different kind of guitar, you know, like it's you still can play it on a show, but it's so I would I would say it is comedy.
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:00.719
Um, I would say it's totally okay if it's not your style of comedy.
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:01.119
Yeah.
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:07.039
I think I used to like crowd work, like as a consumer, as as I used to enjoy watching the comedian do it.
00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:11.679
Um, except for my one critique, I had this even before I did com uh before I was a comedian.
00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:21.519
Don't ever do crowd work when you're recording your special, because like that's funny for the people in the room, but like if I'm just listening to it while I'm dressed in most cases.
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.800
So um, but um obviously it's good for social media.
00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:25.519
Absolutely.
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:27.199
Probably why this debate has come up.
00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:27.920
Absolutely.
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:33.360
A lot of comics, all they do, all they sh have online are, you know, their crowd work.
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:38.559
And I think and I think that's usually probably for a good reason because they don't want to burn through all their jokes.
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:39.920
They want, you know, right.
00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:46.239
And I and the authenticity and spontaneity is so important on on social media, and that's kind of what crowd work is.
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:53.119
I think that I think that's why on social media the crowdwork clips tend to do better than the like than the actual joke joke.
00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:55.760
Because you you it's rehearsed and yeah, it's easy to do.
00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:59.119
When you're watching it, like when you're watching it while you're on the toilet, you're like, this is an impressive.
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:02.800
But when you're just watching it, you get to see something zany happen, you're like, all right, cool.
00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:04.159
But it is it, but it is a skill.
00:56:04.239 --> 00:56:05.440
Like you're saying it's a different skill.
00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:06.079
It is a skill.
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:09.920
Like I love watching our one of our local, you know, greats, Amber Audry.
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:10.320
Yeah.
00:56:10.559 --> 00:56:11.360
Oh my gosh.
00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:13.440
Like, I love watching her do crash.
00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:15.199
She she has that gift.
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:15.519
Yeah.
00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:16.159
You know.
00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:17.360
Um I agree.
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:30.000
I had her on um the Thurko show one time, and um yeah, and I remember I asked her, like, I always asked all the headliners, like, okay, like, can you give me an idea of your closing joke so I can kind of know when to get, you know, be ready to go back up there?
00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:38.320
And she well, I don't remember she told me, she told me the idea, and I am pretty sure she did basically 30 minutes of crowd work and then that one joke.
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:42.320
Like, yeah, she just went out there and just like playing with them for the whole time.
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:43.599
And like, that's impressive.
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:48.159
Like that's so people who are like, that's not real comedy, to that I would say, are people laughing?
00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:48.480
Yeah.
00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:50.480
Because if they're laughing, then we kind of have to call it.
00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:55.679
Well, and yeah, because sometimes you'll get a comedian who thinks, you know, or or the room just isn't ready for it.
00:56:55.760 --> 00:57:02.559
If you don't have jokes to rely on and you're in that situation, yeah, then it's then it's not comedy because it's not always comedy.
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:03.599
I guess that's what it is.
00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:04.159
That's true.
00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:10.559
So yeah, there's a lot of people are there's really bad crowd work as well as I mean, we talked about the really good, but there's really bad crowd work too.
00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:10.800
Yeah.
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:17.840
Um, and I guess what I was saying was um I used to like watching crowd work, but now I honestly feel like I've seen every single piece of crowdwork.
00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:19.280
Every iteration that there is.
00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:24.079
So help me if one more person asks, What's the secret to a good marriage while I'm in the room?
00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:25.840
I'm just gonna jump out a window.
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:26.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:30.559
Also, I forgot to say that comment came to us from Amber Thomas from Threads.
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:34.400
Um, and I didn't I didn't I didn't, yeah, thread threads it's good that you're on threads.
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:34.880
I am.
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:40.079
I uh rarely like I just I poke in to ask people for random questions and I poke right back out.
00:57:40.239 --> 00:57:44.639
Occasionally I'll write like a really uh a Facebook status that I'm really proud of that's short.
00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:45.920
I'm like, let's throw that one on threads.
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:46.480
Gotcha.
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:46.880
So yeah.
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:49.039
I haven't made it over there or on TikTok yet.
00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:52.480
Uh I I don't love either TikTok.
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:54.159
I like TikTok better than threads.
00:57:54.320 --> 00:58:00.239
Threads is like there's so many negative people on threads, but no one who commented on this post is negative.
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:01.440
Amber sounds lovely.
