The Pulse: Memphian and Comedian Jae Henderson (1)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, everybody, all right, it is the pulse. I
am Stormy. You know what we do. We keep our
fingertips on the pulse of our community. Welcome in, Welcome in,
welcome in. All right. We got a special guest on
the show, Ladies and gentlemen, all the way from Memphis, Tennessee. Yes, ma'am,
give it up for a comedian, J Henderson.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Thank you for having me, Stormy.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
You're welcome. How was that introduction? I love it? Jay.
So you've been in these seats, in this company where
you have been the person interviewing people.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
True. I started out in radio. Radio was my first
job after college. Okay, where I was you know, it
was Clear Channel back then, and so I was working
as the assistant director of community Affairs. I started doing
an internship at w D I A with the famous
Davis brothers. Okay, I first started at WDA and once

(00:59):
I go graduated college, I was put on K ninety
seven and I had a talk show on the weekends
called on Point.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I had an airshift right before I went on that
morning at nine am, did a one hour talk show
with Jeff Lee at first and then world famous Kylin
and Jeff left the station.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Okay, wow, how was that?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I loved it?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
On Point was the first show in Memphis in the
mid South that was geared towards young people, so we
talked about things that involved teenagers and young adults. I
had a group of young people I called the Team
Panel that I met with once a month who told
me what was going on in their world. Wow, and
it was shocking. I mean probably not now, but that

(01:45):
was too.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
When was that? Oh I graduated college and oh that was.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Two thousand, Wow, two thousand, I believe. Yeah, And so yeah,
how long was the show? Was it?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
On that? I was the host for almost I think
like three years and when I left, Jeanine Gordon took over.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Okay, okay, so that's where you got your name, Jay Henderson.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Jay Henderson. I was the baby girl, Jay Henderson. I
was the youngest person at the station. And then I
sounded really young on top of that, sounded like I
was in high school.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Okay, so probably still do. And that's probably why the
young people related to you.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, we had a lot of fun together. And then
I was still young myself. I just graduated from college.
Well you've always went twenty one?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, I looked. I looked like kid too.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I go into schools, they would tell me to take
my hat off because they thought I was one of
the students.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, So Jay, you went from there. You started here
at this company, and then you you left here, and
then you went where did you go?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I went to Trust Marketing?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I became in an account executive for them, doing PR
and marketing, working with several organizations in the city. It
was government Bev Johnson, Yes, yes, okay, yes. They took
me under their wing after I graduated from grad school
and taught me the marketing PR business is a great

(03:11):
place to be.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
What was it like working under Beverly and Howard? Because
I mean, they're.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Both amazing people. You know, they're two of the movers
and shakers.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I know, it's what I'm saying. You got and and
it was working not intern. I started out.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
As an intern and then when it was over, they
they offered me a position.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Wow, yeah, I mean to work for Beverly Robertson. It's
like good.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Beverly was still at the you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Beverly was still at the museum when Howard handled the
day to day.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
At the marketing agency.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
But I mean we, I mean we did some amazing
things working with city officials as well as private enterprise,
just helping them launch their campaigns and get the word
about out of what they were doing. So it was
it was great time in my life.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah. Wow, what a start. I mean, moves and Checkers.
You started just you came in hot, as them kids.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Say, I guess you could say that.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
But every job I've had, I've realized was preparing me
for the next step. Because being here in radio and
meeting all the people.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
In media, radio, television, news.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
When I stepped into PR and marketing, all I had
to do sometimes was make a phone call and if
they didn't know me, they had heard of me.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
So it made the conversation.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
About what we needed and what we were doing for
our clients a lot easier to have.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay, so you just you fell into it. I know
that at some point you did your own thing.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
So the market tanked around two thousand and five, Howard
tried to fire me. I started crying. He said, never mind,
never mind, we figured some out. They say, crying doesn't
solve anything.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I can baby, Bobby, OJ you said all the time,
if you want something from a man.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Cry because you know business, You know the first thing
companies do when business is slow is they pull their marketing.
So business wasn't what it was, and so he was like,
I don't think we have you know we're able to
keep you at this time, We're going to let you go.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
So I started crying.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
He kept me, and I stayed a few more months
while I got my bearings together, and then I dropped
apart time and eventually I went ahead and left and
tried to do my own thing now. The first time,
it did not go very well at all. But I
was lucky that a previous client of Trust she created
a position for me. She wanted somebody in house to

