March 16, 2023 • 39 mins
On this episode Arkansas-born, California Bay Area- raised Comedian, Podcaster, & Comedy Store Hollywood Employee Quincy Weekley shares his first-hand roller-coaster experience of being around comedy for 15+ years. They discuss being an employee at a comedy club and the pros and cons that come along with that, how to navigate your own mental health while pursuing your dreams and so much more! With Quincy's naturally talkative style of humor mixed with his vulnerable almost stoic type insights make this an episode you don't wanna miss!
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S2 (00:30):
What's good y'all. Welcome back to another episode of Hilariously Blunt it's your
host Walter for sponsored by March and Ash. Shout out
to OLAS Media. Appreciate y'all . Today is one of
the most fire episodes, man. I got a fellow co-worker.
I used to work at the Comedy Store up until
about a month ago. I just told him, But this
guy came all the way down from L.A. doing some work,
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and I had to get him on to show man
one of the fire comedians who has seen this at Albuquerque.
Y'all make some noise, start digitally clapping all around. My guy,
Quincy Weekley.
S3 (01:04):
Yeah. Hey, what's up?
S2 (01:05):
I like that intro. Then, you nigger. I was thinking
about that. And on the way up here.
S3 (01:09):
You know, don't get don't get their hopes up too much.
Indeed. But I'm glad to have you on the show, bro.
Thanks. I'm gonna be in a podcast. Yeah.
S2 (01:20):
Talk to everybody man, what's up with you? Where you from? like,
You been doing comedy. Where you at?
S3 (01:24):
What's new, man? That's a it's a long story. So,
I mean, it's going to go all the way back.
I'm originally going to I'm originally from Arkansas, so I'm
like a Southern boy, right?
S2 (01:32):
Yeah, I know. You're from there
S3 (01:32):
South. Yeah, originally from Arkansas, but I've been in California
a long time.
S2 (01:36):
Okay. Okay.
S3 (01:37):
I went to junior high and high school and some
college in the Bay Area in San Jose. So that's
generally where I tell people I'm from.
S2 (01:43):
So you, you went to college in the bay. Could
you send for going to Arkansas State?
S3 (01:48):
Yeah, well I mean we junior high and high school
and some college we my mom moved us out here,
me and my brother.
S2 (01:53):
Oh, you said junior high. Oh, yeah. She moved to
middle school.
S3 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Middle school, high school. Yeah.
S2 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah.
S3 (02:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
S2 (02:01):
I mean, real quick, know resolve. When did we got cool then? did I meet
you during the pandemic. or I think it was before.
S3 (02:06):
I think it was, I want to say, before the pandemic.
S2 (02:09):
Before the pandemic.
S3 (02:10):
So around the 2017, it has to do with, like me,
you know, my comedy career. 2017, I started coming to
San Diego, a good friend of mine, Trey Stewart. You know,
I'm obviously.
S2 (02:22):
Yep. Yeah, yeah. We fire.
S3 (02:23):
Now. Yeah, yeah. You just got passed to a seller So yeah
S2 (02:26):
Go say you say that the other day. I say bro.
Yeah. He basically moved to New York because you know
there are go to where you wanted and you know
he got best seller what's her name Etsy is the
you know the booker that talent coordinator there she really
likes him she's giving her lots of spots so and
he wants to do comedy so that's in New York
so that's.
Fire shout out to my guy Trey Stewart man yeah. Real quick
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story of him He was the first dude I saw
when I moved here and I moved in 16, which
is when you talk about 17. I moved here at 16.
He was the first dude I thought I was like.
Like black dad was like taking it serious and was
actually... try a new shit consistently. If that makes sense. You
know what I'm saying? Like you could tell them motherfuckers I
was really trying to work it because I do a
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new shit like it
S3 (03:09):
Like, Yeah, he's a he's a real cop. Like, he's
in it For the love of comedy. He works harder
than like anyone I've really seen, to be perfectly honest.
And he got really funny in San Diego. There's a
lot of.
S2 (03:20):
Picked that up.
S3 (03:21):
There's a lot of quality stage time to pick up.
What do you mean?
S2 (03:23):
What did you pick up? Any advice or what Inequality.
He's I guess he.
S3 (03:27):
Was a door guy at the Comedy Store for a
little bit. So that's how we met Yeah, I was
there and then he worked for a little bit. But in.
S2 (03:32):
Hollywood.
S3 (03:33):
Yeah, he was a terrible employee.
S2 (03:34):
Though. I'm dead, I' dead, that's funny as hell. I'm good.
S3 (03:36):
So I mean, I mean, I've told him so it's.
I don't feel like I'm talking shit but yeah. Employee
But he is like a savant in comedy, you know
what I'm saying? That that's what he was meant to do.
And so it was never meant to have a job. Really.
S2 (03:50):
A is half and half. Half and half. Yeah. Because
I really liked working there. But I also was like, Damn,
And I don't like work here. But it was, it
wasn't the fact of the job itself. It was the
fact of watching everybody do what I wanted to do.
You know what I'm saying? It wasn't like because of
the thing, it was like, cause I'm like, I'm not
going to be on stage right now. Not picking up his garbage.
S3 (04:11):
Yeah, exactly. Well, there's also a thing of, like, getting
when you get started, like, really young, if you know
you want to do it really young, it's easier to
live like a college student in the beginning, you know
what I'm saying?
S2 (04:20):
Rather than in your 30, 35?
S3 (04:22):
Yeah, when you like.
S2 (04:23):
Don't do that.
S3 (04:24):
It's a little bit harder for like, yeah, it's a
bit harder for them to bite the bullet and really
create time to only do comedy and live sort of meager,
not be as comfortable. Could you get used to being comfortable?
S2 (04:36):
Was really did you go to that? Did you go
to their face?
S3 (04:38):
Okay, so.
S2 (04:39):
You're.
S3 (04:39):
Hungry face again, 15 to 2017. I was really comfortable.
I had one roommate who was a friend of mine.
I lived in a two bedroom apartment, had the master bedroom,
secured parking. I drove a BMW. And for all you
people who don't live in Los Angeles, that's like, pretty comfortable.
S2 (04:53):
Oh, yeah. He basically you you got. Okay, first off,
a two bedroom apartment is 2500 or an hour unless
you in the hood.
S3 (05:02):
Yeah they in in North Hollywood it was.
S2 (05:04):
Okay but.
S3 (05:05):
He had been there for a.
S2 (05:05):
While. 1892. Grant is still a lot.
S3 (05:09):
Yeah, exactly. And like I said, I was going to
have the master bedroom. He was a friend of mine,
so it wasn't a stranger. So the house was comfortable.
But I went through like a real serious depression in
from 2000, 15, 2000, 17. Really, really bad. Yeah.
S2 (05:23):
Were you comedy or post?
S3 (05:24):
No, I'm still doing comedy, but I wasn't doing comedy. Yeah. Yeah.
At this time, what happened was I got hired at
the Comedy Store in Hollywood 2011 by the old talent coordinator,
Tommy Morris. Right.
S2 (05:36):
You was there with Tommy? Yes.
S3 (05:38):
Yeah, exactly.
S2 (05:40):
I started doing comedy, too, like I made in 2012.
So you was.
S3 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he got fired, and then the
new guy came in and I sort of lost my way.
I didn't know where it was and what I wanted
to do, and I wasn't one of the new guys. Guys,
you know?
S2 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
S3 (05:58):
So I kind of lost my way, and then, you know,
I became, you know, seriously depressed. I was just like,
We all.
S2 (06:03):
Go do it, bro.
S3 (06:04):
Yeah. All I would do is I worked at it
on the table, the job and under the table job.
So I worked there a couple times a week and
I was plenty of money to live by. To live with.
To live on.
S2 (06:15):
Yeah.
S3 (06:15):
Yeah.
S2 (06:15):
And then I could survive. Yeah.
S3 (06:17):
And then I worked at the Comedy Store basically once
a month, and I was performing like once a month
for like two and a half years. So I wasn't
in comedy.
S2 (06:23):
Oh, shit, nigga, that's crazy. And I cannot imagine it.
And this is 2012.
S3 (06:28):
This is like.
S2 (06:30):
13, 20.
S3 (06:30):
Like 2015.
S2 (06:32):
15.
S3 (06:32):
Yeah.
S2 (06:33):
Your, my bet you did say 15.
S3 (06:34):
20, 15, 17, like maybe even early 2014. Yeah. It
was like about three years working once a month anyway.
And so I was at the point where I felt like, okay,
if I don't change, I feel like I literally was
kind of going to die. I know it's we're doing,
but not like I was dying on the inside. I
was it was like I.
S2 (06:52):
Was going to say, it's like a slow drip. Yeah, exactly.
It's like, it's almost like a poison. Like, it's not instant.
It's like a it's like a.
S3 (06:59):
Yeah, I wasn't living. I was like, waiting to die
is what kind of wet describe it. And so I
knew myself. I knew that if I had the chance to,
you know, become lazy or to not do something, I
would take it. So I put my back against the wall.
S2 (07:14):
So this is good real quick, but I don't want
to cut you off because this is what a butter is.
I think this is fire because a lot of people,
I think especially even if it's not just comedy, just
in anything in entertainment or art field, like niggas don't
realize or people don't realize that it's it's a it's
a sacrifice. Yeah. Yeah. And you may not necessarily you
you figured out what works best for you. You have
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to put yourself in a back against the wall situation
to come out and I lowkey be doing the same thing.