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:02.719
She's she is lovely.
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:07.760
Um okay, this next question uh come from Auntie Bobo, number one, also on Threads.
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:08.480
Oh, okay.
00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:15.039
Um, why do many open mic comics read from their phones uh the same jokes that they've been doing for three years?
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:18.239
Oh yeah, that's interesting.
00:58:18.480 --> 00:58:19.440
Uh it's okay.
00:58:19.599 --> 00:58:25.119
I mean, I guess at an open mic a lot of people do read from their phones, and it doesn't bother me because they're just trying stuff out.
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:39.760
Uh but yeah, I I have seen a lot of, or even like new material Monday, which that one, I mean, it's not it's not always supposed to be a hundred percent because you're still performing at a club for an audience and all of that.
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:48.880
Yeah, but um yeah, I would hope that if you've been doing it for three years that you had a little bit better of a handle.
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:55.119
That last, but that was a good like I would have just said, like, well, it's an open mic and we're all working it out.
00:58:55.199 --> 00:59:00.960
It's like going to the gym, we're all getting the reps, and we're but to to that last sentence was like for three years.
00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:01.840
It's like Yeah.
00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:06.320
Yeah, every now if you're changing it up, you know, this is probably what you're gonna say.
00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:13.599
Like, I know I've I've had jokes that I have been writing for two years, you know, and I've never quite gotten them right.
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:18.800
And so maybe I'll pull it back out every six months and try it very slightly differently.
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:25.360
Um so I would give grace on that because maybe you've just seen them, you know, one year apart and they had put some.
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:26.400
I do that all the time.
00:59:26.559 --> 00:59:27.360
I put stuff aside.
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:31.519
Yeah, or I'll think of something I write goes really well with this thing that's like eight years old.
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:32.800
Yeah, that's also true.
00:59:33.199 --> 00:59:34.000
You gotta try it out.
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:39.840
So sometimes like I'll even be, I won't do the whole bit of like just imagine I said this and now I do this joke and then I do this one.
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:40.559
Oh, yeah.
00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:43.599
Just to get just because it's like I'm not I have four minutes at this open mic.
00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:44.960
I can't do a whole 10-minute set.
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:45.280
Yeah.
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:48.960
But um Yeah, but I yeah, I would give grace in case it's something like that.
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:54.320
And sometimes uh what people have to realize also with open mics is you have any level of comedian there.
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:57.280
You have professional comedians, you have people working to get to professional.
00:59:57.440 --> 00:59:59.519
You also have people that are hobbyists.
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:00.800
This is yeah, they there.
01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:08.880
I I think of this guy uh who came to Spanky's Bar and Grill every Tuesday back when that was an open mic, uh, and his name, his stage name was Noah He didn't.
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:17.440
And uh Noah He didn't was an electrician, big old pot belly, gray hair, nice, just he did the same, he probably was the person she's talking about.
01:00:17.599 --> 01:00:24.079
Right he did the same five minutes ever and he always ended with this terrible Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation.
01:00:24.159 --> 01:00:30.800
Um also interestingly enough, he came in with like a different hot woman every every time we saw him.
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:31.519
So like I don't know.
01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:36.079
I'm I'm fascinated by his one, but like well, so he had to give his best five every time.
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:38.400
So maybe that's why.
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:41.119
So maybe that's why they're they're coming in with a different hot woman every time.
01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:42.079
But like he did.
01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:46.159
I remember as a young comic who knew everything, I was like, why isn't he working on his material?
01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:47.360
Why isn't he trying new stuff?
01:00:47.519 --> 01:00:54.880
Why is he and like in hindsight, like he was just a dude that liked to get bio and like cheap drinks and tell some jokes.
01:00:55.119 --> 01:00:56.639
Yeah, different goals, you know.
01:00:57.119 --> 01:01:04.400
And so some of these people, and for a lot of them, um, the reason they do the same bit that they know that works is they're anxious to try something new.
01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:05.199
Yeah.
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:09.280
And so, you know, I don't know what to tell you.
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:14.880
You write a new five minutes, do it, make it amazing, and then give it to them and say, please do that next week.
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:16.559
Yeah, then they have no excuses.
01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:18.480
Yeah, it's like I wrote you new jokes.
01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:19.280
Um, all right.
01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:24.079
This one comes from Facebook, uh, Jeremy Long, uh, who's a longtime follower of my old podcast.
01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:26.400
Um, Fast and Furious fan, though.
