July 17, 2025 • 50 mins
Join host Coline Witt in this laugh-out-loud episode of 'Eating While Broke' featuring comedian and actor Lance Woods! Lance takes us on a hilarious journey as he whips up a nostalgic snack—simple yet heartfelt cinnamon toast—while sharing his inspiring story of rising through the comedy ranks.
From imitating his pastor in church as a kid to breaking into the stand-up comedy circuit and transitioning into acting, Lance opens up about the challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned along the way.
With humorous anecdotes about growing up, navigating the business of comedy, and balancing his career in acting, this episode is packed with laughs, inspiration, and a touch of cinnamon sweetness.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very
special guest, comedian actor Lance Woods is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you so much for having me. It smells good
in here. It does like there's been some cooking going.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
They would say this, there was a girl that made
us really good tacos. Yes, tacos.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That what kind of tacos?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
They were ground turkey. But what made her tacos good
was she did this, like she fried the flower and
it was like a puffy like pastry type. It was
really good. It was like all snap, I had to
call cut.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I like it when people get creative with normal ingredients.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah. I never had tacos like that, but that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Means like my tacos Sea, I fried the lettuce and
then and I seized all the cheese individually. People got
some things that they do a regular you never thought about.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Never. Never. But speaking of that, I have a slang
on the show that goes the broker the dish, the
better the story. Okay, And lately I get these dishes
and they're like twenty dollars thirty dollars worth of ingredients. Yes,
it does feed the whole family. But when we saw
your email, it was very simple. Go ahead and tell
our listeners what it is you're gonna have me eating today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you the dish first. This is
just some cinnamon toast, not just it is cinnamon toast.
The ingredients are simple. You need bread, you need butter,
you need sugar, you need cinnamon, You need a toaster
or a oven.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, there we go. I saw that and I was like,
oh yes, thank god, Oh my gosh. We ain't got
to do a whole lot of shop, but we could
just stop by.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You pick some stuff up.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And this is stuff stuff you have in your fridg
at home guys. Cinnamon and sugar and butter. So really,
if you're out of bread, that's the only thing you
need to get. So that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You're gonna get some bread.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, go ahead and start making the cinnamon toast.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I'm gonna start cooking it right now.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh man, do I get out? Stay? Do I stay seated?
Do I?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Really, it's up to you. It's up to you. This
is your moment, This is your chef moment.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Can y'all hear me? You can see me still right, yeah,
and you were in alive you said what you oh duh.
So look first you take your bread. Damn, take your bread,
and you put it in the toaster. Now when you
now this is key. When you put it in the toaster,
you don't just drop it in the toaster. No, you
place it in the toaster. Show your bread some love,
(02:39):
you know what I mean. You make this dish with love.
It's like dropping your baby off at school. You don't
just you say hey, and you know what I mean.
Then you set the toaster for it's good. Depending on
how you like your toast. No, I mean, if you
want some light skin toast, you go a little more
that way. You want some dark skinned toast, you go
a little more that way. You know what I mean.
Right now we are that's right in the middle.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The comedy's already started.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I mean, so we're right in the middle. You know
what I mean on the colorism of the toast. Now,
everybody has a different method when it comes to pushing
the toast. To me, I like to use these two fingers.
This is my toaster fingers, you know what I mean.
So then when you take these fingers.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm sorry for all your listeners out there just wanting
to hear his backstory.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And you toast that, and you just let that happen.
You let that toast happen. That when the toast is toasted,
that's when you are anticipating. You feel me. You're getting
excited about what's about to happen. You know what I'm saying,
because oh, this is about to be fantastic. Now if
you can eat this without the bread being toasted, but
then it ain't the same.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I couldn't imagine anything without bread toasted, because.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You shouldn't imagine that. That's something you shouldn't imagine. You
got it. If it ain't toasted, it ain't the same.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Have you ever done it toasted?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, that sounds absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, I would never. I don't even so I used to.
I'm sorry, this is real to be going back to
the origins.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, that was what I was about to ask you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We're going back to the origins of being broke when
you I got grew up in a house. I had
two siblings. I'm in the middle. Yeah, I'm the favorite.
You got to feed three children, and so it's a
lot of bulk stuff, bread, cereal, snacks, big like just
filling things. Right, should have a lot of bread because
(04:25):
bread is cheap, and you can get a good amount
of bread and you make the sandwiches and all of that,
and then sometimes you might run out of meat for
the sandwich, the cheese or whatever. So now you gotta
get a different kind of creative when it comes. We
got all this bread, what we're gonna do with it?
You know what I mean? So I used to eat
bread balls. You ever had a bread ball? You want
to try one?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm down to try bread ball. Okay, No, never mind.
I think I know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I'm not gonna do anything. You're gonna do it. It's
a bread it's your bread ball.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
All right, let's do this. Okay, I think I know
what he's gonna make me do.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Take that bread. Welcome to there you go. Ball it up,
ball it up.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Not the crust, that's that's yo.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know what I mean. If you were a cruster,
or if you were not crust, that's on you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm gonna take off the crust.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, take off the crust.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm gonna be a special. I'm gonna be one of those. Mom,
don't waste the bread.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
A feeling I'm not gonna the bread ball.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, you took a lot of the bread off when
you bring it. It was too late. No, that's not forwarding.
You got ballt there you there you go, Come on,
come on, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Where's our hand sanitizer?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, it's too late. Wasn't no hand sanitizer the nineties.
That's why our immune system is so good. These new
kids is salt. They need sanitizer for everything. Whatever happened
to eating a little flu covid? You're right, Covid.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Told us a lot about germs. Guys, we got the
bread ball.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There you go, yeah, yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I wonder if anyone's ever put like cinnamon and sugar
in the bread ball.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't know. I don't think. No. I just enjoy
the raw. But make sure you drink your water because
if not, it's going the gray ball gonna stay right there,
ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Did you come from a two parent household?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah? I came from to a parent household. That's simply
put you to private school. I had really good parents,
and Claren's parents had a real good marriage. It was
the two parent household but we had our issue.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And they had a really good marriage too.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, they did not. They had a very interesting relationship.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They still married.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No they are not.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh look she is piping over here, guys.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, boom.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So your parents separated at what age.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was grown? So my dad was around when I
was really small, and then something happened and they got
into something, and then he left and he came back,
probably when I was around ten something like that. He
was back for maybe a few months. They got married.
They got married right back, and then they stayed married
(07:02):
until I was probably like twenty something. I don't remember
the exact days. But then they stayed married. And but
it wasn't they shouldn't have been together.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, so they was fighting from day one, from day one. Okay,
so they had a couple of kids after they got
back together.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, we was all there already. Ooh yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh so he left and really came back.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He left and came back. Okay, yeah, yeah, he left
and came back. They I don't know what happened, but
they got it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Was you didn't ask.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No, I didn't care, Not that I didn't care, but
at that time, especially too, it was like staying in
a child's place. Back then, as an adult, kids weren't
allowed to ask questions, and.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Ask questions later that just it wasn't really really chang.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It just wasn't. I'm somebody who was grateful for a lot.
I was just grateful for the time, grateful for this.
I wasn't thinking like, why did you eat what we
wasn't good? I didn't think like that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's like, so you were happy to have them back, happy.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
To have them back, happy to have my mom, happy
to see them together in the whatever capacity that was.
And then when they broke up, I was happy that
they did that because I understood that it didn't make
sense to be together. I was watching it. You ever
had parents that argue a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I'm a mixed bread I was exposed to other problems.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, I was just yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't think people really are you Jamaican? My mom's Jamaican.
It's like a one.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Sided oh yeah, yeah. You just you gotta listen and
be like okay, all right, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right, it's more like a silent okay.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah. Well it's crazy. Was that they would argue so much.
It almost was entertainment. Like when you young you just
get I mean, you're looking forward to Oh, it's about
to be some drama and it would be about anything.
That's how you That's how I knew that was supposed
really like they would argue over things, that's what.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You like, over how much butter to put on this
hot toast.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now I'm gonna tell you. Now, I'm gonna show y'all
this is real. Back back to the basics. So first off,
she handed me a butter knife to spread the butter
on the toast. First mistake. This is how you gotta
do this.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You gotta take it's already melted by the way.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You gotta take this just like this, okay, or it
ain't right.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The butter knife makes it not official. You take the
bread and you take the butter, and you spread it
just like that. That's how you gotta do it. You
see that. You see what you oh man? Then you
take the butter night and you clean up your mess
and you put that over there because they fanted.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They brought melted butter.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
All right, let me tell you something. They go all
out at eating with broke. But this is going back
to when you was broke, so you couldn't melt the butter.
You have to just let the butter sit out and
hope it melted and put it in the sun or something.
So then boom, that's how we did it. Like that.
You spread the butter on it just like that. It
looks like exactly exactly. Boom.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
All right, cool, Now we got the butter.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Boom. You see how butter that is.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Boom, a lot of butter.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Now you take your sugar, right yep, Okay, I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna do it this way. Boom. You
gonna take the sugar.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It was the last time you had this, man at
least twenty something years. Boom, you're about to go down
and reminiscent plan Boom.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then you take the sugar. That's a lot of sugar,
it is. And you know what's crazy is usually you
will put the cinnamon first. Oh, you will put the
cinnamon before the sugar because the cinnamon holds the sugar.
Everybody know that. Oh nope, okay, boom. Then you take
the cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Oh my goodness, that's a lot of cinnamon. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Boom. Now, back in the day, because this is your toast,
you would have took your finger and spread it properly.
But thank god we got some civilization now, So now
we're gonna we're gonna spread the sugar and the butter
and the cinnamon like that boom and put that on
there like that nice. Now try that and tell me
(10:48):
that's not taking But tell me that's not the most
beautiful delicacy in the hood you ever had.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You know, you're eating this too, right, I would.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Never eat that again in my life. But no, you
go ahead, and what are you talking about this?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I think I'm the only tester bunny rabbit around here.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I got you. I got you here.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay, cheers, don't give me your butter outside.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I got you. That tastes like seventh grade.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I think I'm better at this than you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh yeah, how to do it?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Uh huh yeah, but this is really good. Hold on,
you cut two little sugar in mind loaded up?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh okay, okay, hold on, go ahead. Now, it's not
enough sugar. Too much sugar, ain't sweet enough. You know
what I'm saying there like that? Take another BikeE Now,
let me tell you about that.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Let me trying to shave up his dish.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Let me tell you about this. Right here, me and
my brothers, my cousins, because my house, our houses, everybody
would come to neighborhood. Everybody come kick them out. My brothers,
my cousin, my uncles, my young I got uncle. That's
my age. My mom is the oldest of nine children.