On to procrastinations way and a lot of people don't
realize they're like. You don't just wake up and be like,
I'm happy as fuck every day. You know what I'm saying?
Especially in something that takes a long time to get
past that threshold my nigga.
S3 (07:56):
It really took a while.
S2 (07:58):
Yeah. So my bad for getting you out?
S3 (07:59):
No, that's okay. So what I did is I bought
a minivan and I moved into the minivan. My friend
ended up moving back home and he was like, Just
wait until, you know, July two. I move back home.
Give me that much time. I was like, okay, So
I save a little bit of money. So I got
a gym membership and I bought a storage unit to
put myself in. And I moved into the minivan. And
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then I started doing comedy pretty serious. Like my plan
was to go up at least twice a night and
I average probably 9 to 14 times a week, sometimes
more than.
S2 (08:33):
You know, you did all this nice room, man.
S3 (08:35):
And it was tough because it honestly, it took like
a year before I could feel the difference. And I'm
so happy that I survived that year.
S2 (08:43):
Real quick. Let's not fast forward past that. What would
you say was the straw that broke the camel's back?
That made you because. Because that's like a radical. Like
you were like, fuck this. And I became a new
you know, I'm saying, what do you think was the
straw that like? I don't know. Got the activation energy started.
S3 (09:03):
I really felt like a bit of it. Really felt
like it was life or death right there. And it
was felt it was felt like life or death in
a very real way. And also, I'm like, what else
am I going to do? And by the way.
S2 (09:14):
I'm kind of feeling that right now, but I feel
like I'm up to 30.
S3 (09:17):
And here's the crazy part is like, I'm not young.
I'm old, man. I'm 45 right now. So when I.
S2 (09:22):
Moved, Are you black nigga? 45 is a new 38. Yeah.
S3 (09:26):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think most black comics, most
black entertainers make it when they're older. And you kind
of have to be undeniable in a lot of ways.
S2 (09:35):
Yeah. Oh, definitely We could. That's it. Yeah, every way.
S3 (09:38):
I mean, it's not like. I mean, Jerrod and Jack night,
you know, there are both kind of exceptions, you know,
They're not.
S2 (09:44):
It's a few people that are anomalies.
S3 (09:45):
Yeah. Yeah. You know.
S2 (09:46):
Like. Like Dave. I mean, I mean, if we're talking
to older people, you know, Dave, Eddie, they never had jobs. Yeah,
they never have.
S3 (09:54):
Eddie. I mean, he was like, he's like Chris.
S2 (09:55):
Rock, like, 14. There's a rock.
S3 (09:57):
Star. Yeah.
S2 (09:58):
He's 18. He was a.
S3 (09:59):
Rock. Yeah. Yeah.
S2 (09:59):
I just think it was, you know, like, no.
S3 (10:01):
One's really done that since. Yeah, I think even Gerard
is very special was on HBO, but it's like by
the time he did that, Eddie Murphy had already had two.
S2 (10:09):
Oh yeah. No, 100%.
S3 (10:10):
Yeah. That age is.
S2 (10:11):
Not coming back around. You're not doing that again.
S3 (10:13):
Yeah. So anyway, I moved into the van and I
started performing and then I just started going to it hard.
And then like I said, Trey, it's been a lot
of time down here. There's a lot of quality time
in San Diego. So I started coming down with him,
sleeping in my bed, you know, showering at the gym.
S2 (10:27):
And I was just so crazy.
S3 (10:28):
Doing shows for free. So, you know, Maria Herman does
the comedy I chose.
S2 (10:33):
Yeah, bro, I just did heights Not sure.
S3 (10:35):
What feature in the night he get me a guest
spot basically for kind of giving them a ride of
course And then I would do well and then like,
they would have me back.
S2 (10:42):
Bring you back because you busted.
S3 (10:43):
Yeah. And then, you know, the madhouse, and then, you know,
all the other independent shows.
S2 (10:47):
You would just be around. Yeah, you was around in
the community when.
S3 (10:50):
I was doing, you know, And every time I got
an opportunity, I took advantage of it because I've been
working hard and, you know, I got invited back.
S2 (10:55):
Real quick. I also know we going forward, but I
also don't want to skip this part because I feel
like this is a real good tune. When you said it,
it took about a year until I saw a difference. Yeah,
but you was going up because I think people don't
realize this is also a part of a too fam.
People think that you could do it once a week
or two, three times a week even. Nigga. No, my
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my mentor who opens for Kat was like, You need
to get up. At least you need to minimum have
a microphone in your hand speaking into it six times
a week minimum.
S3 (11:28):
Yeah.
S2 (11:28):
And that's like floor level. And you said you was
going 9 to 14.
S3 (11:34):
Yeah I would, Yeah. Out nine or 14. There's one
Mike that was in L.A. that it went to like
two or three in the morning. So I ended every
night there. There are some days I would get three,
sometimes four in four spots in, in one day. But yeah,
I would do like nine, sometimes like 16 spots in
a week. I would.
S2 (11:53):
Do. And you kept that job. How did you afford
to live?
S3 (11:57):
I kept the job at the store. I worked at
the under-the-table, Under-the-table job.
S2 (12:01):
That's what I met. So you kept a job? Just
lived in a van, and.
S3 (12:03):
I didn't even nearly need to. I end up going
down to, like, one day a week there.
S2 (12:07):
Yeah, because. Because your. I presume your cost of living
was low, nigga, Buying food and gas.
S3 (12:11):
Yeah, exactly. And, you.
S2 (12:13):
Know, little shit.
S3 (12:13):
It was like paying for, you know, meals, gas, the storage,
insurance and my phone. It was pretty it was a
it was not a lot of overhead. So it allowed
me time, you know, to do a lot of comedy.
I took advantage of it.
S2 (12:27):
And and in that in that year. What do you
think was the. What was the feeling you had when
you started to feel like you got it? You know,
I'm saying like, I feel like we all feel that
point where we start to get comfortable or like, fine,
I almost say, find your voice as cliche as fuck,
but find your voice, I guess.
S3 (12:47):
I mean, I just because it so it's like repetition,
You know what to think. So I started doing it
so much and I've been in so many good situations
and so many bad situations that they didn't have a
big as big an effect on me anymore.
S2 (13:00):
Exactly. You could play the line in the middle.
S3 (13:02):
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And there are still some situations like,
you know, the last couple of times I showcase at
the Comedy Store, it didn't go so well because I
let my nerves get the better of me.
S2 (13:11):
Oh, yeah, that's the thing.
S3 (13:11):
That kind of thing.
S2 (13:12):
But that day, I just did the same thing. Like
I did a show the day before at Mic Drop.
I got I got to take you to my Dropbox.
S3 (13:19):
I did, like, a month ago.
S2 (13:20):
Oh, yeah, it's great. Hell, yeah. You got a stop pillow.
I plug you in. I did a show there before.
The day before. Murdered in full murder. Best nigga there.
It was a competition. I came in first, and the
next day, or like, two days later, it was like
Laugh after dark going on tour to, like, pick up people. Yeah,
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I was nervous then. As a matter of fact, I go, Wow, How?
But how did you didn't. Day was looking for me.
S3 (13:47):
You didn't do what? You know you can do that.
S2 (13:49):
Yeah. Yeah. It's that's.
S3 (13:50):
Part of the game and it's it's mental.
S2 (13:52):
Right is mental mental.
S3 (13:54):
So I also I have to say this. It wasn't
just me. I also started seeing a therapist because I
knew that I had already been isolating myself in 2015
and 17. I'd already been isolating myself. So now I
moved until then. So it was a potential to be
a lot worse.
S2 (14:10):
That's really.
S3 (14:11):
Good. At the start, I started seeing a therapist.
S2 (14:14):
I just start going back to therapy last week on Monday.
S3 (14:16):
Brody Yeah, I.
S2 (14:17):
Thought that black man getting help, right? Yeah. Yeah. If
he's real.
S3 (14:20):
Yeah. And, you know, because it was, you know, we're
in a black community, it's different now, you know, it's
a little bit not as frowned upon, but before it
was like, Oh, you're a pussy. You going to Their
boss was wrong.
S2 (14:30):
Yeah, you definitely was a bit be.
S3 (14:32):
Strong in the.
S2 (14:32):
Nineties. You definitely was a bitch.
S3 (14:34):
Yeah. And it's and so there's like a stigma surrounding it,
but I'm like this is life or death, so I
don't care what people think. I know what I have
to do to make myself mentally healthy and be able
to take this undertaking. And, you know, it worked out well.
And then even so, things got better and things got
a lot better. Like before the pandemic. That was the
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first year I had to file taxes as a comic
because I got picked up by Brad Williams, the host.
So I hosted it for him basically at every local improv,
also San Jose improv, because I'm from there. So I
was like, Hey, I can do that. I have a
place to stay. All that you don't have to worry
about putting me up.
S2 (15:09):
You're not. I will do.
S3 (15:11):
That, man. He's the man.
S2 (15:12):
He's a beast, man. He's a fucking.
S3 (15:14):
Beast. He's a beast. I don't know how person Beast
of a person.
S2 (15:16):
Yeah, I don't. I never got to meet him personally,
but he's funny in the medium.
S3 (15:19):
He's like, the nicest guy. And, you know, so many
headliners have so many. Like, you can't do this. Joe
can't do that. Joe can submerge, like, whatever. He's none
of that.
S2 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
S3 (15:29):
Yeah. Because I'm a professional, and these are my I'm.