(05:42):
do her marketing in PR and she created a position
for me. It was called Healthy Memphis Common Table Yes,
and it was a health organization that worked to combat
some of the disparities in the community, things.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Like high blood pressure, if in mortality.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
We did a lot of obesity work, and I really
got to see.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I got to learn a lot about health care.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
And one of the most valuable things that I learned
is how you can be an advocate for yourself in
the health industry.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
So often we think that we have to do whatever
doctors tell us to do. But it's more.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
It should be more of a partnership where you work
hand in hand and if there are things that you
are not willing to do, or medicine that you are
not willing to take, tell your doctor and there might
be an alternative for it rather than you not taking
it and just getting sicker.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, it's called what is it being your own advocate
as it relates to your health because often you're the
only person that can be a lot.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Of times, yes, and if you can't be, it's okay
to ask family members and friends to come to the
doctor with you. There's nothing to be ashamed of, right,
But I mean, our life is valuable and you should
try to extend that and be as healthy as you
can for as long as you can.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, And so I got to do a lot.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Of really great work to create our theme was a
Healthier Memphis. So to help create a healthier Memphis because
we even looked at disparities and health care and how
some races we're getting better health care than African Americans,
or we looked in areas, I mean, food deserts was

(07:21):
a thing that we looked at You know, people really
don't think about and.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know what's interesting. It still is, but.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
That there food deserts.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Oh yeah, but it didn't have a name then, right,
Or you didn't think about how where you live affected
your health because there are food des more because there
are problems getting to the doctor.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, I learned a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
You did, and you're teaching us. Thank you. We need
this information. But yeah, so you did that and you
moved on to other things. What happened after that was
that when you started with Fred and the Southern Heritage Classic,
I went back to try my own thing again and
it started going well. Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Then that is when Fred Jones and the Southern Heritage Class.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh yeah entered my life.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
It was a more contract work, so I still had
my company, but I became the marketing director for the
Southern Heritage Class.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Uh huh? And are you still no? I am not? Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
That year was my last year. I believe I did
seven years with the Classic. Wow, that's a long time,
because I actually retired from PR in January.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
You did, I did? Okay? She retired. Jay Henderson is here,
you guys. Memphisis own. Jay Henderson charting her own path,
and that's where we're headed to her thing that she's
doing right now, I'm stormy. It is the pulse, would
keep our fingertips on the pulse of our community. So Jay, yes,

(08:48):
what's happening now?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, the exciting thing is that I have become a comedian. Yeah,
and you know that came out of nowhere. It's been
almost two years now and it's going really well. Not
enough to support myself. I don't want anybody think the
oldest girl doing so great, she's traveling everywhere and making
all this money.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, hey, but you're doing pretty good.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Looks like I've got a lot of good momentum going.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay, I do, okay, But but you skip something because
prior to that, you got a man, didn't you? What
a man? What a man?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I got married last year? Yes I did.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Okay, I met a wonderful individual and we got married
in October. Okay, And yes, so I am an only
way and loving it.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well, congratulations, thank you. Life is good. Yeah, maybe it'll
be contagious. After people hear your story, they'll want their own.
You know, I get asked all the time, what did
I do? Yeah? What did you do?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
What did I do?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, all the women out there that are single, because
all the married women y'all know, and y'all that are
booed up, y'all already know. So what did you do?
I shortened my list.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
The things that I had to have in order to
be with somebody. Yeah, I took off things like teeth.
That's a joke, that's part of that's think. But you know,
you know that, don't worry.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean, teeth is.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Such a trivial thing you got veneers.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Let me tell you something. I know a woman I
have a family member who married a man who no
teeth none. She fixed him up.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, think about it.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
You know how easy cooking would be if you married
a man with no teeth. If you have a baby,
him and a baby could eat the same thing. You
could both give him strained peas and carrots. It would
be meals would be so easy, so easy.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Okay, So, Jay, you're on this comedy journey, and I'm
gonna tell you something. I saw you. I actually hosted
a show that you were the comedian for, and I've
seen you a couple of other times, but I'm gonna
tell you, girl, this last time I saw you I
was like, this, girl, is it almost seems like you