(12:13):
We'd come in my room, bring the toaster, bring the
We would literally bring the toaster in the room, bring
the toaster in the room, bring the loaf of bread,
bring the butt. And we were just sitting there watching
TV making this, eating it like this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Was the snack.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
This was what it was. But you get full because
it's bread. We're getting full off this. We this used
to be like we look forward to yo. You didn't
bring the toaster. With what you're doing, Go get the toaster.
You mean nothing to be going back and forth to
the kitchen. Were playing video games. We're watching Jerry Springer,
Jenny Jones, Martin the Box remember the Box, right music?
(12:52):
But and we was eating this. That's how we was
getting down.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Take me back, now, So you come from this parent household,
where does you start to look towards the comedy direction?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
At what age I started comedy when I was I
don't know what I know what age I started going
into comedy clubs. I was like twenty when I started comedy.
I started in my church. So what happened?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
While you need some water that dry ass toast.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I don't need no water, I need a whooping. I'm
gonna go back. I need to go all the way back.
I need to go clean my room or something. This
would just take me back to it. Oh wow, I
need some chores, you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'm Oh wow, it's nostalgic.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's nostalgic, and you ain't got what the TV put
your springer on. Let me call it. I'm gonna go
home and pie in a bit. So I used to
imitate my pastor. I come from. My pastors were animated,
So I used to be at the house and I
would just imitate him to my mom and my sister's joking.
At this point, my brother had already left for college,
but I would just be imitating him, just joking around
(14:00):
and my sister my mom would laugh, and that was
enough for me. And then my mom at the time,
she was over the church anniversary. She would put the
programs together for the anniversaries. She said, I'm gonna have
you do that at the church. I'm not doing that
at the church, you know what I mean. No, And
then so at the anniversary, she put me. I didn't
know she put me on on the program. So then
(14:21):
she say, whoever, I don't remember who was am seeing
the event that night, but they she say like this,
they say, and next up we got brother Lance. That's
how it because I wasn't I wasn't like, I wasn't
talking to you if I wasn't like the life of
the party. I was really like quiet, real quiet, you
know what I mean. So when they read they was
everybody was like because they didn't even say what I
(14:43):
was doing. It was just that I was coming to
the stage. So I go up and all I remember
is the first thing I said was you'all know how
pastor be on Sunday? And then I just went into it.
And when I tell you, everybody in the church was
like hollering, like my pastor was like on the floor
with real tears coming out of like it was real tears,
you know what I mean. Somebody jumped up, running and
(15:07):
rant like it was a fire, Like it was insane.
And that was the first time I had ever done
anything like that on a stage. I wasn't thinking I
was going to be a comedian at the time. Yeah,
I just thought that was fun.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Now was that? Did that then? Lights some kind of
spark an you right there?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It did, But I didn't know how to go from
that to a comedian.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What did your mom say after that performance?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
She was like, oh my god, that was so funny.
She was like you was like, there's some wrong with
you boy. She was just kind of like that. But
I started comedy before Instagram. There was no Instagram. I
don't remember if I think YouTube was out, but it
wasn't like it is now.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
My point of saying, this is the only and I
didn't grow up in LA or New York. I grew
up in Sacramento, So you didn't you only see comedians
on TV. Like I think it's somebody's like they want
to start comedy now, they'll go on Instagram and they
got all of these examples of comedians or people who
are doing humorous things. But like, oh, I can do that,
(16:12):
But that's not how it was. This was when I
did that at the church. That was probably two thousand
and six, maybe or something like that, two thousand and five.
I started comedy in ten, twenty eleven, when I first
started getting on stage, you know what I mean. So
(16:33):
this was eight years earlier or something like that, six
years or something like that. Yeah, I didn't know. I
just knew that was real cool.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And did you start gravitating towards watching comedy tapes?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Though? I always did I start. I think I probably
started watching more, but I always grew up watching comedy.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, So take me to the first time where you
start to pursue comedy.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Okay. So it goes back to the church. If so
much of my story is rooted in the church, That's
something I'm real grateful for. Because my church, my pastor
would try to nurture gifts. If he's seeing you had
a gift, he would try to create things or nurture
it to to help get you to where you can
(17:19):
get to. Oh, I do the thing at the church.
So now going forward, every time there was an event
at the church, they would just ask me to do something.
Can you just host it? Like something?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Just so you went from the kid that they were
like super quiet, So now this is the kid they
want to mc.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's worse than this. So I used to do the
sound at the church. Wow, Like I used to because
I always knew this was always knew I was supposed
to be a star. I always knew I was supposed
to be someone impactful, but I ran from it. I
used to always try to be behind the scenes. So
instead of doing I would say, I do the sound,
I do the I'll do the I would hold the camera,
(17:59):
but I got real bad vision. I got contacts in.
But if I took my contacts out, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I'll be holding up three fingers that you say you
ain't see nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, if I was, you'd be my color. If I
took my contacts out, it's bad. But I never wore glasses.
I just used to thug it out. I didn't wear
contacts back then either. I just used to just walk
around blind. So I used to be doing the sound
at the church, but I couldn't really see. So the
pastor would be like telling me to turn stuff up,
and I'm just looking and he's like, yeah, I'm like
thumbs out. I am doing a good job. It was bad.
(18:30):
I hold I did somebody's wedding and I was holding
the camera, but I was all over the place because
it was bad. I was just trying to do all
these things, just running from my gift right back to
the church. So he would do these things like host
this event. We're doing this, can you host it? So
then he created this first Friday's event. It was like
a talent show, like people come through and I was
(18:51):
hosting that and that was another time where I just
got to just be on It was just me really
being on stage in front of people, figuring that out,
getting comfortable with that. So now fast forward, we're going
into New Year's Eve, going into the year twenty ten.
Now a lot of churches have services on New Year's
(19:12):
Eve to go and you don't got to be out
there in the streets for New Years. You can come
bring the new year in with the law. Yes, when
I get your years started in the House of the
Lord like that right. So then my pastor's son, Ishmael
called me. He said, hey, can you do some comedy
at the New Year's event?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And I was like, okay, how did it go?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It went great. But this was my first time ever
writing jokes. Everything I did before that was me making
fun of people at the church, are imitating people that
This was the first time I wrote jokes that had
nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
With the church, and it had to be PG too.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
For sure. Yeah. Yeah, but my church wasn't PG. Never mind,
that's another story. Listen, we're not gonna talk about that
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So you wrote these jokes and that they landed.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They landed very well. These jokes. I don't do them now,
but I could if I think back to the jokes.
I was always good writing, always understood jokes. I understood
what a punch sign was supposed to be. I understood.
I just I had a good understanding of jokes. That
was the first time I wrote jokes that was just
like this, I'm not gonna I don't want to. I
(20:19):
don't want to tell jokes about sister, her or brother.
I just want to write jokes. So that was that.
That went, well, that's November going, and how.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Old are you at that time?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Twenty twenty two, twenty three, okay, okay, twenty two. Yeah,
so then that's going into the new year. Now, this
was this is crazy. My church is directly across the
street from a comedy club.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh, the signs are lining up for you very directly, like.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
This, What is up with this?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Mic is not feeling you today? I don't know what
is up with it?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, it happens But the same way with this is
how close to like walk across the street and you're
at the comedy club. But I never knew that because
I never knew what a comedy club was.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So at some point you acknowledge this comedy club.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I acknowledged the comedy club.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is this the first club you actually go into as ever?
Stand up?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And then how did you do over there? You want
the full story, I want the story where you bombed.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That story didn't happen for a while. Wow. Yeah, the
bomb story happened for sure, but it didn't happen at
that point.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Now, so you do you start doing comedy in this club?
Do you stay at this club for a long time
before you sit in?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You know this the Sacramento punchline. So I go there
because they have a showcase once a month, So June second,
I go the week the month before May May fifth,
It was the first Wednesday of every month. It was
May fifth, but it was single to mile, so they
moved it to May twelfth, which is my brother and
my uncle's birthday. These dates are all significant to me.
(22:00):
That's my first time I ever went to go watch
live comedy. So I go to the punchline and I
go watch live comedy for the first time. I sit,
I'm right in the middle, second row, and I'm just watching,
and I'm like in awe, like watching everybody was amazing.
I couldn't believe, like how they was able to do this.
I know all these guys now and some of them
weren't amazing, but to me at the time at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, this is incredible, you.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Know what I mean. So I said, I'm gonna come
back and do it next month. So now next month.
Now we're at June second. So I pull up, I
knock on the door. Doors open at seventh, show started
and I get there six fifth, I knock on the door. Hey,
I'm here. I'm here for the comedy show. She was like, okay,
come back in ten minutes when we open. I said, okay,
(22:46):
I'm wanting the comedian. And she said, okay, come back
in ten minutes. Won't be open. I said, okay, cool,
I come back at seven o'clock. I'm here and she's okay.
Let me. There's the manager and I say, hey, how
you doing man, I'm here for the show tonight and
he said at who are you? I said, ma'am I'm
Lames Woods, and he was like, I don't know you,
and I said, okay, well, how do I sign up
(23:08):
for the show? He said, there ain't no sign up
for the show. If I don't know you, I don't
You're not That's not how it works. So then I
was like, oh okay, and then I just left. So
I went back to my car. But then I'm like,
I can't leave. I told all these people I was
going to be at the show tonight and.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You was advertising the show that you weren't even on first.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I didn't know no better. I just I go on
the website. They said it's a show, you got a showcase.
I'm Okaylyn, what do you do?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You go back?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I go back because this is once again before instead before,
like Facebook is a thing. But I've told everybody, yeah,
listen to me, like yo, this is what we're doing
this tonight. So I'm I can't leave. I don't got
everybody's number. So I go back and I'm talking to
him like, hey man, I talked I'm be on the show.
Then I just need five minutes. And he was just
(23:57):
like he would say real mean things walk away. You'd
be like everybody say they funny to their bomb and
then what then he walk away. I'm just standing there.
Damn what happens after the bomb? You know what I mean? Yeah,
I'm processing all of this. So then twenty minutes go
by thirty Now it was seven thirty, and I'm like,
hey man, I just need five minutes of your time, bro.
So we're standing by the bar. Now, this is what
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the entrance is. So he would come by the bar
say something, walk away. So now let's say it's seven forty.
Show start at eight o'clock, seven thirty five. People keep
coming into the show saying, A Lance can't wait to
see you, and hey, do your think the night? Bro?
A Lance? Hey do? Hey Bro, I'm proud of and
he's this was a lesson I learned early about selling tickets. Yeah,
(24:39):
I didn't know nothing about no guest, less than nothing.