S2 (15:32):
Going to do what I want to do.
S3 (15:33):
Comes up and.
S2 (15:34):
I'm going to get my shit off.
S3 (15:35):
Anyway. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, so it's like, it's
really refreshing and it's great. And luckily, you know, his
feature is J.B. Ball, who's also. We've all become friends.
S2 (15:44):
Oh, shit. You know, I think. Oh, I just see.
And he was doing a theatre somewhere. I just did it.
Theater in.
S3 (15:50):
Fresno?
S2 (15:51):
Yeah, I just did a show with Mark Curry. I
produced the show at Mark Curry and I see him
on there. That's where JP borrowed, like I said. Yeah,
I had to look him up. I never seen him.
S3 (15:59):
He's funny. He's from Tampa, Florida, and he's like, he's
he's recording this month. He'll be recording a special. Yeah,
he's going to start headlining more. So now I'm in
line to start featuring for Brad because Debbie will be
headlining more and Dave's also a friend of mine, so
hopefully I'll pick up.
S2 (16:14):
Some swag on him tonight. So playing next.
S3 (16:17):
Week, you know, getting out there and get yourself out
there helps. Bill Yeah, and here's, here's the crazy part.
I mean, did you want to ask them, Look.
S2 (16:22):
No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to you go.
S3 (16:24):
So things are better. And then pandemic, right? The pandemic
got kind of lost again because it was like I
was identified as a comic and I couldn't do one week.
S2 (16:33):
I know, bro, to have the weirdest time, nigga.
S3 (16:36):
So it's like, I don't know what to do. So
I stayed in my mom's house for like nine months
in a pandemic. She didn't know about.
S2 (16:41):
The San Jose or. Yeah, be.
S3 (16:42):
Here. Yeah, she in Hayward says they were. No, she
didn't know that. I lived in my and my sister
didn't know. My family didn't know. They still don't know. Really?
S2 (16:50):
Really?
S3 (16:51):
Yeah. Because I didn't want to tell them. Of course
it would just be.
S2 (16:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well fucking be looking at if they
know it's weird because people in the game don't really
understand the sacrifices for the game. You know, I'm saying
it because Angela and The Gap I share, I moved
here 15 or 16, I got 1617. I was a
year and a half ago sleeping in every hostel in
San Diego. Had to sleep on a trolley station a
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couple times. Yeah, No, they're good.
S3 (17:18):
It's really crazy like what you have to do. And
it's and then when you see people who have support
from their parents and it's like nothing against them, but
oftentimes they don't take advantage of it.
S2 (17:26):
Man, nigger, bro. If if I didn't have to pay
rent for like two months, I will be three years
ahead of the game.
S3 (17:35):
We say like because they're always used is like this
crystal clear. Crystal is that like directed friends his that.
S2 (17:42):
Oh yeah, he was rich. Yeah.
S3 (17:43):
He came but Chris was out there hitting the mikes
and he took advantage of his opportunity. And that's how
he got so funny. He didn't, like, sit back and
just like, we didn't bullshit. He did not bullshit. And
he got really funny. Funny? Fuck, yeah, exactly.
S2 (17:56):
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turn to Billy.
S3 (18:19):
You know, this is the funniest part because it's been
like six weeks and five days and I quit smoking
cigarettes and weed.
S2 (18:27):
Oh, you did both.
S3 (18:27):
But yeah, but the funny thing is, like, now there's
always the best weed around you.
S2 (18:34):
When you quit something.
S3 (18:36):
It was like, Oh, you want some firearms, weed that,
you know, you smoke it and you forget your name
and like your family.
S2 (18:42):
You make you want to smoke and wake up in
1776 because.
S3 (18:48):
You want to raise your memory like a hard day. Like, yeah,
but then like, no, I can't because I just, you know,
I told myself I was going to stop real quick.
S2 (18:57):
Let's talk about this. This sobriety you got going on.
Is that is that temporary? Did it?
S3 (19:02):
So I think I'm probably going to smoke weed again.
The cigarettes is what I really don't want to smoke anymore.
But it's kind of if I could try to shorten
this big story the beginning of the year. So anyways,
when I started, you know, when I started, when a
minivan started, yeah, my back.
S2 (19:19):
We'll get to that. We'll get to the sobriety.
S3 (19:20):
Just it's, it's important to the story. Kind of like
I hadn't really I felt really good at depression was
really reduced significantly and I was just feeling good about
myself and I was motivated and, you know, accomplishing things.
S2 (19:34):
I love to put out as a black.
S3 (19:35):
Man. And it was and it was great. So I
didn't really have any I had, you know, a couple
down times, but nothing serious like 2000.
S2 (19:43):
You were human, you know, you were here we are.
S3 (19:44):
So beginning of this year, it came back.
S2 (19:47):
All.
S3 (19:48):
Right. And what was happening is my shows weren't going
so well.
S2 (19:52):
I was going to ask you that. Did it affect
your comedy? Yeah.
S3 (19:55):
It wasn't really. It was like my comedy affected it.
Not it affected my comedy. Mhm. What I kind of learned. Yeah.
And I, and I could not understand why because I'd
had a lot of success. Things are going well and
I was like I couldn't understand why I was having
trouble getting to the next level or why I was
failing in a bunch of these situations where I should
have been excelling and I figured it out and I
(20:16):
thought I was connecting with the audience, but I was
creating a barrier to keep myself safe. And that's what
was happening to me. We do comedy. You know how
even though an audience is a bunch of individuals with
a bunch of individual sense of humor and personalities, they
become one. Yeah.
S2 (20:34):
I think.
S3 (20:35):
And as a group, they were picking up on the
fact that I was being sort of shallow in a
lot of ways.
S2 (20:40):
Man, this one thing real quick that that's the one
thing I feel like especially with what we do, you
can never fake the funk.
S3 (20:48):
Yeah.
S2 (20:48):
Is genuineness. Like you can never.
S3 (20:50):
I mean there's some comics who their style is that
and I think if that's your style to be sort
of such different, but I wasn't trying to do that.
S2 (20:57):
Yeah, but I think even with that, people know what
they're into are people who are coming for the character. Yeah,
if that makes sense. You know what I'm saying? Like,
even if.
S3 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
S2 (21:08):
If your, your stick is of character or like a
whatever the fuck people are coming because they like that.
But nine times out of ten at least comedy in
our age, day and age like it's about the genuineness
or the Yeah, humanness.
S3 (21:21):
Authentic being real and it comedy at the Comedy Store,
they nurture that and they don't let you do comedy
stores and let you get away with shit would bullshit.
S2 (21:30):
Man. I'm really that's what I want to hear, man,
because I want to get up there. I'm really salty
that I did work at the Comedy Store and go
to L.A. more, nigga.
S3 (21:37):
Yeah, I mean, it's it it really does like the
original room of the Comedy Store in Hollywood. Kind of.
It's like, think of yourself as an onion, and you
go there and it just starts peeling away the layers
until it gets to the core, and then you become real.
So what happened was, I thought I thought I was connecting,
but I was creating a barrier. And and by the way,
this barrier was throughout all my relationships, not just on comedy.
S2 (21:59):
So it trickled, it trickled into other every.
S3 (22:01):
Little aspect of my relationship, like dating, you know, friendships,
everything was sort of was sort of on that.
S2 (22:07):
Downward spiral. Yeah.
S3 (22:08):
And it wasn't it wasn't authentic. I was like, yes,
it was.
S2 (22:11):
It wasn't present.
S3 (22:12):
Yeah, I wasn't present. And I was trying to be
safe and I wasn't exposed. I wasn't vulnerable.
S2 (22:17):
That's the word. That's the word right there. And that's,
I think, as black me And that's also is it.
Comedy is like a weird paradox because you have to
be vulnerable. Yeah. And as niggas, you have to not
be vulnerable.
S3 (22:30):
Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, you have to be strong
and resilient. That's all right. I say that when I
talk about my therapy joke, you know.
S2 (22:36):
Yeah, that is a thing.
S3 (22:37):
You hear the thing that Richard Pryor says, you know,
toward the end of his life, he said, I just
wish I would have been more vulnerable on stage. And
this is a black guy in the seventies talking about
having sex with another dude, which is like, yeah, to
this day.
S2 (22:48):
You don't do.
S3 (22:50):
Anything. But he wanted to be more vulnerable. And I
think I'm.
S2 (22:53):
Told that because he was on fire.
S3 (22:55):
Yeah.
S2 (22:55):
Sucking dick.
S3 (22:56):
Yeah, exactly. Which is like before it was like even
close to being okay in the black community anyway.
S2 (23:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
S3 (23:03):
So anyway, the point was one of the biggest things
was my age. I was afraid to talk about how
old I was because I felt like I wasn't accomplished.
And then people would judge me.
S2 (23:16):
Like you felt like you weren't where you needed to
be at the age that you were at.
S3 (23:19):
Exactly. I felt like I was a real lack of
success that age that I was that I'm.
S2 (23:23):
Going through that right now. Bro, can you speak on that?
Because I'm my 30th birthday, nigga. It's in 12 days
and I feel that same way.
S3 (23:30):
I mean, honestly, I would say you're 30. You still
have plenty of time, but like, that's my perspective. But now,
of course, it's like it's never too late to do
what you love and to go after it. So as
long as you're on that path and you feel like
you're doing everything you can to achieve your goals, you're fine. Yeah.
I mean, I listen to a lot of inspirational speakers now.