(11:02):
are right where you're supposed to be, and it's like
you're more advanced than you actually are, if that makes sense.
Because I've seen a whole lot of comedians. I've been
into a whole lot of comedy shows, you know what
I'm saying. I'm serious. I've seen them all the Samoas,
the airlast one of them, the men, the women, I've

(11:25):
seen them, all the local I've seen all of them.
And girl, your set that you did the last time
I saw you was one of the funniest that I've seen.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
And I've been like I said, oh.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
And of course, because you're in entertainment, that is quite
a compliment. But as I tell people, I'm new to comedy,
I'm not new to entertainment. Yes, I started off in entertainment. Yes,
I know what a good entertainer is supposed to look like.
And don't get me wrong, I have so much more
to learn. And then under the tutelage of the great
fridg Jonees for all those years, yeah who was a promoter,

(12:03):
So I know what a good show is supposed to
look like. I mean, it was an honor to work
under him. I learned so much in those seven years.
But how to how to do a great show that
people want to come to.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
How blessed do you feel that you have worked and
been under the tutelage of two of the the greatest
to do it in the city of Memphis when it
comes to entertaining and marketing. I mean, they are too
of the best to come out of Memphis. How does
that feel? Because most people don't get one of them?

(12:39):
You know what I'm saying, And I'm not saying that
that that you know they're all in our city. There
are other people, But I'm saying, come on now, I'm
Fred Jones and Beverly Robertson, I'm Howard. I'm honored.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
I tell people I'm not great at a lot of things,
but I am great.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Or I am I am.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Great to have.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
So how do I want to word this? Are you
getting emotional? Do you need a tissue yet? Not yet?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
You know I'm blessed most definitely, But I am a
recipient of lots of God's love, grace and mercy.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I definitely am.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I don't take anything I have for granted. I know
it could have been somebody else, but for some reason,
he chose me, and I try not to waste those things.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know, in all the years that I've known you, Jay,
and I'm talking to Jay Henderson y'all straight out of Memphis,
A lot of you already know who she is. You
know the voice you have been one of the most.
You're kind, You're humble, even though you've done all those
things and worked around all those people. What I've seen

(13:48):
is a humble individual, somebody that I believe God loves
God definitely, somebody that I know loves Memphis most Definitely,
somebody who's in this community like you are about it.
You're not talking about it, you really are about it
and have been since I've known you. I think it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
I believe that we are put on this earth to
be a blessing to others, and how you decide to
be a blessing to others, it's up to you. Yeah,
I mean, at this time in my life, I'm trying
to spread joy. But when I hear I was here
at the station as the assistant director of Community Affairs
and then the director of Community Affairs. Part of my

(14:29):
job was to go into the community and try to
fill a void. You know, radio was about giving back.
So I was in a position where I could help
make that happen or where I could facilitate that. And
there are so many things that need to be addressed. Yeah,
and you can't do them all, and you're not even
capable or you don't have the wherewithal to do them all.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
But what you can do, do your.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Best at it.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
And right now in this journey, I'm old, I'm wiser,
I have things to talk about. I've been through some things,
so I can relate to you and tell some and
make it funny. You know, That's what comedians do. We
take everyday situations and find the humor in it.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
You're owning it too, she said, that's what comedians do.
We take you know what I'm saying. Two years in
and she's owning it. I'm on, Jay, Hey, if you're
gonna do it, do it. Yeah. Yeah. So, how has
it been going since you've become a comedian.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
It's been going. Well, let's start from the beginning. I
became a comedian after taking a women in comedy boot
camp from LaToya to Neil, who was the owner of
the comedy junt LaToya.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
The one who does all the spoofs on social media
where she'll she'll see mayor Paul Young and and do
a pose like him or Jeremy pre or yeah, yeah, yeah,
I follow her on social media.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yes, well we've been friends for years, okay, And so
she was doing this women in Comedy book camp.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
I knew I could write jokes.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, when I was When I was in college, I
interned for Tom Joyner.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Part of what I did was write right jokes.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
What happened you done?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Jay?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Right back at you?