Everybody who can to send me bought a ticket. So
by the time it's seven point fifty five, the club
is packed and it's probably sixty people that came to
see me, which is sixty people. Sixty people. Yeah, oh yeah,
it's a lot for you. He had. I didn't know
no better, you know what I mean? This is my
first introduction into show business. I didn't know. I had
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just sold a bunch of tickets and people came to
see me, and your hands are tied at this point.
So then at seven fifty five he said, okay, you
got five minutes. You're going up first. Jesus, I said, okay,
I didn't even know I was supposed to be nervous
to go first. Yeah, you know what I mean. I
was so like angry because I had a bad temper.
It's better now, but especially at that time, I was
(25:23):
real like short. So I'm angry because how you talking
to me? You know what I mean? And I didn't
tell nobody who came to see me what was going on,
because then it would have been a group problem. Yeah,
I mean, so I'm trying to just be chill. And
so then he come back to me eight o'clock he said, okay,
you're going up third first, he said the first thing.
He said, you're going third. So then there's a host,
(25:43):
two comics, and then me the comic that goes on
before me. He was probably on stage for seven minutes.
I don't think anybody smiled, not a smile. Yeah, And
that made me more angry because it's do better, and
I gotta fight for five minutes and he just get
to go on with No, he ain't put on no fight,
(26:05):
and you let this have it. So I go on stage.
It went really well. It went really well my first time,
but like it was, the jokes I were telling were funny.
I wasn't a great performance my first time at a
comedy club, but I still remember the jokes I told.
I remember like they were quality jokes for my first time.
And then from then do you just start to meet
the comics and go places and figure out stuff and oh,
(26:29):
this guy has a room over here, and this guy
has a room over here. Now if you want to
hear the bomb, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, I don't want to hear the bomb. So you
so after that club, you do well? Do you start
to now understand the process of going after a certain
title in the club and pitching yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
No, I still don't see this is what I thought.
I thought it went well, and I was like, so,
am I supposed to wait for HBO to call? Or
do I need to send them the tape from tonight
because clearly they need to know who I am. Did
y'all see what I just did? Yeah, that's how I'm thinking.
I didn't know how none of this stuff works. Yeah,
so I'm like, oh not Yeah, Chris Rocket is funny,
(27:05):
but I was funny too, So clearly we should be
working together. That's how they're supposed to work. What are
we talking about? So I was just I didn't know.
I didn't know, Like I ain't know. I was at
that point, I'm real like just inquisitive, like I'm trying
to figure out what am I supposed to be doing
because I don't know nothing?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So who are you going to find out? What's your
next play?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
The comics I met that night. I remember one comics
is friend of mine still, his name is Miles Weber.
I was like, yo, how do you make money doing this?
And he was like, hell if I know?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Like that was like, how long do you think? How
long was your struggle for at least not making money?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Not making money? My first time on stage that was
June second. The next year, November second was my last
day work on a day job.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh so within a year you were able to fully
support yourself off comedy.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I was able to figure it out. I wouldn't say fully, no, yeah, yes,
fully supported myself. I had to change some things. I
had to learn how to manage my money different. Yeah,
I had to learn what not to do. Okay, maybe
I don't need that. Do I really need cable? I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
So I really started living on a budget.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Started living on a budget, you know what I mean,
start dating lesser women. But you just have to change it.
You gotta change some things up. I mean, look, so
you're not in a budget.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's hilarious. Did you start dating women that had more
money too?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Did that help you at some point in your journey?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, but not like that. It was what really helped
was I learned how much stuff I don't need. Yeah,
Like I just learned. Like what I realized is the
thing that we get caught up in is we when
we make money, everything we call everything we get cost
like constant money. So it's like I haven't had a
(28:59):
card since my first car. I've never had another car.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Really no, I'm like very highly, I'm a car no queen. Yeah,
and every time I'm about to tire, I'm like, nope,
put me in.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah another one. Yeah, But that's how the cycle work.
So I'm like people pay bills on iPhones like they
want the new phone. So then they add yeah, yeah,
and it's know. If I'm going to get the new phone,
just go buy it. If I can't afford it, then
I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Smart you live within your means, which is a good,
very good thing. I can't imagine Sacramento and correct me
if I'm wrong. You get to go up that many
nights or the times in one night?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Why not? All right, So I'll tell you this story.
I'm trying to find comedy clubs and things now at
this point in my head, you can never tell the
same joke twice. This is what I believe. So I thought,
once you told that joke, you got to tell new jokes.
So every time.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm running at a different speed.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I didn't know. And at that point I was just
so excited. Everything I thought was fun I wrote everything
I thought was funny. If I just wrote it all down,
I'm just gonna try it on stage.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
But how many clubs are you averaging a night in Sacramento?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So that that's what I was gonna tell you, But
I'll speed through it. When I was really getting good,
I was on stage at a minimum twelve times.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
A week, twelve times a week. Yeah, in Sacramento they
have that many clubs you can get up that. How
what's the distance between the clubs though, all within already
thirty miles that's pretty so like almost thirty minutes apart
or within. Yeah, so what because I'm saying this because
if you're a comic in New York, you can get
(30:38):
reps up that right, most of your comedy. The more
reps you do, the better you get, right, even though
you're writing new material on the regular. Clearly, I'm just
trying to figure out for you to at least maintain
yourself how much repping you're doing to get to the
point where you're semi sustainable within a year.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
So that's what it was. It was. There was three
comedy clubs, like Major Club. You had the Punchline, You
had Tommy T's, and then you had Laps Unlimited. Tommy
T's has since shut the one that Sacramento has, but
Punchline and Laps Unlimited are still there. So those were
the three clubs. Then you had there's a spot called
the Touch of Class, like a black Spy. It's like
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it's like a nationally known amongst comics. This was like
a spywork. Every black comic had came through at some point.
And I don't know if you ever seen Kevin Hart
Heart of the City. He shot at a Touch of Class.
The first episode ever was shot in Sacramento. Touch a Class.
So that was on Sundays. But then there was another
spot called on the Y, a little bar they did comedy.
(31:39):
You did that, so I would go to And then
there was a spot called the Comedy Spot. They did
mostly improv, but they did stand up too, so I
would go, Okay, on Sunday, I could hit the comedy spot,
I could hit on the Y, and I hit the
Touch of Class.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So that's three on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
So how long did you work a Sacramento for a
year or did you When did you start to say
I'm going to move out of the Sacramento zone.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
To start you mean to start to travel outside of
Sack to the shows.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Do you still live in Sacramento? You live in La.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I live in l A. Yeah, okay, but I just
moved to l A.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Like how long ago? Oh okay, so you're new here? Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
But I've been coming to La so long.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, it was like, what I'm trying. What I'm trying
to get a lay of the land, because got twenty
more minutes. Is I want to see, like how long
it took for you to get that consistency and what
markets did you have to work to get that consistency up?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
When I the first thing, there's a guy, one of
the first not one of the first guys whoever took
me on the road, named Daniel Dugar. I bury you
and he was like, Yo, you gotta go to grow,
You got to go to grow. So then he had
gave me his number one time. And I'm not the
best at calling people. I had somebody's number and I
(32:59):
just want to use I'll be trying to get better
at that. So I remember I called him one day
and I was like, Yo, what should I be doing there?
How can I do this? And then he's big on
like wardrobe. He's like a real sharp he always with
his suits. He was like, man, your wardrobe is important.
He talk. So then me and him we just went shopping.
He's just like, yo, let's just go shopping, bro. Just
so I started wearing suits and all that. That wasn't
(33:20):
really my thing, but it was just something. But he
was like, Yo, why don't you start. You can come.
I got these shows. You can come on the road.
There's these things called triple runs that's on the West coast,
and it'll be like I'm talking about all of these
small little Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington state, and you get
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in a car and just drive to all of these spots.
But just like this show might pay three hundred, this
one might pay one fifty, this one might pay five.
And then so you do that for a week and
you might come home with a thousand dollars. If you
got some merchandise, you might come home with two thousand,
fifteen hundred, whatever the case is. Right, So that I
started to do that, Okay, I would just get in
(34:02):
the car and just drive, okay, and just go pick
up nine hund here, three hundred here, one point fifty here,
sometimes get a room time, sleep in the car. Just really.
But I was having the most fun because I was
doing I wanted to do. So if I got a
drive thirteen dollars, I don't mind, because I'm finna go
see the most beautiful woman in the world. You know
what I mean. Comedy?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh okay, wait, what so you're doing all of this
and maintaining a budget. What are you doing with your
daytime though there's no hustling during the day, You're just
like living life and writing comics.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, it was just I was doing regular stuff, went
to the gym playing basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Where does that acting enter?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So I started acting once again. I'm at a show.
We're doing. My man Greg Vaughn had a a compedy do,
a golf tournament and a comedy show before the day before.
So we're doing the comedy show. It's me, Tony Roberts,
Chris Spencer, alex Tommy, Buddy Lewis, Flex Alexander. Yeah, that's
(35:06):
the show. This is in Sacramento two. So we do
that show and after the show, this guy comes to
talk to me. He says, hey, man, you're really funny.
My friend is a movie director and I just want
you to meet him. Okay, So he says to me,
he's just I just think you should meet him. I said, okay.
He said, He said, yeah, are you gonna be at
the golf tournament tomorrow. I said, yeah, I'll be there.
(35:26):
He said, he's gonna be there. I'll make sure that
you guys meet the golf tournament. I said, okay. Cool.
So then the next day golf tournament. This guy's name
is Nick Leasure, film director. So I meet Nick and
he was just like, yeah, Brian, here just here. You're
really funny bro, And yeah, bro, we should just let's
figure out we can work together. I want to see
you perform. When do you perform it. I just happen
to have a show that night at the Tommy t
(35:47):
that is no longer open. I was like, I'll be
at Tommy T's tonight. He was like, I'm coming through.
So he come to Tommy T's. He's bro. That was great, bro.
I just yeah, we gotta figure something out. The next
within the week he called. He sent me like a
script and he was like, I want you to read
for this part right here, or read this part and
then just send me like a video of you.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So then I'm like all right, cool. So then I
send it to him and then he's yeah, come out.
I want you to come out of the office. Come out.
Office is yeah, bro, we start filming. We start filming
in two muths or in a mother or somebody else.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Before he gave you the role, did you ever entertain
the idea of acting for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I never entertained the idea, but I've never done any
of the steps that would show that.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And you didn't go to acting school.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I did none of those things. I did none of
those things. But it was like, that's how it came
to me. And this was like this movie was like Starr, Mario,
ven People's and Glenn Plumbers and it was like, I'm
with seasoned actors.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Now did you like the whole experience?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Absolutely? Acting. Acting is a it's a different sport. It's
like a totally different sport. But I love acting because
you get to be someone that's not yourself, you know
what I mean. You get to disappear into something else.