S2 (23:50):
All I do every day and I do every day.
S3 (23:52):
Yeah. And it's just like it and it's all about. Yeah,
just be on your grind. Forget about the naysaying in
your head and change Like you change your DNA in
a way. I mean.
S2 (24:01):
Yeah.
S3 (24:02):
Really, I'm, I have a lot of issues and every
time I wake up in the morning, it's like I'm
thinking negative. I'm thinking all that stuff. But as soon
as I started talking about my age and I did
it at the Comedy Store in the original room in
front of my co-workers.
S2 (24:16):
Oh, you do? Where I say.
S3 (24:17):
All my coworkers who are probably, you know, at least
ten years younger.
S2 (24:20):
Go, Yeah, hold them niggas. Yeah. The young bulls.
S3 (24:23):
In front of the talent coordinator who I was afraid
who I've been like, I've been lying to everyone, you know,
and it's either a straight up lie or a life
of omission. Like, I didn't bring it up. Exactly. So
I talked about it and I talked about because I
had a joke about why I'm single and I'm single
because I'm picky, but I'm fat. And that's a terrible combination.
S2 (24:42):
Right? It's like it's true.
S3 (24:44):
But it's just scratching the surface. Like the really it's
like I have abandonment issues, so it makes me clingy
and codependent.
S2 (24:50):
And and that's the real me.
S3 (24:51):
And that's the real me.
S2 (24:52):
That's the real.
S3 (24:53):
Yeah. And the joke that I got from that is
much better, even though it's I haven't really delved into yet.
But the joke now is like and women can smell
that a mile away. It's like I walk, it's like
they walk into a room, I know somebody in here
is horny and said, you know, we should leave, you know,
saying like and that's and it's sort of the truth.
So anyway, I started talking about I took that monkey
and it wasn't a monkey. It was a gorilla. Yeah,
(25:13):
it was a big silverback. I took it off my
back and I was sort of upset because I'm like, Oh,
no one put that there except.
S2 (25:20):
Yourself, man. We are our own worst fucking enemies, bro.
S3 (25:24):
Yes.
S2 (25:25):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'll be honest with you, Quincy. Bro,
you really. I needed to hear this today, nigga, because
I'm going to that same type of issue right now. Fam, man,
that is with my mama. Like my mom have bipolar
schizophrenia died. I had to go to the hospital, pull
the plug. She was a vegetable, like, oh.
S3 (25:40):
Man, a.
S2 (25:41):
Whole bunch of whole bunch of shit that I never
I kind of went through the shit and came back
to California and we right back to work. I didn't process.
S3 (25:49):
And you're pretty young to have to deal with that.
S2 (25:51):
And I never and I never have said it on stage, bro.
And when I kind of inkling a little bit like,
you know, use a little bit of edge and it
was almost like a liberation or like a freeing, you
know what I did you feel that? You know that?
S3 (26:04):
Yeah. You know what I liken it to? It's it's
like you ever if criminal activity right You never do
criminal activity with someone who you know don't know if
they've done it.
S2 (26:16):
You think that you're on the fence. Yeah. You're doing
it for nobody or.
S3 (26:20):
You may have they've done dirt. It's like, let's do dirt.
And so what happens is I think when you're real honest,
the audience trust you more because it's like, so now
they understand that you don't think you're better than them,
that you're flawed just as far as they are. And
so that creates a real connection. A real bond.
S2 (26:35):
Exactly. And it creates like a, uh, atmosphere of openness
or atmosphere. Like I say, like we're safe.
S3 (26:44):
A lack of judgment. Yeah. And it's just an experience
and exactly a present experience as well. It's like everyone
is in the room now together.
S2 (26:51):
And you feel like that's what happened when you started
talking about your age.
S3 (26:53):
That's exactly what happened. All right. And so instantly in
that when I say when I say instantly, Walter, instantly,
my comedy got better instantly, like my my depression lifted.
S2 (27:05):
We've been doing all right now. And I often do
that instantly.
S3 (27:08):
And I say instantly, okay. And then like maybe a
half after that, I got an offer to write a
packet to be a writer on the game show. Okay,
first time offer. I didn't know I could do it.
I was afraid I fucking murdered that packet. I didn't
get the job. But the head writer's.
S2 (27:24):
Confidence that you.
S3 (27:25):
Had.
S2 (27:26):
Confidence.
S3 (27:26):
I didn't know I could do it and I did
it and I murdered it. I did. Well, my packet
was better than the sample packet they sent you, right?
I didn't get the job. What? And then like a
week and a half after that, I told you, women
have been like a trigger to relationships. I met this
this beautiful girl. And like, we we dated for, like,
a month, and it didn't work out, you know?
S2 (27:45):
But it was the step, though. It was the all
the progress is happiness.
S3 (27:48):
Yes. It was like all those things that I wanted
and desired that I thought I couldn't have. I realized
that I could have. And and and actually, I kind
of had them from the brief amount of time. And
it's like, if you want to say God or whoever
you believe in, it's like he put the he dangle
the carried out in front of me. And it's like
he only gave me a whiff or he let me
lick it to taste the flavor. And then he put
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it too far, the sort of have to chase it, you.
S2 (28:12):
Know what I mean? So now you got to get
the fuck up.
S3 (28:14):
So now I've got to get the fuck I got
to chase that carrot. And so anyway, once I found
out that that was the reason for the depression and
for all these things in my life, it was easy
to fix things. So that whole big circle. Now we're
going back to the quitting. So I'm like, okay, yeah,
I quit smoking weed and cigarettes because like, I had
been something I want to do for a while. Smoke
(28:35):
weed for a long time, cigarettes. I smoke for a
long time. And I was like, Yeah, go ahead real quick.
S2 (28:40):
How long have you been doing doing comedy by the
end that you decided because quitting this is recent, like 20, 2020.
I quit as long as six weeks ago.
S3 (28:48):
This was about six weeks ago.
S2 (28:49):
How long have you been doing comedy? We haven't even
reached that.
S3 (28:52):
I mean, that's I've been doing comedy probably like 15 years, man.
S2 (28:55):
15 years.
S3 (28:56):
And but most of it was I was.
S2 (28:57):
On a couple of years, was on and off. Like
you said.
S3 (29:00):
I was never serious until 2017 is when I got serious.
S2 (29:04):
Serious is about five years now.
S3 (29:05):
Yes, exactly. In the not in the evening coming off
the pandemic, it was probably a year before I got
serious again.
S2 (29:10):
Yeah, no, it's just but I think everybody had that buffer.
So I think you got a little leeway.
S3 (29:14):
COVID and open mics and over makers who were like,
I am.
S2 (29:17):
To be honest though, that that that when you said
you felt that liberation or kind of that next level step.
I think that happened to me during the pandemic because
I was doing a show twice a week and nobody
else was performing. And that kind of gave me like
a a confidence or a step up or like I
felt like I was ahead of the game and I'm
still doing the little mix that they had.
S3 (29:38):
Yeah, Yeah. You know, when I came back to L.A.
from the pandemic, like, I got to start working under
the table job again. That's what helped me get back here.
I was the Comedy Store had a the kind of
had a weird potluck on Monday. You've been there, right?
The original room. And it has a glass window facing
the patio.
S2 (29:55):
Oh, yeah, I know what they had to do with
it through the glass window. Yeah, exactly. I see that
by Monday. But they did the show all over, you know,
Pink Fox. That's my thing about. Yes.
S3 (30:03):
Yes.
S2 (30:04):
Eunice showed you that. They got it.
S3 (30:06):
Yeah. So, like, welcome to our job. There was, like,
resistance training. So I was doing that and I did
a couple in.
S2 (30:11):
Parking lot mikes.
S3 (30:12):
Yeah, I did a couple mikes, but also because I,
like I said, I wasn't fully into and I'm still
sort of slightly depressed, not too serious. I wasn't going
very much. I was performing very much. So then anyway,
all that happened and then when I decided to quit
smoking cigarettes, I decided to stop watching porn. I know
that's a weird thing to say.
S2 (30:32):
No, it's not.
S3 (30:33):
Like, Oh.
S2 (30:33):
You don't understand at all these. I commend you for
being vulnerable, nigga. We all you know, I'm saying like
everybody in and did it, you know, I'm saying it's
not like a fucking summer. My keep going said, thank
you for sharing this with people because I think this
is what's important for comedians to understand that everybody is
not by themselves yet.
S3 (30:52):
And for me it was like a whole bunch of
things that I didn't like that I was doing that
I didn't feel good about. I had to just drop.
So then I stopped watching porn, stop smoking cigarettes, smoking weed,
and I started exercising. So now I'm exercising now. And
you know, and like I said, I the girl that
I was dating, I met her in a way that
made me feel the most confident and the most confident.
(31:13):
It was like in the wild. I just approached her. Yeah.
S2 (31:16):
And you stepped your game up ahead.
S3 (31:18):
Whereas before it was like I would not have had
the confidence to do that because I would have been like,
I would have.
S2 (31:23):
Talked yourself out of.
S3 (31:24):
It. Yeah, I would have made up her mind for
her instead of letting her tell me no, I would
have said no for her. And that's and that's kind
of the same thing with my comedy. So I'm I
don't know if I should do this again, not going
to like me, blah, blah, blah. So anyway, I started it.
And here's the thing. Now I'm about to start a podcast.
I think I'm going to call it weighing in, but
I now I'm trying to just keep going. So I'm
(31:45):
going to have a weight loss goal and I'm going
to track it via the podcast.