Speaker 3 (16:17):
And his head writer, Mary Flower's Boys, who does comedy now,
by the way, took me under her wing.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
And you know, this was so long ago.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I would After my internship, it lasted about a month,
I came home and she wanted me to keep writing.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I would write.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
She would send me the list of songs because she
had to write funny commentary for the intros of the
outros of the songs they were gonna do. She would
send me the list of songs. I'd write it and
then facts it to her.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
In the day, back.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
In the day, I probably did that for maybe like
two years. I was really hoping he would hire me,
but it never happened. She wanted me to come.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Back their lost. I guess, I guess.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
But yeah, I was Tim Jordan's intern, and so I
knew I could write jokes.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I wanted to see if I could deliver them.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
So she taught me, you know, the whole structure of
doing a joke comedy style, you know, for a comedy show.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, so, so, so what is the structure? How does
that go? Can you tell us?

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Very simply? It's like a story, you gotta you got.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
A beginning, of middle, and the end. I want to
make sure that end is funny.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, you know, sometimes you have jokes throughout the thing,
but you definitely want that It's called a punchline.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
You definitely want that punchline.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, okay, mm hmm wow condensed version Okay, yeah, because
you're gonna make them, make us pay for the rest
of it. Right, But do you ever do a boot camp?
What do you think about doing one one day?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
I'm not there yet.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
You're not there yet, you way down the line. I've
been doing this ten fifteen years. Yeah, I still have
so much to learn, and I mean I soak it
up everywhere I go, like a fun Yeah, but you've
had a chance since you've become a comedian to work
around some big names.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
I have.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
People, you know, they're there are people here that everybody
knows and loves. I've had a chance to do some
things with Prescott. I've worked a little bit with We
love Prescott.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Henry Coleman.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
I don't know if you've seen He's he's he's he's
a native Memphian, but he moved to la and he's
been doing great things. Wow.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
And LaToya I've worked with her on a regular basis
and always seeking of her knowledge. And then and then
the comedy world here in Memphis is just so inviting
and loving, and we bounce off of each other and
learn each other and book each other.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
And they're all funny, from Oscar to Evonner to my
guy that you did the show with.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
I had Ambrose. I worked with Ambrose last night. He
is just funny for no reasons.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
For no reasons, bros can get up on stage and
him and Vionnier I think too, they can just get
up there and and take what's happening right then.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, they're very good off the cuffs, great crowd work. Yes,
something I'm still working on. Yeah, go off of people
in the audience.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Mm hmmm, mm hmm. You know, I think it's very
I'm glad that you're humble because people that I feel
like that so often in this business. You have people
that say they want to learn something from you, right,
and they never show up and they think they got it,

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and then you see them and you're like, okay, okay,
you know, and it's not that you you know, look
at them like they don't have it, but it's like
they don't finish a lot of times people don't seem
to be finishers with some things, and maybe it's because
they're not called to that thing, and maybe they didn't
finish because it's not there they're really their thing.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well, sometimes you're not committed, you're not passionate. It's something
you were interested in, and yeah it's time to get
in there and do the real work and realize.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Nah, this isn't what I want. Yeah, But to hear
you be humble and say I still got a lot
to learn is like, to me, it's like somebody in
what we do for a living, it's like music to
our ears because it's like, you know, I'm still teachable.
There are things I still need to learn with what
I do for a living. You know what I'm saying,
and you're a master, you're pro well, okay, but I

(20:28):
could stay I could still you know, learn some things.
I still want to learn some things. I'm not perfect
at everything, and I know I talk a lot, but
there are times when I'm I'm as just as nervous
as everybody else and feeling just as an insecure and
unsure about you know what I'm gonna say Like everybody else.