It's a different it's a different muscle, Like you challenge
yourself differently, you know what I mean. You read the
part and you got to say, Okay, what would the
character do? Not? What would I do? What would I
(37:08):
how would he say this? Yeah? Yeah, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Now, now that you've experienced both sports, which one do
you like more?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Still?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Comedy?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Comedy? Yeah, I got you got more control over the comedy.
This is I love acting, though I'm getting more into
the acting space now because I'm first off I'm a
comic first, I'm a comedian.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
So everything you're very funny, by the way, extremely funny.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I appreciate you, thank you. But everything I do to
bring you to my comedy, you know what I mean?
So I can go do one hundred movies. My goal,
one of my main goals is for you to now
come see me do comedy. Right. So it's like Denzel
just said, he just said, a theater is an actors medium.
(37:55):
Film is a director's medium. The stage is a comedians medium.
You know what I'm saying. So no matter what I
do in front of the camera, they might take it
and edit it different and that's not what I did.
But that's what they're supposed to do. This is their thing.
But the stage is my thing. This is how This
(38:16):
is the purest of my thoughts and how I can
break it down. This is without the edit, without the cut.
This is how I feel. I said it, you know
what I mean. So, yeah, comedy, comedy always be first.
You never say always, but I feel comfortable saying what.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Would you say is the downside of being in this industry?
You've been in it for over twenty years, i'd imagine,
or almost twenty almost thirteen thirteen, yeah, thirteen.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Fourteen, my bad, fourteen fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, what would you say is the downside of it?
If you could say there.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, like to say a downside, I'll say it affects
relationships for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But give me like a romantic relationship all of them?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
But yeah, for sure, all of them, all of them.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Why do you say all of them.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
You missed so much?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Do you have children?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
No, I'll be pulling out, but saying why I pulled
this out to toast. You got to you got to
get in the pot of there and.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Now, okay, he's got a strong pull out game.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You want to eat this sentiment, you got to pull
it out, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Always wrap it up to guys, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
If you wrap it up. Do you really believe that?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
So it'd be affecting all relationships as a family members
because you said all relationships or relationships.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Just I can't. I missed all the birthday parties. They
do it on the weekend on the road, you know
what I mean. So it's but I think even that
can change later. It is because I've been on the
road consistently now six years.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Was mastering online social media tough for you.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, I don't think I've mastered it.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
But but you're Your following is pretty good though, So
it looks like you're starting to get a hang of
the algorithms.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
The following is growing up. I understand how to be
funny on the internet, which is different.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It's a different type of comedy.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Stage, which is different than being funny here. Everything is
a different kind of thing to be funny. But I
will say online, I think I need to grow my
YouTube page. I need to get some long form content. Damn.
And I got probably got like eight thousand YouTube subscribers.
(40:24):
That's still pretty good without ever trying. Yeah, I've never
tried to build a page.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Why do you feel it's important to build a YouTube
page though?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Because I feel like everybody in the world uses YouTube?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Do you think that?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
And then from the babies to the eldest, does.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
The social media play a role into how much you
get paid?
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Now? Absolutely, that's it's the new television. It's like the
last star that was comedian who was like from a movie,
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, that's a good point. What do you think of
these like comics like Matt Rife, that's.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
My friend that's my guy. I love that guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It at that, then I'm not gonna say nothing past it.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Matt, MAT's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I think you think he's funny.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Man's hilarious. This is what I believe. I believe that
the way people discover you sometimes is how they're always
gonna hold you. Matt's been doing comedy for years. Yeah.
I think Matt was starting fourteen years old. He wasn't
doing quote unquote crowd work. He was doing the setup,
(41:26):
primise punts, and he was doing the jokes. He got
famous from the crowd work.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah. So then I heard about that.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah. So then if that's how you've seen him, you're like, oh,
he's just the crowworker.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Didn't you do it? Didn't he release a special just
on CrowdWork too? At some point he did.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
He's release two or three of them like that. Yeah,
he has one on Netflix that's crowd work.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah. Yeah, I think I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah. But it's it's like the ability to create and
find your way. This is the hardest thing to do,
the hardest thing to do is sell tickets.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, how would you describe your comedy though? For people
that don't know, I've seen him, you was, Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's why I wanted on the show.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yeah, I think my comedy is brilliant.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
It for people that don't know who Lance was is.
How would you describe your type of comedy is.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
It's it is high energy, intellectual warfare.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
That's how I view it. I'm trying to merge the
worlds of Tony Roberts and Dave Chappelle and find that
somewhere in the middle where you have this high energy,
can say any silly thing and also has some introspective,
thought provoking Damn, I ain't think about it like that
and try to mix all of that together. It's how
(42:41):
I view it. Yeah, I think I'm I think I'm
really entertaining because like I watch comedy and I can
break down. I understand comedy, so I can tell you, oh,
that's that. And there's some college that are really good
and they're boring. Yeah, and like I'll be watching myself
and I say, I just don't want to be boring.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I think that there's I think my rule with comedy
is that people I never say a comic is terrible.
I think that people laugh at what they can relate to.
I think that most people laugh at well, and there
are people that are just genuinely funny, but most people
laugh at what they can relate to. Yes, that's what
I've noticed.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yes, and a great comic will make you laugh at
things you can't relate to it all.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah, it's they can get you to laugh. But I
noticed that I tend if I look at the comics
that I'm like totally like, I'm a fan of this
particular comic, this particular comic. It's comic that's somewhat there's
some kind of familial familiar.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Cularity to get the words where I go ahead.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
But but I say that to say that because I
think there are comics that are genuinely funny, but to say, okay,
that comic needs to be a staple in my like yeah,
I want to continue. Yeah, I think there's got to
be a little bit more of a relationship with the
I can relate to the Bilberd's continual anger. I make
jokes around here all the time, like yo, I totally
(44:08):
relate to this guy and holding it in and then
you just randomly explode. I'm like, yo, I got you stop? Yeah,
or Sebastian, I keep foret I love it, but all
the toxic like anything toxic, sign me up like on that,
like Little Drain, I'm like, yo, I message you. But
I do still can appreciate all different types of comedy.
(44:31):
But I think even when I talk to other people,
it's like some people may like say Matt and be
like he's amazing, and it's okay. You probably find it
more relatable then yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah. I think what's happened in entertainment is people like
the person more than the product, so they want to
relate to the person. Yeah, And it's once I'm locked
in with the person, whatever the product, I must support
it because I like the person. It's especially with the
(45:01):
social media age, it's like people are literally just falling
in love with the personality and don't even know what
you do. They don't know what you're a comedian, singer, dance.
They just know that they like you.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Yeah, or they want to be I think with social media,
I think people tend to follow people they either want
to be like or don't. I still haven't grasped the
whole social media idolization because to me, it's like a
platform where you present whatever you want to present. It's
like a mirror. It's like a weird picture show. I
don't think there's a lot of authenticity there, but that's
(45:36):
where comedy is great, because there's a lot of authenticity.
For any fans that or comics that are trying to
look up to you, is that you have a phone on.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
It's vibrating, it's down there.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Oh my goodness. Before we close out, I would like
to see if you could give any advice to any comics,
young comics trying to be a comedian in the space
of the common business.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
I think you call it. Yeah, mom, no, just take
the plan B pill. Don't worry about it. Okay, all right,
m my mom be tripping.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Bro, this is I was like, literally, is he really
taking this phone call right now? But I have a
plan B. I think that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
I'm sorry my mom? Is she wild?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Your mom? Is that where you got it? That's Lance
Woods for you guys right there?
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Come on, mama, we got.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Lance. How how can people keep up with you and
find out how to catch tickets to your show?
Speaker 2 (46:36):
I'm sorry, So you asked me two questions.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I did your mom's plan B?
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna give the first if you
want to follow me. It's sir Lance Woods, s I
R L A N C E W O O D S.
That's Instagram, YouTube, TikTok x Twitter. What what's the other
ones that TikTok TikTok?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
And by the way, guys, make sure you go and
follow his YouTube. Okay, he's trying to grow it ground.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Grow my YouTube Instagram, Sir Lance Woods, please do that.
It would be really beneficial. All my tour stuff and
all the ticket stuff is in the link in the bio.
All of that cool.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Even after we wrap, he's getting on the road too.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so happy you have me here.
I really appreciate you letting me come here and cook
this delicacy.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
And I could tell it meant a lot to you.
It did. What advice would you give to someone, though, for.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Real, if I gave a comedian advice. Advice is hard
for me because it's too general. But what I will
say is, when you starting off, do the things that
you think are funny and not what you think other
people will think is funny. That's one of the main
things comic struggle with is day they try to do
what they think people will find funny. Versus what you
(47:50):
just find funny, because the same way you said Bill
Burr and the Anger, if you was like, people aren't
as angry as me, then you wouldn't even be able
to be yourself because that's how your people find is
by you being you. You know what I mean? If
you go try to they already got a version of that.
Just be But I also think comedy good. If you
(48:12):
a good comic, it'll teach you how to be yourself.
A lot of people don't know they.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
I think the comics are more funny when they're one
hundred percent yeah themselves, like unexcusably is that the right word, unapologetic,
unapologetically themselves, like.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
For sure, they are, for sure, But you gotta.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Even the ones you can't relate to are more funny
when you're like, oh my gosh, you can't believe this
comic thinks this way or what's funny?
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Right? I give everybody comic leeway for lack of a
better time. There's comics that say things that I one
hundred percent disagree with, but as a comic, he or
she has that right to express that. My only, it's
my only. It's a small request I'd be having just
make it funny. There's a lot of stuff going on
(48:57):
right now where it's just just for the shock or
just its just make it funny what you talk about.
Just make it funny. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to
come see us. I know you went through a lot
today and you didn't quite on us, So I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
I know that if y'all got an EBT card.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
I think I messed up on the bread though. I
think I did this brio bread and I was trying
to was way too fancy. Bread was fancy.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Bed was way too fancuse.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
I feel like the bread messed up your dish low key.
Like I if I wasn't eating tacos before this.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
It didn't mess it up.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
It just it was too thick, you know what I'm saying.
I feel like the cheaper bread would have worked better.
I was trying to be fancy for you, Lance. I
was excited about you.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
I appreciate it, you know what I mean. I'm excited
about being here. It was good, Yes, it was good.
Gods like I said it was. It was like two
pieces of bread back and maybe four switched together back
in the day, but it was still good and it
brought back memories. That's what it's about. Reminiscent your childhood,
where'd you come from? Forget you, what did you when
you broke? That's who you are?