S2 (31:49):
Let's fucking do.
S3 (31:50):
It. Yeah, I'm a.
S2 (31:50):
Track, do it, I'm a I'm following it. I get
on there. I know we got to go here soon, so. Yeah, yeah,
I'm definitely following our podcast. I'm fucking with.
S3 (31:58):
It. Yeah. I mean, I think it's going to be
good and it's going to put pressure on me and
I'm already of. It's a weird because it's already I
feel the anxiety in me trying to go back to
my old trauma ways because of the pressure of having
to do it.
S2 (32:11):
And the responsibility of the book. I and it make
me feel it is. It really is. Because you be
like I did. I got eight days even like I
got seven days, I got six days. And then like, wait, still,
I started using.
S3 (32:23):
So when I first thought about it, I was so
gung ho. But then it's like all the intermittent things,
like all, all the details started.
S2 (32:31):
Near the activation energy goal when you think when the work.
S3 (32:35):
And I started tripping on my Can I do this?
Did I take on too much? But I can't not
do it because if I don't do it, then it
means I'm not going to.
S2 (32:43):
It's going to be that is going to be that
same feeling that's creeping on you. Exactly.
S3 (32:47):
Exactly, Exactly. So I got to do it, man.
S2 (32:50):
So I like Yeah, man, I love that. I love that.
S3 (32:52):
About my announcement. But yeah, so within by the beginning
of next month I do it. Yeah. I was.
S2 (32:59):
Doing Yeah. Check out way in, in your I don't
know if this will be out by next month. It might,
this might not come out for like two months so
it might, you might already be on air but it makes,
you know, check out way.
S3 (33:08):
In, it's still check out maybe a couple of episodes
to be in or.
S2 (33:10):
Okay, let me get three more minutes out of you.
What is the the who is the biggest person you
met working at the Comedy Store? Gigi's was. Yeah. It's
like the coolest or the best experience or time that
you can imagine that you've had at working at the
store or just being at the store like the most.
Gigi experience the coolest.
S3 (33:29):
Thing I really think that I like the most is
just like you get to see. I don't work at
night anymore. I worked in the day. But the coolest
thing was just to see a crazy lineup every night. Man.
It's like the best combo. Fashion. Yeah, Best of the best,
the best comedy education you could have just sitting and
watching the room.
S2 (33:48):
I felt that way, nigga. And I saw one person
a week. I can't imagine. See it. You don't see
the lineup is the top niggas little world Yeah all
in the room for 3 hours.
S3 (34:01):
Looks at I appreciate.
S2 (34:02):
Have you met anybody or had a situation where you like.
Yeah was like the craziest situation you have that you
can share. I guess.
S3 (34:08):
The craziest.
S2 (34:09):
Coolest cool.
S3 (34:10):
Crazy situation would be rest in peace. Brody When he. Oh, Brody. Yeah,
when I first started working there, it's like when he
had his manic episode where he's, like, tweeting 1500 times
a day, and that was like, super intense. That was
coming to Jersey.
S2 (34:24):
Yeah, Yeah, that was intense. Dope.
S3 (34:25):
The thing I like as far as comes I respect
is in Edwards over the spectrum because you'll see him
tell a joke that's brand new and like it doesn't
go well and he doesn't give a fuck like he
doesn't care. And then you'll see that joke three months later,
and the joke is so funny.
S2 (34:40):
And it's on a Netflix.
S3 (34:41):
Special. Yeah, it's so fine tune and so and it's
just like, Oh man, that's awesome. Neil Brennan It's probably
one of the best joke writers I've ever, just like
natural joke writer. And it never gets a guy, but
he's just not so likable, you know?
S2 (34:53):
I didn't know that, but that's his thing. No, that's
a stick. His stick is not, not the likable guy.
S3 (34:58):
If you're not likable, your jokes have to be fire. Yeah, sure.
So fucking fire that. It's like it's.
S2 (35:03):
So good that it don't matter.
S3 (35:05):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's like that is awesome to overcome.
S2 (35:08):
I met him to cool dude, man. He came down dude.
The grand like when the pandemic everybody else. Yeah and
he stayed in talk to everybody for a minute and
he was cool as dude.
S3 (35:17):
And then another cool is like Tony Hinchcliffe. It's like,
I got to be a little bit on the ground
floor with him because when I started working there, he
was still a door guy and so I watched him
imagine how things should go and just like manifest his
own future. And now he's created this huge brand.
S2 (35:34):
Oh, you know, you think?
S3 (35:35):
Yeah. And he's like, he's in with, like, Rogan, who's
a kingmaker. And it's like he's pretty much set in comedy.
And it was like, cool to see him go from
being the door guy who got fired. I believe that's
how he got fired. Yeah. Or became a paid regular.
S2 (35:47):
I didn't know that.
S3 (35:47):
And then now he's.
S2 (35:48):
Tony Hinchcliffe Yeah, exactly. Now it's cool.
S3 (35:51):
Tony. That was like, really cool to see. To watch.
S2 (35:53):
That's what's up. Yeah. Last thing was, any advice that
you got for young comedians in the game? Well, just
young comedians coming up that I guess have any doubts.
S3 (36:03):
So listen, if if you want to do first off,
make your decision to do comedy, don't halfway do it.
Don't be a hobby.
S2 (36:10):
Comment like that.
S3 (36:11):
Be 100% in and and I can I can't say
because my career isn't that great but I tell you,
the people I've.
S2 (36:16):
Seen don't laugh. They don't front you're like a risk.
S3 (36:19):
I mean, it's going much better right now. But all
the people I've seen who kind of skyrocket, what they
do is they write every day. They perform as much
as they can. And they, you know, they listen to
their sets, you know. So that's a that's a real
off the court record.
S2 (36:33):
Watch what.
S3 (36:34):
It's called. Watch it it right every day. Perform while
you can, while you're young. Why you can afford to
live sort of like a college student or almost homeless.
Do that as much as you can but take advantage
of the time, you know, don't do that. And then
party four nights a week and then do comedy three. Yeah,
do take it like it's an internship for your life.
(36:54):
You know what I mean? Like, you're going to you totally.
And yeah, because right now, when I moved into the car,
it was a it felt like I was trying to
open Mike my way out of poverty, which was like
an insane thought, especially at my age.
S2 (37:05):
But but, but fuck it though, man. I feel like
if you got to take the island, burn the fucking boats.
S3 (37:10):
Yeah, exactly.
S2 (37:11):
You know?
S3 (37:12):
Yeah.
S2 (37:12):
Yeah. It was like.
S3 (37:13):
That's it. That's what I did, man. I tried to burn.
I'm still trying to burn them now. I honestly, I
still think about. Oh, I feel like I'm too comfortable.
But lately I've been going back out.
S2 (37:23):
In a.
S3 (37:23):
Weird time.
S2 (37:24):
I feel the same way, bro. And I'm, like, doing.
I'm producing two shows and a roast battle and performing
at that and I'm like, I need to find time
to sleep. But I. Also need to work three times
as much. Yeah. Yeah. Like a.
S3 (37:37):
Weird. Exactly. You know, and all the motivational speakers I hear they're
like they hardly ever sleep. Like, they don't set alarms.
Like their body.
S2 (37:44):
Yeah. I'll wake up and I'll be there. Everytime is my nigga, man.
But at five in the morning, be hurting my.
S3 (37:49):
Yeah, it hurts.
S2 (37:51):
Yeah. I just got to sleep at one I just left it.
S3 (37:53):
Right. Exactly. This midnight Mike. I do like almost four
times a week. Like, sometimes I get up to one
and then I have to get home and get to
bed by two. And now I'm trying to wake up
at seven. 730.
S2 (38:04):
I'm tired.
S3 (38:05):
To walk in, to swim before work, you.
S2 (38:07):
Know. Swim?
S3 (38:08):
Yeah. That's sort of, you know, So it's it's crazy.
S2 (38:11):
But still, you know, I appreciate you get on a podcast.
This has been let us look I'm sorry for holding
you a little longer. We've got to go do a
show next, so. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be lit.
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Still slaying them jokes.
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S2 (00:30):
What's good y'all. Welcome back to another episode of Hilariously Blunt it's your
host Walter for sponsored by March and Ash. Shout out
to OLAS Media. Appreciate y'all . Today is one of
the most fire episodes, man. I got a fellow co-worker.
I used to work at the Comedy Store up until
about a month ago. I just told him, But this
guy came all the way down from L.A. doing some work,
(00:52):
and I had to get him on to show man
one of the fire comedians who has seen this at Albuquerque.
Y'all make some noise, start digitally clapping all around. My guy,
Quincy Weekley.
S3 (01:04):
Yeah. Hey, what's up?
S2 (01:05):
I like that intro. Then, you nigger. I was thinking
about that. And on the way up here.
S3 (01:09):
You know, don't get don't get their hopes up too much.
Indeed. But I'm glad to have you on the show, bro.
Thanks. I'm gonna be in a podcast. Yeah.
S2 (01:20):
Talk to everybody man, what's up with you? Where you from? like,
You been doing comedy. Where you at?
S3 (01:24):
What's new, man? That's a it's a long story. So,
I mean, it's going to go all the way back.
I'm originally going to I'm originally from Arkansas, so I'm
like a Southern boy, right?
S2 (01:32):
Yeah, I know. You're from there
S3 (01:32):
South. Yeah, originally from Arkansas, but I've been in California
a long time.