(20:50):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
And I think that's a great thing because then you
never stop learning, Yeah, always trying to get better.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I call it staying hungry.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
You stay hungry, especially if you're hungry for knowledge, and
with comedy you get humbled real quick. You get on
stage and forget your joke, so the punchline doesn't land
the way you want it them to land. There's a
heckler in an audience. Sometimes you just bomb. Yeah, you
get up there and get no laughs whatsoever?

Speaker 2 (21:16):
You Yeah, humbling that is, Yeah, when you thought you
had that joke together.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, because unlike us, like if i feel like I'm bombing,
I can go to a song You can't do that
on stage when you're lying low death. So you either
you just wrap it up or you stay up there
and keep dying, or change you change the direction of
the show. Yeah, because you learn some audiences are different
and you need to learn to adapt to the audience

(21:43):
now that I have learned by being in radio. In radio,
you learn to know your audience, like like you know
whether people want to believe it or not. Uh, there's
an audience for all of our stations. There is this
audience on this station that you're listening to right now.

(22:04):
Is not the same audience you know as another station,
and I'm talking about in our cluster. It's not the
same audience. Even though we a lot of people listen
to the same stations, there's an audience for each one.
And you have learning how to find your audience is

(22:27):
a talent. But for you to be live and on
stage and having to find your audience, it's kind of
like a nightmare. It can't doing your research.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
If somebody books me for a gig, I'm gonna ask, well,
what's your audience? Who? Because you know I have I
have jokes that audience, But a twenty something crowd would
look at me like I'm crazy. Where I talk about
I use the word like come old, I use old

(22:59):
school words. That's talk about pickle salce and liver cheese
and the Frigidare you know your grandmother knows it, but
your little sister not so much. Wow?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Jay Henderson, y'all up and coming comedian. We're going to
be seeing her probably in movies one day. Jay, I'm
so proud of you doing what you do. It is
the pulse. I'm stormy. We're keeping our fingertips on the
pulse of our community. And thank you Jay for your
yes today. Thank you, thank you for asking. Yeah, girl,
it was time. I think we've tried to do this

(23:32):
before and something happened we couldn't do it. Yeah, and
so yeah, we had to run that thing back and
get you on up in here so you can tell
your story. And I'm learning too. I have interviewed people
that I feel like I know, and once I after
I interview, I'm like, like, I know you. You know
what I'm saying, Like there are aspects about everybody's life

(23:55):
that you do not know. True, you know what I'm saying,
all of us, I think all of us? Yeah, So
what is it Jay that we don't know that you
would like for us to know my website.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, you can find me at Djhenderson dot com.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
J is felt Jae.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yes. Djhanderson dot com and you can see all about Well.
One thing I did not mention is I did not
mention in my books. Oh yeah, your books, because you're
a writer, you did book authors. See y'all see how
many things this young lady has done. And I'm I'm
gonna just implore these young people that are listening if
you ever have the time to sit and talk to her, talk,

(24:39):
If you ever see her and you're interested in doing
what she she's doing, talk say something, okay, because she's
a wealth of knowledge. Look how many things she's done.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
She's an author, She's been an interm with Tom Joyner,
Beverly Robertson, and Howard Robertson. She's she's worked with Fred
Joe who has one of the biggest black classics, definitely
in Memphis, but in one of them in the world,
in the in the country, in the country, maybe the world.
So you know, yeah, come on, JA, come out. J Henderson.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Yes, I have a short attention span, so I'm always
gonna shift directions. At some point, you know, you know,
some people can do something for thirty forty years. I
am not that individual. After a while, I start to
lose focus and it's time to shift to some point.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Wait, you think you wouldn't do this for the rest
of your life?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
This, yes, because you there, It's every day is different. Okay, Okay,
I mean and then and then. There are so many
other avenues that you can go with comedy. I could
write for other comedians, write TV shows. I could be
in TV shows and movies. Absolutely, there's so many ways.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
You can branch out. Yes, you don't have to stay
and stand up.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
So now that you are doing it, what advice would
you give to young people out there that maybe want
to do it.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Pay attention to the world around you. A lot of
what I do is people.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Watching, and I pull out certain things that I think
other people would be interested in.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Read.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
A lot of what we talk about is based on
current events. Read, watch the news, watch television shows about
current events, so you can stay relevant and talk about
things your audience can relate to.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Go to comedy shows.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
I get my best lessons watching other people on stage.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yep, you're letting their lives or their comedy career teach
you definitely, definitely.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean there are people that every time I see them,
I am in such awe.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
So now that you're where you are and you talked
a minute about bombing on stage, does it give you
more compassion for people like Tiffany Hattish the time did
that on stage and everybody was talking about it, or
other comedians that have bombed on stage? Or am I
saying it correctly?