Speaker 1 (50:03):
And remember Lance here didn't have his parents, didn't have
a real question. He's out by Thanks for tuning in.
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Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very
special guest, comedian actor Lance Woods is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you so much for having me. It smells good
in here. It does like there's been some cooking going.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
They would say this, there was a girl that made
us really good tacos. Yes, tacos.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
That what kind of tacos?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
They were ground turkey. But what made her tacos good
was she did this, like she fried the flower and
it was like a puffy like pastry type. It was
really good. It was like all snap, I had to
call cut.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I like it when people get creative with normal ingredients.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah. I never had tacos like that, but that.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Means like my tacos Sea, I fried the lettuce and
then and I seized all the cheese individually. People got
some things that they do a regular you never thought about.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Never. Never. But speaking of that, I have a slang
on the show that goes the broker the dish, the
better the story. Okay, And lately I get these dishes
and they're like twenty dollars thirty dollars worth of ingredients. Yes,
it does feed the whole family. But when we saw
your email, it was very simple. Go ahead and tell
our listeners what it is you're gonna have me eating today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you the dish first. This is
just some cinnamon toast, not just it is cinnamon toast.
The ingredients are simple. You need bread, you need butter,
you need sugar, you need cinnamon, You need a toaster
or a oven.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, there we go. I saw that and I was like,
oh yes, thank god, Oh my gosh. We ain't got
to do a whole lot of shop, but we could
just stop by.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You pick some stuff up.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
And this is stuff stuff you have in your fridg
at home guys. Cinnamon and sugar and butter. So really,
if you're out of bread, that's the only thing you
need to get. So that's it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
You're gonna get some bread.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, go ahead and start making the cinnamon toast.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So I'm gonna start cooking it right now.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Oh man, do I get out? Stay? Do I stay seated?
Do I?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Really, it's up to you. It's up to you. This
is your moment, This is your chef moment.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Can y'all hear me? You can see me still right, yeah,
and you were in alive you said what you oh duh.
So look first you take your bread. Damn, take your bread,
and you put it in the toaster. Now when you
now this is key. When you put it in the toaster,
you don't just drop it in the toaster. No, you
place it in the toaster. Show your bread some love,
(02:39):
you know what I mean. You make this dish with love.
It's like dropping your baby off at school. You don't
just you say hey, and you know what I mean.
Then you set the toaster for it's good. Depending on
how you like your toast. No, I mean, if you
want some light skin toast, you go a little more
that way. You want some dark skinned toast, you go
a little more that way. You know what I mean.
Right now we are that's right in the middle.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The comedy's already started.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I mean, so we're right in the middle. You know
what I mean on the colorism of the toast. Now,
everybody has a different method when it comes to pushing
the toast. To me, I like to use these two fingers.
This is my toaster fingers, you know what I mean.
So then when you take these fingers.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm sorry for all your listeners out there just wanting
to hear his backstory.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And you toast that, and you just let that happen.
You let that toast happen. That when the toast is toasted,
that's when you are anticipating. You feel me. You're getting
excited about what's about to happen. You know what I'm saying,
because oh, this is about to be fantastic. Now if
you can eat this without the bread being toasted, but
then it ain't the same.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I couldn't imagine anything without bread toasted, because.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You shouldn't imagine that. That's something you shouldn't imagine. You
got it. If it ain't toasted, it ain't the same.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Have you ever done it toasted?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, that sounds absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
No, I would never. I don't even so I used to.
I'm sorry, this is real to be going back to
the origins.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, that was what I was about to ask you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We're going back to the origins of being broke when
you I got grew up in a house. I had
two siblings. I'm in the middle. Yeah, I'm the favorite.
You got to feed three children, and so it's a
lot of bulk stuff, bread, cereal, snacks, big like just
filling things. Right, should have a lot of bread because
(04:25):
bread is cheap, and you can get a good amount
of bread and you make the sandwiches and all of that,
and then sometimes you might run out of meat for
the sandwich, the cheese or whatever. So now you gotta
get a different kind of creative when it comes. We
got all this bread, what we're gonna do with it?
You know what I mean? So I used to eat
bread balls. You ever had a bread ball? You want
to try one?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I'm down to try bread ball. Okay, No, never mind.
I think I know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I'm not gonna do anything. You're gonna do it. It's
a bread it's your bread ball.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
All right, let's do this. Okay, I think I know
what he's gonna make me do.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Take that bread. Welcome to there you go. Ball it up,
ball it up.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Not the crust, that's that's yo.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know what I mean. If you were a cruster,
or if you were not crust, that's on you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'm gonna take off the crust.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Okay, take off the crust.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm gonna be a special. I'm gonna be one of those. Mom,
don't waste the bread.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, I have.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
A feeling I'm not gonna the bread ball.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, you took a lot of the bread off when
you bring it. It was too late. No, that's not forwarding.
You got ballt there you there you go, Come on,
come on, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Where's our hand sanitizer?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, it's too late. Wasn't no hand sanitizer the nineties.
That's why our immune system is so good. These new
kids is salt. They need sanitizer for everything. Whatever happened
to eating a little flu covid? You're right, Covid.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Told us a lot about germs. Guys, we got the
bread ball.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There you go, yeah, yeah, mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I wonder if anyone's ever put like cinnamon and sugar
in the bread ball.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't know. I don't think. No. I just enjoy
the raw. But make sure you drink your water because
if not, it's going the gray ball gonna stay right there,
ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Did you come from a two parent household?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah? I came from to a parent household. That's simply
put you to private school. I had really good parents,
and Claren's parents had a real good marriage. It was
the two parent household but we had our issue.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
And they had a really good marriage too.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
No, they did not. They had a very interesting relationship.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They still married.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
No they are not.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh look she is piping over here, guys.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, boom.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So your parents separated at what age.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was grown? So my dad was around when I
was really small, and then something happened and they got
into something, and then he left and he came back,
probably when I was around ten something like that. He
was back for maybe a few months. They got married.
They got married right back, and then they stayed married
(07:02):
until I was probably like twenty something. I don't remember
the exact days. But then they stayed married. And but
it wasn't they shouldn't have been together.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, so they was fighting from day one, from day one. Okay,
so they had a couple of kids after they got
back together.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, we was all there already. Ooh yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh so he left and really came back.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
He left and came back. Okay, yeah, yeah, he left
and came back. They I don't know what happened, but
they got it.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Was you didn't ask.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No, I didn't care, Not that I didn't care, but
at that time, especially too, it was like staying in
a child's place. Back then, as an adult, kids weren't
allowed to ask questions, and.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Ask questions later that just it wasn't really really chang.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It just wasn't. I'm somebody who was grateful for a lot.
I was just grateful for the time, grateful for this.
I wasn't thinking like, why did you eat what we
wasn't good? I didn't think like that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's like, so you were happy to have them back, happy.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
To have them back, happy to have my mom, happy
to see them together in the whatever capacity that was.
And then when they broke up, I was happy that
they did that because I understood that it didn't make
sense to be together. I was watching it. You ever
had parents that argue a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I'm a mixed bread I was exposed to other problems.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, I was just yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I don't think people really are you Jamaican? My mom's Jamaican.
It's like a one.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Sided oh yeah, yeah. You just you gotta listen and
be like okay, all right, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Right, it's more like a silent okay.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah. Well it's crazy. Was that they would argue so much.
It almost was entertainment. Like when you young you just
get I mean, you're looking forward to Oh, it's about
to be some drama and it would be about anything.
That's how you That's how I knew that was supposed
really like they would argue over things, that's what.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You like, over how much butter to put on this
hot toast.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Now I'm gonna tell you. Now, I'm gonna show y'all
this is real. Back back to the basics. So first off,
she handed me a butter knife to spread the butter
on the toast. First mistake. This is how you gotta
do this.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You gotta take it's already melted by the way.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You gotta take this just like this, okay, or it
ain't right.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
The butter knife makes it not official. You take the
bread and you take the butter, and you spread it
just like that. That's how you gotta do it. You
see that. You see what you oh man? Then you
take the butter night and you clean up your mess
and you put that over there because they fanted.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They brought melted butter.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
All right, let me tell you something. They go all
out at eating with broke. But this is going back
to when you was broke, so you couldn't melt the butter.
You have to just let the butter sit out and
hope it melted and put it in the sun or something.
So then boom, that's how we did it. Like that.
You spread the butter on it just like that. It
looks like exactly exactly. Boom.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
All right, cool, Now we got the butter.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Boom. You see how butter that is.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Boom, a lot of butter.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Now you take your sugar, right yep, Okay, I'm gonna
do it. I'm gonna do it this way. Boom. You
gonna take the sugar.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It was the last time you had this, man at
least twenty something years. Boom, you're about to go down
and reminiscent plan Boom.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Then you take the sugar. That's a lot of sugar,
it is. And you know what's crazy is usually you
will put the cinnamon first. Oh, you will put the
cinnamon before the sugar because the cinnamon holds the sugar.
Everybody know that. Oh nope, okay, boom. Then you take
the cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Oh my goodness, that's a lot of cinnamon. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Boom. Now, back in the day, because this is your toast,
you would have took your finger and spread it properly.
But thank god we got some civilization now, So now
we're gonna we're gonna spread the sugar and the butter
and the cinnamon like that boom and put that on
there like that nice. Now try that and tell me
(10:48):
that's not taking But tell me that's not the most
beautiful delicacy in the hood you ever had.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You know, you're eating this too, right, I would.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Never eat that again in my life. But no, you
go ahead, and what are you talking about this?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I think I'm the only tester bunny rabbit around here.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I got you. I got you here.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay, cheers, don't give me your butter outside.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I got you. That tastes like seventh grade.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I think I'm better at this than you.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh yeah, how to do it?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Uh huh yeah, but this is really good. Hold on,
you cut two little sugar in mind loaded up?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Oh okay, okay, hold on, go ahead. Now, it's not
enough sugar. Too much sugar, ain't sweet enough. You know
what I'm saying there like that? Take another BikeE Now,
let me tell you about that.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Let me trying to shave up his dish.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Let me tell you about this. Right here, me and
my brothers, my cousins, because my house, our houses, everybody
would come to neighborhood. Everybody come kick them out. My brothers,
my cousin, my uncles, my young I got uncle. That's
my age. My mom is the oldest of nine children.
(12:13):
We'd come in my room, bring the toaster, bring the
We would literally bring the toaster in the room, bring
the toaster in the room, bring the loaf of bread,
bring the butt. And we were just sitting there watching
TV making this, eating it like this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Was the snack.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
This was what it was. But you get full because
it's bread. We're getting full off this. We this used
to be like we look forward to yo. You didn't
bring the toaster. With what you're doing, Go get the toaster.