S2 (01:36):
Okay. Okay.
S3 (01:37):
I went to junior high and high school and some
college in the Bay Area in San Jose. So that's
generally where I tell people I'm from.
S2 (01:43):
So you, you went to college in the bay. Could
you send for going to Arkansas State?
S3 (01:48):
Yeah, well I mean we junior high and high school
and some college we my mom moved us out here,
me and my brother.
S2 (01:53):
Oh, you said junior high. Oh, yeah. She moved to
middle school.
S3 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Middle school, high school. Yeah.
S2 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah.
S3 (02:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
S2 (02:01):
I mean, real quick, know resolve. When did we got cool then? did I meet
you during the pandemic. or I think it was before.
S3 (02:06):
I think it was, I want to say, before the pandemic.
S2 (02:09):
Before the pandemic.
S3 (02:10):
So around the 2017, it has to do with, like me,
you know, my comedy career. 2017, I started coming to
San Diego, a good friend of mine, Trey Stewart. You know,
I'm obviously.
S2 (02:22):
Yep. Yeah, yeah. We fire.
S3 (02:23):
Now. Yeah, yeah. You just got passed to a seller So yeah
S2 (02:26):
Go say you say that the other day. I say bro.
Yeah. He basically moved to New York because you know
there are go to where you wanted and you know
he got best seller what's her name Etsy is the
you know the booker that talent coordinator there she really
likes him she's giving her lots of spots so and
he wants to do comedy so that's in New York
so that's.
Fire shout out to my guy Trey Stewart man yeah. Real quick
(02:48):
story of him He was the first dude I saw
when I moved here and I moved in 16, which
is when you talk about 17. I moved here at 16.
He was the first dude I thought I was like.
Like black dad was like taking it serious and was
actually... try a new shit consistently. If that makes sense. You
know what I'm saying? Like you could tell them motherfuckers I
was really trying to work it because I do a
(03:09):
new shit like it
S3 (03:09):
Like, Yeah, he's a he's a real cop. Like, he's
in it For the love of comedy. He works harder
than like anyone I've really seen, to be perfectly honest.
And he got really funny in San Diego. There's a
lot of.
S2 (03:20):
Picked that up.
S3 (03:21):
There's a lot of quality stage time to pick up.
What do you mean?
S2 (03:23):
What did you pick up? Any advice or what Inequality.
He's I guess he.
S3 (03:27):
Was a door guy at the Comedy Store for a
little bit. So that's how we met Yeah, I was
there and then he worked for a little bit. But in.
S2 (03:32):
Hollywood.
S3 (03:33):
Yeah, he was a terrible employee.
S2 (03:34):
Though. I'm dead, I' dead, that's funny as hell. I'm good.
S3 (03:36):
So I mean, I mean, I've told him so it's.
I don't feel like I'm talking shit but yeah. Employee
But he is like a savant in comedy, you know
what I'm saying? That that's what he was meant to do.
And so it was never meant to have a job. Really.
S2 (03:50):
A is half and half. Half and half. Yeah. Because
I really liked working there. But I also was like, Damn,
And I don't like work here. But it was, it
wasn't the fact of the job itself. It was the
fact of watching everybody do what I wanted to do.
You know what I'm saying? It wasn't like because of
the thing, it was like, cause I'm like, I'm not
going to be on stage right now. Not picking up his garbage.
S3 (04:11):
Yeah, exactly. Well, there's also a thing of, like, getting
when you get started, like, really young, if you know
you want to do it really young, it's easier to
live like a college student in the beginning, you know
what I'm saying?
S2 (04:20):
Rather than in your 30, 35?
S3 (04:22):
Yeah, when you like.
S2 (04:23):
Don't do that.
S3 (04:24):
It's a little bit harder for like, yeah, it's a
bit harder for them to bite the bullet and really
create time to only do comedy and live sort of meager,
not be as comfortable. Could you get used to being comfortable?
S2 (04:36):
Was really did you go to that? Did you go
to their face?
S3 (04:38):
Okay, so.
S2 (04:39):
You're.
S3 (04:39):
Hungry face again, 15 to 2017. I was really comfortable.
I had one roommate who was a friend of mine.
I lived in a two bedroom apartment, had the master bedroom,
secured parking. I drove a BMW. And for all you
people who don't live in Los Angeles, that's like, pretty comfortable.
S2 (04:53):
Oh, yeah. He basically you you got. Okay, first off,
a two bedroom apartment is 2500 or an hour unless
you in the hood.
S3 (05:02):
Yeah they in in North Hollywood it was.
S2 (05:04):
Okay but.
S3 (05:05):
He had been there for a.
S2 (05:05):
While. 1892. Grant is still a lot.
S3 (05:09):
Yeah, exactly. And like I said, I was going to
have the master bedroom. He was a friend of mine,
so it wasn't a stranger. So the house was comfortable.
But I went through like a real serious depression in
from 2000, 15, 2000, 17. Really, really bad. Yeah.
S2 (05:23):
Were you comedy or post?
S3 (05:24):
No, I'm still doing comedy, but I wasn't doing comedy. Yeah. Yeah.
At this time, what happened was I got hired at
the Comedy Store in Hollywood 2011 by the old talent coordinator,
Tommy Morris. Right.
S2 (05:36):
You was there with Tommy? Yes.
S3 (05:38):
Yeah, exactly.
S2 (05:40):
I started doing comedy, too, like I made in 2012.
So you was.
S3 (05:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he got fired, and then the
new guy came in and I sort of lost my way.
I didn't know where it was and what I wanted
to do, and I wasn't one of the new guys. Guys,
you know?
S2 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
S3 (05:58):
So I kind of lost my way, and then, you know,
I became, you know, seriously depressed. I was just like,
We all.
S2 (06:03):
Go do it, bro.
S3 (06:04):
Yeah. All I would do is I worked at it
on the table, the job and under the table job.
So I worked there a couple times a week and
I was plenty of money to live by. To live with.
To live on.
S2 (06:15):
Yeah.
S3 (06:15):
Yeah.
S2 (06:15):
And then I could survive. Yeah.
S3 (06:17):
And then I worked at the Comedy Store basically once
a month, and I was performing like once a month
for like two and a half years. So I wasn't
in comedy.
S2 (06:23):
Oh, shit, nigga, that's crazy. And I cannot imagine it.
And this is 2012.
S3 (06:28):
This is like.
S2 (06:30):
13, 20.
S3 (06:30):
Like 2015.
S2 (06:32):
15.
S3 (06:32):
Yeah.
S2 (06:33):
Your, my bet you did say 15.
S3 (06:34):
20, 15, 17, like maybe even early 2014. Yeah. It
was like about three years working once a month anyway.
And so I was at the point where I felt like, okay,
if I don't change, I feel like I literally was
kind of going to die. I know it's we're doing,
but not like I was dying on the inside. I
was it was like I.
S2 (06:52):
Was going to say, it's like a slow drip. Yeah, exactly.
It's like, it's almost like a poison. Like, it's not instant.
It's like a it's like a.
S3 (06:59):
Yeah, I wasn't living. I was like, waiting to die
is what kind of wet describe it. And so I
knew myself. I knew that if I had the chance to,
you know, become lazy or to not do something, I
would take it. So I put my back against the wall.
S2 (07:14):
So this is good real quick, but I don't want
to cut you off because this is what a butter is.
I think this is fire because a lot of people,
I think especially even if it's not just comedy, just
in anything in entertainment or art field, like niggas don't
realize or people don't realize that it's it's a it's
a sacrifice. Yeah. Yeah. And you may not necessarily you
you figured out what works best for you. You have
(07:35):
to put yourself in a back against the wall situation
to come out and I lowkey be doing the same thing.
On to procrastinations way and a lot of people don't
realize they're like. You don't just wake up and be like,
I'm happy as fuck every day. You know what I'm saying?
Especially in something that takes a long time to get
past that threshold my nigga.
S3 (07:56):
It really took a while.
S2 (07:58):
Yeah. So my bad for getting you out?
S3 (07:59):
No, that's okay. So what I did is I bought
a minivan and I moved into the minivan. My friend
ended up moving back home and he was like, Just
wait until, you know, July two. I move back home.
Give me that much time. I was like, okay, So
I save a little bit of money. So I got
a gym membership and I bought a storage unit to
put myself in. And I moved into the minivan. And
(08:20):
then I started doing comedy pretty serious. Like my plan
was to go up at least twice a night and
I average probably 9 to 14 times a week, sometimes
more than.
S2 (08:33):
You know, you did all this nice room, man.
S3 (08:35):
And it was tough because it honestly, it took like
a year before I could feel the difference. And I'm
so happy that I survived that year.
S2 (08:43):
Real quick. Let's not fast forward past that. What would
you say was the straw that broke the camel's back?
That made you because. Because that's like a radical. Like
you were like, fuck this. And I became a new
you know, I'm saying, what do you think was the
straw that like? I don't know. Got the activation energy started.
S3 (09:03):
I really felt like a bit of it. Really felt
like it was life or death right there. And it
was felt it was felt like life or death in
a very real way. And also, I'm like, what else
am I going to do? And by the way.
S2 (09:14):
I'm kind of feeling that right now, but I feel
like I'm up to 30.
S3 (09:17):
And here's the crazy part is like, I'm not young.
I'm old, man. I'm 45 right now. So when I.
S2 (09:22):
Moved, Are you black nigga? 45 is a new 38. Yeah.