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:27.199
Yeah, they were yeah.
01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:30.079
Welcome to this podcast.
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:33.760
Um, we hardly ever talk about Fast and Furious, and really that's sad.
01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:37.920
Um so his question is simply uh where did I leave my keys?
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.559
You you probably left it in your last pants pocket.
01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:46.000
Last pants pocket.
01:01:46.079 --> 01:01:46.400
I like that.
01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:47.760
Yeah, it's in your last pants pocket.
01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:48.320
So check there.
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:48.800
Check there.
01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:49.039
All right.
01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:51.119
Jeremy, let us know if it's in your last pants pocket.
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:52.239
That sounds sounds right though.
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:52.960
Plausible.
01:01:53.119 --> 01:02:00.159
Um I I just envision he literally lost his keys while he's uh reading through Facebook frantically trying to find out.
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:05.119
He was doing uh talk to text and he's like, maybe they'll know.
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:06.960
I love that.
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:07.360
All right.
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:08.480
Well, thank you for doing that.
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:10.639
The hardest one.
01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:10.960
I don't know.
01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:11.440
I don't know.
01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:12.559
You well, hopefully it's there.
01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:14.000
If not, we've shown the dark.
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:18.559
If it's not in your pants, then I hope nobody clips that out.
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:22.079
That's exactly what I thought.
01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:23.039
I was like, that's the clip.
01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:24.239
That is the clip.
01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:28.639
So oh yeah, I was outro in the body.
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.920
So I was like, well, where were we before talking about Jeremy's pants?
01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:34.960
I don't um thank you.
01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:37.760
Honestly, that sounds like a great alternative uh song.
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:39.599
Jeremy's pants or band.
01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:40.880
Oh yeah, I like that.
01:02:41.119 --> 01:02:44.639
Like Jimmy Eat Eat World opening is opening for them.
01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:44.960
I love it.
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:46.800
Warp tour 2027.
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:48.800
But I'm sorry, you were doing an outro.
01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:49.760
I was.
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:51.199
I'm trying this time it'll work.
01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:51.840
Try again.
01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:52.320
Okay.
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:56.800
Um, thank you so much for being on this podcast and answering all of our questions.
01:02:56.960 --> 01:03:00.880
Uh, this is your time to plug and point and direct us to anything.
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:07.599
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01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:11.840
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01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.440
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01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:22.079
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01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:22.800
Yeah.
01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:27.679
And you know, Bryn's Walmart special, which is my Walmart special out this Wednesday.
01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:30.159
Yeah, it's it's it's already it's already out.
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:30.639
My bad.
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:31.599
Yeah, we're in the past.
01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:32.639
I'm way on top of it.
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:33.280
Yeah, it is.
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:37.039
It came out on Wednesday, and trillions of people have seen it.
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:42.639
It's actually broke the internet twice, but um, it it is back up now, so you guys can go check the website out.
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:44.559
Um and my new special out December 6th.
01:03:44.719 --> 01:03:45.519
Yes, December 6th.
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:45.920
That'll be great.
01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:46.559
We'll make sure we can.
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:47.679
On my YouTube channel.
01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:51.199
So yeah, so follow Bryn does comedy on YouTube or Brin's.
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:52.000
Oh, I should have done that.
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:53.760
Bryn D uh, Bryn Daniels Comedy.
01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:54.239
Yes.
01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:58.159
Uh, which you can if when you go to a Walmart special, you can link to there, which is great.
01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:00.639
Yeah, um, and we'll post about it on Clean Comedy Collective stuff.
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01:04:22.559 --> 01:04:24.800
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Some of them, I won't tell you which ones, except for except for occasionally I'll let them know when they're on this podcast.
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:37.440
Um, but that's the only time we can be authentic in our friendships, is in public.
01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:38.639
Absolutely, yeah.
01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:40.480
And there's gonna be some it's performative.
01:04:41.119 --> 01:04:48.719
Some person who's wrote down a 10 list right now and is already like putt Bryn down and then they're gonna start keeping up with whenever I'm in one day.
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:51.119
They're gonna be like, no, they're not, because this is 11.
01:04:51.679 --> 01:04:52.400
Absolutely.
01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:54.480
So uh well, this has been fun.
01:04:54.559 --> 01:04:56.719
We'll see you all next week when we bring a different guest in.
01:04:56.880 --> 01:05:00.320
And I hope you have a great rest of the week and enjoy your life until next time.
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:01.280
All right, bye.
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Bye.