You mean nothing to be going back and forth to
the kitchen. Were playing video games. We're watching Jerry Springer,
Jenny Jones, Martin the Box remember the Box, right music?
(12:52):
But and we was eating this. That's how we was
getting down.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Take me back, now, So you come from this parent household,
where does you start to look towards the comedy direction?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
At what age I started comedy when I was I
don't know what I know what age I started going
into comedy clubs. I was like twenty when I started comedy.
I started in my church. So what happened?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
While you need some water that dry ass toast.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I don't need no water, I need a whooping. I'm
gonna go back. I need to go all the way back.
I need to go clean my room or something. This
would just take me back to it. Oh wow, I
need some chores, you know what.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'm Oh wow, it's nostalgic.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's nostalgic, and you ain't got what the TV put
your springer on. Let me call it. I'm gonna go
home and pie in a bit. So I used to
imitate my pastor. I come from. My pastors were animated,
So I used to be at the house and I
would just imitate him to my mom and my sister's joking.
At this point, my brother had already left for college,
but I would just be imitating him, just joking around
(14:00):
and my sister my mom would laugh, and that was
enough for me. And then my mom at the time,
she was over the church anniversary. She would put the
programs together for the anniversaries. She said, I'm gonna have
you do that at the church. I'm not doing that
at the church, you know what I mean. No, And
then so at the anniversary, she put me. I didn't
know she put me on on the program. So then
(14:21):
she say, whoever, I don't remember who was am seeing
the event that night, but they she say like this,
they say, and next up we got brother Lance. That's
how it because I wasn't I wasn't like, I wasn't
talking to you if I wasn't like the life of
the party. I was really like quiet, real quiet, you
know what I mean. So when they read they was
everybody was like because they didn't even say what I
(14:43):
was doing. It was just that I was coming to
the stage. So I go up and all I remember
is the first thing I said was you'all know how
pastor be on Sunday? And then I just went into it.
And when I tell you, everybody in the church was
like hollering, like my pastor was like on the floor
with real tears coming out of like it was real tears,
you know what I mean. Somebody jumped up, running and
(15:07):
rant like it was a fire, Like it was insane.
And that was the first time I had ever done
anything like that on a stage. I wasn't thinking I
was going to be a comedian at the time. Yeah,
I just thought that was fun.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Now was that? Did that then? Lights some kind of
spark an you right there?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It did, But I didn't know how to go from
that to a comedian.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
What did your mom say after that performance?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
She was like, oh my god, that was so funny.
She was like you was like, there's some wrong with
you boy. She was just kind of like that. But
I started comedy before Instagram. There was no Instagram. I
don't remember if I think YouTube was out, but it
wasn't like it is now.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
My point of saying, this is the only and I
didn't grow up in LA or New York. I grew
up in Sacramento, So you didn't you only see comedians
on TV. Like I think it's somebody's like they want
to start comedy now, they'll go on Instagram and they
got all of these examples of comedians or people who
are doing humorous things. But like, oh, I can do that,
(16:12):
But that's not how it was. This was when I
did that at the church. That was probably two thousand
and six, maybe or something like that, two thousand and five.
I started comedy in ten, twenty eleven, when I first
started getting on stage, you know what I mean. So
(16:33):
this was eight years earlier or something like that, six
years or something like that. Yeah, I didn't know. I
just knew that was real cool.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And did you start gravitating towards watching comedy tapes?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Though? I always did I start. I think I probably
started watching more, but I always grew up watching comedy.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, So take me to the first time where you
start to pursue comedy.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Okay. So it goes back to the church. If so
much of my story is rooted in the church, That's
something I'm real grateful for. Because my church, my pastor
would try to nurture gifts. If he's seeing you had
a gift, he would try to create things or nurture
it to to help get you to where you can
(17:19):
get to. Oh, I do the thing at the church.
So now going forward, every time there was an event
at the church, they would just ask me to do something.
Can you just host it? Like something?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Just so you went from the kid that they were
like super quiet, So now this is the kid they
want to mc.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
That's worse than this. So I used to do the
sound at the church. Wow, Like I used to because
I always knew this was always knew I was supposed
to be a star. I always knew I was supposed
to be someone impactful, but I ran from it. I
used to always try to be behind the scenes. So
instead of doing I would say, I do the sound,
I do the I'll do the I would hold the camera,
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but I got real bad vision. I got contacts in.
But if I took my contacts out, yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I'll be holding up three fingers that you say you
ain't see nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, if I was, you'd be my color. If I
took my contacts out, it's bad. But I never wore glasses.
I just used to thug it out. I didn't wear
contacts back then either. I just used to just walk
around blind. So I used to be doing the sound
at the church, but I couldn't really see. So the
pastor would be like telling me to turn stuff up,
and I'm just looking and he's like, yeah, I'm like
thumbs out. I am doing a good job. It was bad.
(18:30):
I hold I did somebody's wedding and I was holding
the camera, but I was all over the place because
it was bad. I was just trying to do all
these things, just running from my gift right back to
the church. So he would do these things like host
this event. We're doing this, can you host it? So
then he created this first Friday's event. It was like
a talent show, like people come through and I was
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hosting that and that was another time where I just
got to just be on It was just me really
being on stage in front of people, figuring that out,
getting comfortable with that. So now fast forward, we're going
into New Year's Eve, going into the year twenty ten.
Now a lot of churches have services on New Year's
(19:12):
Eve to go and you don't got to be out
there in the streets for New Years. You can come
bring the new year in with the law. Yes, when
I get your years started in the House of the
Lord like that right. So then my pastor's son, Ishmael
called me. He said, hey, can you do some comedy
at the New Year's event?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And I was like, okay, how did it go?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It went great. But this was my first time ever
writing jokes. Everything I did before that was me making
fun of people at the church, are imitating people that
This was the first time I wrote jokes that had
nothing to do.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
With the church, and it had to be PG too.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
For sure. Yeah. Yeah, but my church wasn't PG. Never mind,
that's another story. Listen, we're not gonna talk about that
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So you wrote these jokes and that they landed.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They landed very well. These jokes. I don't do them now,
but I could if I think back to the jokes.
I was always good writing, always understood jokes. I understood
what a punch sign was supposed to be. I understood.
I just I had a good understanding of jokes. That
was the first time I wrote jokes that was just
like this, I'm not gonna I don't want to. I
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don't want to tell jokes about sister, her or brother.
I just want to write jokes. So that was that.
That went, well, that's November going, and how.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Old are you at that time?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Twenty twenty two, twenty three, okay, okay, twenty two. Yeah,
so then that's going into the new year. Now, this
was this is crazy. My church is directly across the
street from a comedy club.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh, the signs are lining up for you very directly, like.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
This, What is up with this?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Mic is not feeling you today? I don't know what
is up with it?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Yeah, it happens But the same way with this is
how close to like walk across the street and you're
at the comedy club. But I never knew that because
I never knew what a comedy club was.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So at some point you acknowledge this comedy club.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I acknowledged the comedy club.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Is this the first club you actually go into as ever?
Stand up?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And then how did you do over there? You want
the full story, I want the story where you bombed.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That story didn't happen for a while. Wow. Yeah, the
bomb story happened for sure, but it didn't happen at
that point.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Now, so you do you start doing comedy in this club?
Do you stay at this club for a long time
before you sit in?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
You know this the Sacramento punchline. So I go there
because they have a showcase once a month, So June second,
I go the week the month before May May fifth,
It was the first Wednesday of every month. It was
May fifth, but it was single to mile, so they
moved it to May twelfth, which is my brother and
my uncle's birthday. These dates are all significant to me.
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That's my first time I ever went to go watch
live comedy. So I go to the punchline and I
go watch live comedy for the first time. I sit,
I'm right in the middle, second row, and I'm just watching,
and I'm like in awe, like watching everybody was amazing.
I couldn't believe, like how they was able to do this.
I know all these guys now and some of them
weren't amazing, but to me at the time at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah, this is incredible, you.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Know what I mean. So I said, I'm gonna come
back and do it next month. So now next month.
Now we're at June second. So I pull up, I
knock on the door. Doors open at seventh, show started
and I get there six fifth, I knock on the door. Hey,
I'm here. I'm here for the comedy show. She was like, okay,
come back in ten minutes when we open. I said, okay,
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I'm wanting the comedian. And she said, okay, come back
in ten minutes. Won't be open. I said, okay, cool,
I come back at seven o'clock. I'm here and she's okay.
Let me. There's the manager and I say, hey, how
you doing man, I'm here for the show tonight and
he said at who are you? I said, ma'am I'm
Lames Woods, and he was like, I don't know you,
and I said, okay, well, how do I sign up
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for the show? He said, there ain't no sign up
for the show. If I don't know you, I don't
You're not That's not how it works. So then I
was like, oh okay, and then I just left. So
I went back to my car. But then I'm like,
I can't leave. I told all these people I was
going to be at the show tonight and.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You was advertising the show that you weren't even on first.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I didn't know no better. I just I go on
the website. They said it's a show, you got a showcase.
I'm Okaylyn, what do you do?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You go back?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I go back because this is once again before instead before,
like Facebook is a thing. But I've told everybody, yeah,
listen to me, like yo, this is what we're doing
this tonight. So I'm I can't leave. I don't got
everybody's number. So I go back and I'm talking to
him like, hey man, I talked I'm be on the show.
Then I just need five minutes. And he was just
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like he would say real mean things walk away. You'd
be like everybody say they funny to their bomb and
then what then he walk away. I'm just standing there.
Damn what happens after the bomb? You know what I mean? Yeah,
I'm processing all of this. So then twenty minutes go
by thirty Now it was seven thirty, and I'm like,
hey man, I just need five minutes of your time, bro.
So we're standing by the bar. Now, this is what
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the entrance is. So he would come by the bar
say something, walk away. So now let's say it's seven forty.
Show start at eight o'clock, seven thirty five. People keep
coming into the show saying, A Lance can't wait to
see you, and hey, do your think the night? Bro?
A Lance? Hey do? Hey Bro, I'm proud of and
he's this was a lesson I learned early about selling tickets. Yeah,
(24:39):
I didn't know nothing about no guest, less than nothing.
Everybody who can to send me bought a ticket. So
by the time it's seven point fifty five, the club
is packed and it's probably sixty people that came to
see me, which is sixty people. Sixty people. Yeah, oh yeah,
it's a lot for you. He had. I didn't know
no better, you know what I mean? This is my
first introduction into show business. I didn't know. I had
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just sold a bunch of tickets and people came to
see me, and your hands are tied at this point.