S3 (09:26):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think most black comics, most
black entertainers make it when they're older. And you kind
of have to be undeniable in a lot of ways.
S2 (09:35):
Yeah. Oh, definitely We could. That's it. Yeah, every way.
S3 (09:38):
I mean, it's not like. I mean, Jerrod and Jack night,
you know, there are both kind of exceptions, you know,
They're not.
S2 (09:44):
It's a few people that are anomalies.
S3 (09:45):
Yeah. Yeah. You know.
S2 (09:46):
Like. Like Dave. I mean, I mean, if we're talking
to older people, you know, Dave, Eddie, they never had jobs. Yeah,
they never have.
S3 (09:54):
Eddie. I mean, he was like, he's like Chris.
S2 (09:55):
Rock, like, 14. There's a rock.
S3 (09:57):
Star. Yeah.
S2 (09:58):
He's 18. He was a.
S3 (09:59):
Rock. Yeah. Yeah.
S2 (09:59):
I just think it was, you know, like, no.
S3 (10:01):
One's really done that since. Yeah, I think even Gerard
is very special was on HBO, but it's like by
the time he did that, Eddie Murphy had already had two.
S2 (10:09):
Oh yeah. No, 100%.
S3 (10:10):
Yeah. That age is.
S2 (10:11):
Not coming back around. You're not doing that again.
S3 (10:13):
Yeah. So anyway, I moved into the van and I
started performing and then I just started going to it hard.
And then like I said, Trey, it's been a lot
of time down here. There's a lot of quality time
in San Diego. So I started coming down with him,
sleeping in my bed, you know, showering at the gym.
S2 (10:27):
And I was just so crazy.
S3 (10:28):
Doing shows for free. So, you know, Maria Herman does
the comedy I chose.
S2 (10:33):
Yeah, bro, I just did heights Not sure.
S3 (10:35):
What feature in the night he get me a guest
spot basically for kind of giving them a ride of
course And then I would do well and then like,
they would have me back.
S2 (10:42):
Bring you back because you busted.
S3 (10:43):
Yeah. And then, you know, the madhouse, and then, you know,
all the other independent shows.
S2 (10:47):
You would just be around. Yeah, you was around in
the community when.
S3 (10:50):
I was doing, you know, And every time I got
an opportunity, I took advantage of it because I've been
working hard and, you know, I got invited back.
S2 (10:55):
Real quick. I also know we going forward, but I
also don't want to skip this part because I feel
like this is a real good tune. When you said it,
it took about a year until I saw a difference. Yeah,
but you was going up because I think people don't
realize this is also a part of a too fam.
People think that you could do it once a week
or two, three times a week even. Nigga. No, my
(11:18):
my mentor who opens for Kat was like, You need
to get up. At least you need to minimum have
a microphone in your hand speaking into it six times
a week minimum.
S3 (11:28):
Yeah.
S2 (11:28):
And that's like floor level. And you said you was
going 9 to 14.
S3 (11:34):
Yeah I would, Yeah. Out nine or 14. There's one
Mike that was in L.A. that it went to like
two or three in the morning. So I ended every
night there. There are some days I would get three,
sometimes four in four spots in, in one day. But yeah,
I would do like nine, sometimes like 16 spots in
a week. I would.
S2 (11:53):
Do. And you kept that job. How did you afford
to live?
S3 (11:57):
I kept the job at the store. I worked at
the under-the-table, Under-the-table job.
S2 (12:01):
That's what I met. So you kept a job? Just
lived in a van, and.
S3 (12:03):
I didn't even nearly need to. I end up going
down to, like, one day a week there.
S2 (12:07):
Yeah, because. Because your. I presume your cost of living
was low, nigga, Buying food and gas.
S3 (12:11):
Yeah, exactly. And, you.
S2 (12:13):
Know, little shit.
S3 (12:13):
It was like paying for, you know, meals, gas, the storage,
insurance and my phone. It was pretty it was a
it was not a lot of overhead. So it allowed
me time, you know, to do a lot of comedy.
I took advantage of it.
S2 (12:27):
And and in that in that year. What do you
think was the. What was the feeling you had when
you started to feel like you got it? You know,
I'm saying like, I feel like we all feel that
point where we start to get comfortable or like, fine,
I almost say, find your voice as cliche as fuck,
but find your voice, I guess.
S3 (12:47):
I mean, I just because it so it's like repetition,
You know what to think. So I started doing it
so much and I've been in so many good situations
and so many bad situations that they didn't have a
big as big an effect on me anymore.
S2 (13:00):
Exactly. You could play the line in the middle.
S3 (13:02):
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And there are still some situations like,
you know, the last couple of times I showcase at
the Comedy Store, it didn't go so well because I
let my nerves get the better of me.
S2 (13:11):
Oh, yeah, that's the thing.
S3 (13:11):
That kind of thing.
S2 (13:12):
But that day, I just did the same thing. Like
I did a show the day before at Mic Drop.
I got I got to take you to my Dropbox.
S3 (13:19):
I did, like, a month ago.
S2 (13:20):
Oh, yeah, it's great. Hell, yeah. You got a stop pillow.
I plug you in. I did a show there before.
The day before. Murdered in full murder. Best nigga there.
It was a competition. I came in first, and the
next day, or like, two days later, it was like
Laugh after dark going on tour to, like, pick up people. Yeah,
(13:40):
I was nervous then. As a matter of fact, I go, Wow, How?
But how did you didn't. Day was looking for me.
S3 (13:47):
You didn't do what? You know you can do that.
S2 (13:49):
Yeah. Yeah. It's that's.
S3 (13:50):
Part of the game and it's it's mental.
S2 (13:52):
Right is mental mental.
S3 (13:54):
So I also I have to say this. It wasn't
just me. I also started seeing a therapist because I
knew that I had already been isolating myself in 2015
and 17. I'd already been isolating myself. So now I
moved until then. So it was a potential to be
a lot worse.
S2 (14:10):
That's really.
S3 (14:11):
Good. At the start, I started seeing a therapist.
S2 (14:14):
I just start going back to therapy last week on Monday.
S3 (14:16):
Brody Yeah, I.
S2 (14:17):
Thought that black man getting help, right? Yeah. Yeah. If
he's real.
S3 (14:20):
Yeah. And, you know, because it was, you know, we're
in a black community, it's different now, you know, it's
a little bit not as frowned upon, but before it
was like, Oh, you're a pussy. You going to Their
boss was wrong.
S2 (14:30):
Yeah, you definitely was a bit be.
S3 (14:32):
Strong in the.
S2 (14:32):
Nineties. You definitely was a bitch.
S3 (14:34):
Yeah. And it's and so there's like a stigma surrounding it,
but I'm like this is life or death, so I
don't care what people think. I know what I have
to do to make myself mentally healthy and be able
to take this undertaking. And, you know, it worked out well.
And then even so, things got better and things got
a lot better. Like before the pandemic. That was the
(14:54):
first year I had to file taxes as a comic
because I got picked up by Brad Williams, the host.
So I hosted it for him basically at every local improv,
also San Jose improv, because I'm from there. So I
was like, Hey, I can do that. I have a
place to stay. All that you don't have to worry
about putting me up.
S2 (15:09):
You're not. I will do.
S3 (15:11):
That, man. He's the man.
S2 (15:12):
He's a beast, man. He's a fucking.
S3 (15:14):
Beast. He's a beast. I don't know how person Beast
of a person.
S2 (15:16):
Yeah, I don't. I never got to meet him personally,
but he's funny in the medium.
S3 (15:19):
He's like, the nicest guy. And, you know, so many
headliners have so many. Like, you can't do this. Joe
can't do that. Joe can submerge, like, whatever. He's none
of that.
S2 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
S3 (15:29):
Yeah. Because I'm a professional, and these are my I'm.
S2 (15:32):
Going to do what I want to do.
S3 (15:33):
Comes up and.
S2 (15:34):
I'm going to get my shit off.
S3 (15:35):
Anyway. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, so it's like, it's
really refreshing and it's great. And luckily, you know, his
feature is J.B. Ball, who's also. We've all become friends.
S2 (15:44):
Oh, shit. You know, I think. Oh, I just see.
And he was doing a theatre somewhere. I just did it.
Theater in.
S3 (15:50):
Fresno?
S2 (15:51):
Yeah, I just did a show with Mark Curry. I
produced the show at Mark Curry and I see him
on there. That's where JP borrowed, like I said. Yeah,
I had to look him up. I never seen him.
S3 (15:59):
He's funny. He's from Tampa, Florida, and he's like, he's
he's recording this month. He'll be recording a special. Yeah,
he's going to start headlining more. So now I'm in
line to start featuring for Brad because Debbie will be
headlining more and Dave's also a friend of mine, so
hopefully I'll pick up.
S2 (16:14):
Some swag on him tonight. So playing next.
S3 (16:17):
Week, you know, getting out there and get yourself out
there helps. Bill Yeah, and here's, here's the crazy part.
I mean, did you want to ask them, Look.
S2 (16:22):
No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to you go.
S3 (16:24):
So things are better. And then pandemic, right? The pandemic
got kind of lost again because it was like I
was identified as a comic and I couldn't do one week.
S2 (16:33):
I know, bro, to have the weirdest time, nigga.
S3 (16:36):
So it's like, I don't know what to do. So
I stayed in my mom's house for like nine months
in a pandemic. She didn't know about.
S2 (16:41):
The San Jose or. Yeah, be.