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Most definitely? And then you just have an off day sometimes,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Just yes, you have a bad day.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
I have a bad day and the jokes just don't
hit the way they should, or maybe I did not
deliver them the way I should. Sometimes I mess up,
I fumble my words and don't put the punchline where
it's supposed to be. Yes, I definitely have sympathy for
somebody that's not doing well in the moment on stage.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, And you.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Know, you go back, you watch the video if there
is one, and you figure out what you did wrong.
If that joke didn't work, you rework it or you
throw it out and try something else.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Always teach them teachable.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I think we all deserve grace at some point.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, And sometimes it's not until you need grace that
you realize that we all deserve grace. Amen, Because there
I'm gonna tell you some we all have humbling moments.
None of us are will escape that in life. Mm hmm. So, Jay,

(28:16):
is there any comedian out there in this world today
that you would like to work with? Go ahead and
speak that thing into existence. Wanda Sykes. I love Wanda Sykes.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
You know I'm a Zeta and sure Underwood is my
sorority system. Okay, I would love to work with her.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
And then they're just people people like Kat William, Kevin Hart. Well,
she doesn't do comedy anymore, but I would love to
work do maybe do a movie with like Woopy Goldberg.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Wow. The community is growing now that you're in it,
and I love to hear the fact that you're passionate
about it and you can think you believe in your
heart and I do too, that it's going to lead
you to other places I do.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
And the great thing about it, it reminds me of
radio in the sense that you're supposed to have fun.
When I first started doing radio, Bobby oj told me
that when it's not funny anymore, it's time for you
to leave.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, And of course every moment won't be funny games
you know that. But radio is one of those jobs
where you get to come in and have a good
time and invite others to have a good time with you,
and so comedy mirrors that.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
So I try not to.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I try not to take myself too seriously, try not
to put too much pressure on myself, because when I
was in radio, I would beat myself up after doing
a show because I just wanted to get it right. Yes,
with a talk show. I wanted to be knowledgeable. I
wanted people to enjoy what I have to say. And

(29:54):
I didn't always get it right. Yeah, sometimes we don't always.
We never do sometimes, and I would beat myself up.
I mean, my whole day would be ruined. I started
the show is at nine am, so going the rest
of my day. So I'm learning to be okay if
if I bomb, which doesn't happen as often as it
used to when I first started, Yeah, and just regroup,

(30:18):
because no, when you get off stage, nobody babies. You
come here, I'm sorry. You do better next time, No,
it happens. Get it together, yeah, m m M. I
love it well. Jay Henderson, Thank you for stopping and
sharing your story and a story it has been honey.

(30:40):
We did we did not know, and a lot of
people probably didn't know all that you do. But maybe
they didn't know or maybe they forgot. So thank you
for reminding us and sharing with us why you are
so amazing. Ah, glad you think I'm amazing.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Tell your husband we said, thank you for letting you
come up here and do this.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
You know he's somewhere selling Italian ice.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh my goodness, it is the pulse. I am stormy,
keeping our fingertips on the pulse of our community. Jay
Henderson on the show up and coming comedian in the
comedy world, and she's done a little bit of everything again.
Thank you, Jay, Thank you my pleasure to be here.
Any parting words before we go.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Live, laugh and love to the fullest.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Got it? Okay, We'll see you next week, same time,
same station. God bless you have a great week.