So then at seven fifty five he said, okay, you
got five minutes. You're going up first. Jesus, I said, okay,
I didn't even know I was supposed to be nervous
to go first. Yeah, you know what I mean. I
was so like angry because I had a bad temper.
It's better now, but especially at that time, I was
(25:23):
real like short. So I'm angry because how you talking
to me? You know what I mean? And I didn't
tell nobody who came to see me what was going on,
because then it would have been a group problem. Yeah,
I mean, so I'm trying to just be chill. And
so then he come back to me eight o'clock he said, okay,
you're going up third first, he said the first thing.
He said, you're going third. So then there's a host,
(25:43):
two comics, and then me the comic that goes on
before me. He was probably on stage for seven minutes.
I don't think anybody smiled, not a smile. Yeah, And
that made me more angry because it's do better, and
I gotta fight for five minutes and he just get
to go on with No, he ain't put on no fight,
(26:05):
and you let this have it. So I go on stage.
It went really well. It went really well my first time,
but like it was, the jokes I were telling were funny.
I wasn't a great performance my first time at a
comedy club, but I still remember the jokes I told.
I remember like they were quality jokes for my first time.
And then from then do you just start to meet
the comics and go places and figure out stuff and oh,
(26:29):
this guy has a room over here, and this guy
has a room over here. Now if you want to
hear the bomb, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, I don't want to hear the bomb. So you
so after that club, you do well? Do you start
to now understand the process of going after a certain
title in the club and pitching yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
No, I still don't see this is what I thought.
I thought it went well, and I was like, so,
am I supposed to wait for HBO to call? Or
do I need to send them the tape from tonight
because clearly they need to know who I am. Did
y'all see what I just did? Yeah, that's how I'm thinking.
I didn't know how none of this stuff works. Yeah,
so I'm like, oh not Yeah, Chris Rocket is funny,
(27:05):
but I was funny too, So clearly we should be
working together. That's how they're supposed to work. What are
we talking about? So I was just I didn't know.
I didn't know, Like I ain't know. I was at
that point, I'm real like just inquisitive, like I'm trying
to figure out what am I supposed to be doing
because I don't know nothing?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
So who are you going to find out? What's your
next play?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
The comics I met that night. I remember one comics
is friend of mine still, his name is Miles Weber.
I was like, yo, how do you make money doing this?
And he was like, hell if I know?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Like that was like, how long do you think? How
long was your struggle for at least not making money?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Not making money? My first time on stage that was
June second. The next year, November second was my last
day work on a day job.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh so within a year you were able to fully
support yourself off comedy.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I was able to figure it out. I wouldn't say fully, no, yeah, yes,
fully supported myself. I had to change some things. I
had to learn how to manage my money different. Yeah,
I had to learn what not to do. Okay, maybe
I don't need that. Do I really need cable? I
don't think.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
So I really started living on a budget.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Started living on a budget, you know what I mean,
start dating lesser women. But you just have to change it.
You gotta change some things up. I mean, look, so
you're not in a budget.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's hilarious. Did you start dating women that had more
money too?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Did you really?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Did that help you at some point in your journey?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, but not like that. It was what really helped
was I learned how much stuff I don't need. Yeah,
Like I just learned. Like what I realized is the
thing that we get caught up in is we when
we make money, everything we call everything we get cost
like constant money. So it's like I haven't had a
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card since my first car. I've never had another car.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Really no, I'm like very highly, I'm a car no queen. Yeah,
and every time I'm about to tire, I'm like, nope,
put me in.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah another one. Yeah, But that's how the cycle work.
So I'm like people pay bills on iPhones like they
want the new phone. So then they add yeah, yeah,
and it's know. If I'm going to get the new phone,
just go buy it. If I can't afford it, then
I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Smart you live within your means, which is a good,
very good thing. I can't imagine Sacramento and correct me
if I'm wrong. You get to go up that many
nights or the times in one night?
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Why not? All right, So I'll tell you this story.
I'm trying to find comedy clubs and things now at
this point in my head, you can never tell the
same joke twice. This is what I believe. So I thought,
once you told that joke, you got to tell new jokes.
So every time.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm running at a different speed.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I didn't know. And at that point I was just
so excited. Everything I thought was fun I wrote everything
I thought was funny. If I just wrote it all down,
I'm just gonna try it on stage.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
But how many clubs are you averaging a night in Sacramento?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So that that's what I was gonna tell you, But
I'll speed through it. When I was really getting good,
I was on stage at a minimum twelve times.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
A week, twelve times a week. Yeah, in Sacramento they
have that many clubs you can get up that. How
what's the distance between the clubs though, all within already
thirty miles that's pretty so like almost thirty minutes apart
or within. Yeah, so what because I'm saying this because
if you're a comic in New York, you can get
(30:38):
reps up that right, most of your comedy. The more
reps you do, the better you get, right, even though
you're writing new material on the regular. Clearly, I'm just
trying to figure out for you to at least maintain
yourself how much repping you're doing to get to the
point where you're semi sustainable within a year.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
So that's what it was. It was. There was three
comedy clubs, like Major Club. You had the Punchline, You
had Tommy T's, and then you had Laps Unlimited. Tommy
T's has since shut the one that Sacramento has, but
Punchline and Laps Unlimited are still there. So those were
the three clubs. Then you had there's a spot called
the Touch of Class, like a black Spy. It's like
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it's like a nationally known amongst comics. This was like
a spywork. Every black comic had came through at some point.
And I don't know if you ever seen Kevin Hart
Heart of the City. He shot at a Touch of Class.
The first episode ever was shot in Sacramento. Touch a Class.
So that was on Sundays. But then there was another
spot called on the Y, a little bar they did comedy.
(31:39):
You did that, so I would go to And then
there was a spot called the Comedy Spot. They did
mostly improv, but they did stand up too, so I
would go, Okay, on Sunday, I could hit the comedy spot,
I could hit on the Y, and I hit the
Touch of Class.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
So that's three on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
So how long did you work a Sacramento for a
year or did you When did you start to say
I'm going to move out of the Sacramento zone.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
To start you mean to start to travel outside of
Sack to the shows.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Do you still live in Sacramento? You live in La.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I live in l A. Yeah, okay, but I just
moved to l A.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Like how long ago? Oh okay, so you're new here? Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
But I've been coming to La so long.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yeah, it was like, what I'm trying. What I'm trying
to get a lay of the land, because got twenty
more minutes. Is I want to see, like how long
it took for you to get that consistency and what
markets did you have to work to get that consistency up?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
When I the first thing, there's a guy, one of
the first not one of the first guys whoever took
me on the road, named Daniel Dugar. I bury you
and he was like, Yo, you gotta go to grow,
You got to go to grow. So then he had
gave me his number one time. And I'm not the
best at calling people. I had somebody's number and I
(32:59):
just want to use I'll be trying to get better
at that. So I remember I called him one day
and I was like, Yo, what should I be doing there?
How can I do this? And then he's big on
like wardrobe. He's like a real sharp he always with
his suits. He was like, man, your wardrobe is important.
He talk. So then me and him we just went shopping.
He's just like, yo, let's just go shopping, bro. Just
so I started wearing suits and all that. That wasn't
(33:20):
really my thing, but it was just something. But he
was like, Yo, why don't you start. You can come.
I got these shows. You can come on the road.
There's these things called triple runs that's on the West coast,
and it'll be like I'm talking about all of these
small little Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington state, and you get
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in a car and just drive to all of these spots.
But just like this show might pay three hundred, this
one might pay one fifty, this one might pay five.
And then so you do that for a week and
you might come home with a thousand dollars. If you
got some merchandise, you might come home with two thousand,
fifteen hundred, whatever the case is. Right, So that I
started to do that, Okay, I would just get in
(34:02):
the car and just drive, okay, and just go pick
up nine hund here, three hundred here, one point fifty here,
sometimes get a room time, sleep in the car. Just really.
But I was having the most fun because I was
doing I wanted to do. So if I got a
drive thirteen dollars, I don't mind, because I'm finna go
see the most beautiful woman in the world. You know
what I mean. Comedy?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh okay, wait, what so you're doing all of this
and maintaining a budget. What are you doing with your
daytime though there's no hustling during the day, You're just
like living life and writing comics.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, it was just I was doing regular stuff, went
to the gym playing basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Where does that acting enter?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So I started acting once again. I'm at a show.
We're doing. My man Greg Vaughn had a a compedy do,
a golf tournament and a comedy show before the day before.
So we're doing the comedy show. It's me, Tony Roberts,
Chris Spencer, alex Tommy, Buddy Lewis, Flex Alexander. Yeah, that's
(35:06):
the show. This is in Sacramento two. So we do
that show and after the show, this guy comes to
talk to me. He says, hey, man, you're really funny.
My friend is a movie director and I just want
you to meet him. Okay, So he says to me,
he's just I just think you should meet him. I said, okay.
He said, He said, yeah, are you gonna be at
the golf tournament tomorrow. I said, yeah, I'll be there.
(35:26):
He said, he's gonna be there. I'll make sure that
you guys meet the golf tournament. I said, okay. Cool.
So then the next day golf tournament. This guy's name
is Nick Leasure, film director. So I meet Nick and
he was just like, yeah, Brian, here just here. You're
really funny bro, And yeah, bro, we should just let's
figure out we can work together. I want to see
you perform. When do you perform it. I just happen
to have a show that night at the Tommy t
(35:47):
that is no longer open. I was like, I'll be
at Tommy T's tonight. He was like, I'm coming through.
So he come to Tommy T's. He's bro. That was great, bro.
I just yeah, we gotta figure something out. The next
within the week he called. He sent me like a
script and he was like, I want you to read
for this part right here, or read this part and
then just send me like a video of you.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So then I'm like all right, cool. So then I
send it to him and then he's yeah, come out.
I want you to come out of the office. Come out.
Office is yeah, bro, we start filming. We start filming
in two muths or in a mother or somebody else.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Before he gave you the role, did you ever entertain
the idea of acting for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I never entertained the idea, but I've never done any
of the steps that would show that.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And you didn't go to acting school.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I did none of those things. I did none of
those things. But it was like, that's how it came
to me. And this was like this movie was like Starr, Mario,
ven People's and Glenn Plumbers and it was like, I'm
with seasoned actors.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Now did you like the whole experience?
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Absolutely? Acting. Acting is a it's a different sport. It's
like a totally different sport. But I love acting because
you get to be someone that's not yourself, you know
what I mean. You get to disappear into something else.
It's a different it's a different muscle, Like you challenge
yourself differently, you know what I mean. You read the
part and you got to say, Okay, what would the
character do? Not? What would I do? What would I
(37:08):
how would he say this? Yeah? Yeah, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Now, now that you've experienced both sports, which one do
you like more?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Still?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Comedy?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Comedy? Yeah, I got you got more control over the comedy.
This is I love acting, though I'm getting more into
the acting space now because I'm first off I'm a
comic first, I'm a comedian.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
So everything you're very funny, by the way, extremely funny.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I appreciate you, thank you. But everything I do to
bring you to my comedy, you know what I mean?
So I can go do one hundred movies. My goal,
one of my main goals is for you to now
come see me do comedy. Right. So it's like Denzel
just said, he just said, a theater is an actors medium.
(37:55):
Film is a director's medium. The stage is a comedians medium.
You know what I'm saying. So no matter what I
do in front of the camera, they might take it
and edit it different and that's not what I did.
But that's what they're supposed to do. This is their thing.
But the stage is my thing. This is how This
(38:16):
is the purest of my thoughts and how I can
break it down. This is without the edit, without the cut.
This is how I feel. I said it, you know
what I mean. So, yeah, comedy, comedy always be first.
You never say always, but I feel comfortable saying what.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Would you say is the downside of being in this industry?
You've been in it for over twenty years, i'd imagine,
or almost twenty almost thirteen thirteen, yeah, thirteen.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Fourteen, my bad, fourteen fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, what would you say is the downside of it?
If you could say there.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, like to say a downside, I'll say it affects
relationships for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But give me like a romantic relationship all of them?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
But yeah, for sure, all of them, all of them.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Why do you say all of them.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
You missed so much?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Do you have children?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
No, I'll be pulling out, but saying why I pulled
this out to toast. You got to you got to
get in the pot of there and.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Now, okay, he's got a strong pull out game.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
You want to eat this sentiment, you got to pull
it out, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Always wrap it up to guys, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
If you wrap it up. Do you really believe that?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
So it'd be affecting all relationships as a family members
because you said all relationships or relationships.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Just I can't. I missed all the birthday parties. They
do it on the weekend on the road, you know
what I mean. So it's but I think even that
can change later. It is because I've been on the
road consistently now six years.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Was mastering online social media tough for you.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah, I don't think I've mastered it.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
But but you're Your following is pretty good though, So
it looks like you're starting to get a hang of
the algorithms.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
The following is growing up. I understand how to be
funny on the internet, which is different.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It's a different type of comedy.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Stage, which is different than being funny here. Everything is
a different kind of thing to be funny. But I
will say online, I think I need to grow my
YouTube page. I need to get some long form content. Damn.
And I got probably got like eight thousand YouTube subscribers.
(40:24):
That's still pretty good without ever trying. Yeah, I've never
tried to build a page.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
Why do you feel it's important to build a YouTube
page though?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Because I feel like everybody in the world uses YouTube?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Do you think that?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
And then from the babies to the eldest, does.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
The social media play a role into how much you
get paid?
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Now? Absolutely, that's it's the new television. It's like the
last star that was comedian who was like from a movie,
do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, that's a good point. What do you think of
these like comics like Matt Rife, that's.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
My friend that's my guy. I love that guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
It at that, then I'm not gonna say nothing past it.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Matt, MAT's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I think you think he's funny.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Man's hilarious. This is what I believe. I believe that
the way people discover you sometimes is how they're always
gonna hold you. Matt's been doing comedy for years. Yeah.
I think Matt was starting fourteen years old. He wasn't
doing quote unquote crowd work. He was doing the setup,
(41:26):
primise punts, and he was doing the jokes. He got
famous from the crowd work.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah. So then I heard about that.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah. So then if that's how you've seen him, you're like, oh,
he's just the crowworker.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Didn't you do it? Didn't he release a special just
on CrowdWork too? At some point he did.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
He's release two or three of them like that. Yeah,
he has one on Netflix that's crowd work.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah. Yeah, I think I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah. But it's it's like the ability to create and
find your way. This is the hardest thing to do,
the hardest thing to do is sell tickets.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, how would you describe your comedy though? For people
that don't know, I've seen him, you was, Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's why I wanted on the show.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yeah, I think my comedy is brilliant.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
It for people that don't know who Lance was is.
How would you describe your type of comedy is.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
It's it is high energy, intellectual warfare.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
That's how I view it. I'm trying to merge the
worlds of Tony Roberts and Dave Chappelle and find that
somewhere in the middle where you have this high energy,
can say any silly thing and also has some introspective,
thought provoking Damn, I ain't think about it like that
and try to mix all of that together. It's how
(42:41):
I view it. Yeah, I think I'm I think I'm
really entertaining because like I watch comedy and I can
break down. I understand comedy, so I can tell you, oh,
that's that. And there's some college that are really good
and they're boring. Yeah, and like I'll be watching myself
and I say, I just don't want to be boring.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I think that there's I think my rule with comedy
is that people I never say a comic is terrible.
I think that people laugh at what they can relate to.
I think that most people laugh at well, and there
are people that are just genuinely funny, but most people
laugh at what they can relate to. Yes, that's what
I've noticed.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yes, and a great comic will make you laugh at
things you can't relate to it all.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yeah, it's they can get you to laugh. But I
noticed that I tend if I look at the comics
that I'm like totally like, I'm a fan of this
particular comic, this particular comic. It's comic that's somewhat there's
some kind of familial familiar.
Speaker 2 (43:44):
Cularity to get the words where I go ahead.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
But but I say that to say that because I
think there are comics that are genuinely funny, but to say, okay,
that comic needs to be a staple in my like yeah,
I want to continue. Yeah, I think there's got to
be a little bit more of a relationship with the
I can relate to the Bilberd's continual anger. I make
jokes around here all the time, like yo, I totally
(44:08):
relate to this guy and holding it in and then
you just randomly explode. I'm like, yo, I got you stop? Yeah,
or Sebastian, I keep foret I love it, but all
the toxic like anything toxic, sign me up like on that,
like Little Drain, I'm like, yo, I message you. But
I do still can appreciate all different types of comedy.
(44:31):
But I think even when I talk to other people,
it's like some people may like say Matt and be
like he's amazing, and it's okay. You probably find it
more relatable then yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah. I think what's happened in entertainment is people like
the person more than the product, so they want to
relate to the person. Yeah, And it's once I'm locked
in with the person, whatever the product, I must support
it because I like the person. It's especially with the
(45:01):
social media age, it's like people are literally just falling
in love with the personality and don't even know what
you do. They don't know what you're a comedian, singer, dance.
They just know that they like you.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Yeah, or they want to be I think with social media,
I think people tend to follow people they either want
to be like or don't. I still haven't grasped the
whole social media idolization because to me, it's like a
platform where you present whatever you want to present. It's
like a mirror. It's like a weird picture show. I
don't think there's a lot of authenticity there, but that's
(45:36):
where comedy is great, because there's a lot of authenticity.
For any fans that or comics that are trying to
look up to you, is that you have a phone on.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
It's vibrating, it's down there.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Oh my goodness. Before we close out, I would like
to see if you could give any advice to any comics,
young comics trying to be a comedian in the space
of the common business.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
I think you call it. Yeah, mom, no, just take
the plan B pill. Don't worry about it. Okay, all right,
m my mom be tripping.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
Bro, this is I was like, literally, is he really
taking this phone call right now? But I have a
plan B. I think that's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
I'm sorry my mom? Is she wild?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Your mom? Is that where you got it? That's Lance
Woods for you guys right there?
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Come on, mama, we got.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Lance. How how can people keep up with you and
find out how to catch tickets to your show?
Speaker 2 (46:36):
I'm sorry, So you asked me two questions.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
I did your mom's plan B?
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah? Okay, So I'm gonna give the first if you
want to follow me. It's sir Lance Woods, s I
R L A N C E W O O D S.
That's Instagram, YouTube, TikTok x Twitter. What what's the other
ones that TikTok TikTok?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
And by the way, guys, make sure you go and
follow his YouTube. Okay, he's trying to grow it ground.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Grow my YouTube Instagram, Sir Lance Woods, please do that.
It would be really beneficial. All my tour stuff and
all the ticket stuff is in the link in the bio.
All of that cool.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Even after we wrap, he's getting on the road too.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so happy you have me here.
I really appreciate you letting me come here and cook
this delicacy.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
And I could tell it meant a lot to you.
It did. What advice would you give to someone, though, for.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Real, if I gave a comedian advice. Advice is hard
for me because it's too general. But what I will
say is, when you starting off, do the things that
you think are funny and not what you think other
people will think is funny. That's one of the main
things comic struggle with is day they try to do
what they think people will find funny. Versus what you
(47:50):
just find funny, because the same way you said Bill
Burr and the Anger, if you was like, people aren't
as angry as me, then you wouldn't even be able
to be yourself because that's how your people find is
by you being you. You know what I mean? If
you go try to they already got a version of that.
Just be But I also think comedy good. If you
(48:12):
a good comic, it'll teach you how to be yourself.
A lot of people don't know they.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
I think the comics are more funny when they're one
hundred percent yeah themselves, like unexcusably is that the right word, unapologetic,
unapologetically themselves, like.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
For sure, they are, for sure, But you gotta.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Even the ones you can't relate to are more funny
when you're like, oh my gosh, you can't believe this
comic thinks this way or what's funny?
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Right? I give everybody comic leeway for lack of a
better time. There's comics that say things that I one
hundred percent disagree with, but as a comic, he or
she has that right to express that. My only, it's
my only. It's a small request I'd be having just
make it funny. There's a lot of stuff going on
(48:57):
right now where it's just just for the shock or
just its just make it funny what you talk about.
Just make it funny. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to
come see us. I know you went through a lot
today and you didn't quite on us, So I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
I know that if y'all got an EBT card.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
I think I messed up on the bread though. I
think I did this brio bread and I was trying
to was way too fancy. Bread was fancy.
Speaker 2 (49:26):
Bed was way too fancuse.
Speaker 1 (49:27):
I feel like the bread messed up your dish low key.
Like I if I wasn't eating tacos before this.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
It didn't mess it up.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
It just it was too thick, you know what I'm saying.
I feel like the cheaper bread would have worked better.
I was trying to be fancy for you, Lance. I
was excited about you.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
I appreciate it, you know what I mean. I'm excited
about being here. It was good, Yes, it was good.
Gods like I said it was. It was like two
pieces of bread back and maybe four switched together back
in the day, but it was still good and it
brought back memories. That's what it's about. Reminiscent your childhood,
where'd you come from? Forget you, what did you when
you broke? That's who you are?
Speaker 1 (50:03):
And remember Lance here didn't have his parents, didn't have
a real question. He's out by Thanks for tuning in.
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