S3 (16:42):
Here. Yeah, she in Hayward says they were. No, she
didn't know that. I lived in my and my sister
didn't know. My family didn't know. They still don't know. Really?
S2 (16:50):
Really?
S3 (16:51):
Yeah. Because I didn't want to tell them. Of course
it would just be.
S2 (16:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well fucking be looking at if they
know it's weird because people in the game don't really
understand the sacrifices for the game. You know, I'm saying
it because Angela and The Gap I share, I moved
here 15 or 16, I got 1617. I was a
year and a half ago sleeping in every hostel in
San Diego. Had to sleep on a trolley station a
(17:15):
couple times. Yeah, No, they're good.
S3 (17:18):
It's really crazy like what you have to do. And
it's and then when you see people who have support
from their parents and it's like nothing against them, but
oftentimes they don't take advantage of it.
S2 (17:26):
Man, nigger, bro. If if I didn't have to pay
rent for like two months, I will be three years
ahead of the game.
S3 (17:35):
We say like because they're always used is like this
crystal clear. Crystal is that like directed friends his that.
S2 (17:42):
Oh yeah, he was rich. Yeah.
S3 (17:43):
He came but Chris was out there hitting the mikes
and he took advantage of his opportunity. And that's how
he got so funny. He didn't, like, sit back and
just like, we didn't bullshit. He did not bullshit. And
he got really funny. Funny? Fuck, yeah, exactly.
S2 (17:56):
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turn to Billy.
S3 (18:19):
You know, this is the funniest part because it's been
like six weeks and five days and I quit smoking
cigarettes and weed.
S2 (18:27):
Oh, you did both.
S3 (18:27):
But yeah, but the funny thing is, like, now there's
always the best weed around you.
S2 (18:34):
When you quit something.
S3 (18:36):
It was like, Oh, you want some firearms, weed that,
you know, you smoke it and you forget your name
and like your family.
S2 (18:42):
You make you want to smoke and wake up in
1776 because.
S3 (18:48):
You want to raise your memory like a hard day. Like, yeah,
but then like, no, I can't because I just, you know,
I told myself I was going to stop real quick.
S2 (18:57):
Let's talk about this. This sobriety you got going on.
Is that is that temporary? Did it?
S3 (19:02):
So I think I'm probably going to smoke weed again.
The cigarettes is what I really don't want to smoke anymore.
But it's kind of if I could try to shorten
this big story the beginning of the year. So anyways,
when I started, you know, when I started, when a
minivan started, yeah, my back.
S2 (19:19):
We'll get to that. We'll get to the sobriety.
S3 (19:20):
Just it's, it's important to the story. Kind of like
I hadn't really I felt really good at depression was
really reduced significantly and I was just feeling good about
myself and I was motivated and, you know, accomplishing things.
S2 (19:34):
I love to put out as a black.
S3 (19:35):
Man. And it was and it was great. So I
didn't really have any I had, you know, a couple
down times, but nothing serious like 2000.
S2 (19:43):
You were human, you know, you were here we are.
S3 (19:44):
So beginning of this year, it came back.
S2 (19:47):
All.
S3 (19:48):
Right. And what was happening is my shows weren't going
so well.
S2 (19:52):
I was going to ask you that. Did it affect
your comedy? Yeah.
S3 (19:55):
It wasn't really. It was like my comedy affected it.
Not it affected my comedy. Mhm. What I kind of learned. Yeah.
And I, and I could not understand why because I'd
had a lot of success. Things are going well and
I was like I couldn't understand why I was having
trouble getting to the next level or why I was
failing in a bunch of these situations where I should
have been excelling and I figured it out and I
(20:16):
thought I was connecting with the audience, but I was
creating a barrier to keep myself safe. And that's what
was happening to me. We do comedy. You know how
even though an audience is a bunch of individuals with
a bunch of individual sense of humor and personalities, they
become one. Yeah.
S2 (20:34):
I think.
S3 (20:35):
And as a group, they were picking up on the
fact that I was being sort of shallow in a
lot of ways.
S2 (20:40):
Man, this one thing real quick that that's the one
thing I feel like especially with what we do, you
can never fake the funk.
S3 (20:48):
Yeah.
S2 (20:48):
Is genuineness. Like you can never.
S3 (20:50):
I mean there's some comics who their style is that
and I think if that's your style to be sort
of such different, but I wasn't trying to do that.
S2 (20:57):
Yeah, but I think even with that, people know what
they're into are people who are coming for the character. Yeah,
if that makes sense. You know what I'm saying? Like,
even if.
S3 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
S2 (21:08):
If your, your stick is of character or like a
whatever the fuck people are coming because they like that.
But nine times out of ten at least comedy in
our age, day and age like it's about the genuineness
or the Yeah, humanness.
S3 (21:21):
Authentic being real and it comedy at the Comedy Store,
they nurture that and they don't let you do comedy
stores and let you get away with shit would bullshit.
S2 (21:30):
Man. I'm really that's what I want to hear, man,
because I want to get up there. I'm really salty
that I did work at the Comedy Store and go
to L.A. more, nigga.
S3 (21:37):
Yeah, I mean, it's it it really does like the
original room of the Comedy Store in Hollywood. Kind of.
It's like, think of yourself as an onion, and you
go there and it just starts peeling away the layers
until it gets to the core, and then you become real.
So what happened was, I thought I thought I was connecting,
but I was creating a barrier. And and by the way,
this barrier was throughout all my relationships, not just on comedy.
S2 (21:59):
So it trickled, it trickled into other every.
S3 (22:01):
Little aspect of my relationship, like dating, you know, friendships,
everything was sort of was sort of on that.
S2 (22:07):
Downward spiral. Yeah.
S3 (22:08):
And it wasn't it wasn't authentic. I was like, yes,
it was.
S2 (22:11):
It wasn't present.
S3 (22:12):
Yeah, I wasn't present. And I was trying to be
safe and I wasn't exposed. I wasn't vulnerable.
S2 (22:17):
That's the word. That's the word right there. And that's,
I think, as black me And that's also is it.
Comedy is like a weird paradox because you have to
be vulnerable. Yeah. And as niggas, you have to not
be vulnerable.
S3 (22:30):
Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, you have to be strong
and resilient. That's all right. I say that when I
talk about my therapy joke, you know.
S2 (22:36):
Yeah, that is a thing.
S3 (22:37):
You hear the thing that Richard Pryor says, you know,
toward the end of his life, he said, I just
wish I would have been more vulnerable on stage. And
this is a black guy in the seventies talking about
having sex with another dude, which is like, yeah, to
this day.
S2 (22:48):
You don't do.
S3 (22:50):
Anything. But he wanted to be more vulnerable. And I
think I'm.
S2 (22:53):
Told that because he was on fire.
S3 (22:55):
Yeah.
S2 (22:55):
Sucking dick.
S3 (22:56):
Yeah, exactly. Which is like before it was like even
close to being okay in the black community anyway.
S2 (23:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
S3 (23:03):
So anyway, the point was one of the biggest things
was my age. I was afraid to talk about how
old I was because I felt like I wasn't accomplished.
And then people would judge me.
S2 (23:16):
Like you felt like you weren't where you needed to
be at the age that you were at.
S3 (23:19):
Exactly. I felt like I was a real lack of
success that age that I was that I'm.
S2 (23:23):
Going through that right now. Bro, can you speak on that?
Because I'm my 30th birthday, nigga. It's in 12 days
and I feel that same way.
S3 (23:30):
I mean, honestly, I would say you're 30. You still
have plenty of time, but like, that's my perspective. But now,
of course, it's like it's never too late to do
what you love and to go after it. So as
long as you're on that path and you feel like
you're doing everything you can to achieve your goals, you're fine. Yeah.
I mean, I listen to a lot of inspirational speakers now.
S2 (23:50):
All I do every day and I do every day.
S3 (23:52):
Yeah. And it's just like it and it's all about. Yeah,
just be on your grind. Forget about the naysaying in
your head and change Like you change your DNA in
a way. I mean.
S2 (24:01):
Yeah.
S3 (24:02):
Really, I'm, I have a lot of issues and every
time I wake up in the morning, it's like I'm
thinking negative. I'm thinking all that stuff. But as soon
as I started talking about my age and I did
it at the Comedy Store in the original room in
front of my co-workers.
S2 (24:16):
Oh, you do? Where I say.
S3 (24:17):
All my coworkers who are probably, you know, at least
ten years younger.
S2 (24:20):
Go, Yeah, hold them niggas. Yeah. The young bulls.
S3 (24:23):
In front of the talent coordinator who I was afraid
who I've been like, I've been lying to everyone, you know,
and it's either a straight up lie or a life
of omission. Like, I didn't bring it up. Exactly. So
I talked about it and I talked about because I
had a joke about why I'm single and I'm single
because I'm picky, but I'm fat. And that's a terrible combination.
S2 (24:42):
Right? It's like it's true.
S3 (24:44):
But it's just scratching the surface. Like the really it's
like I have abandonment issues, so it makes me clingy
and codependent.
S2 (24:50):
And and that's the real me.
S3 (24:51):
And that's the real me.
S2 (24:52):
That's the real.
S3 (24:53):
Yeah. And the joke that I got from that is
much better, even though it's I haven't really delved into yet.
But the joke now is like and women can smell
that a mile away. It's like I walk, it's like
they walk into a room, I know somebody in here
is horny and said, you know, we should leave, you know,
saying like and that's and it's sort of the truth.
So anyway, I started talking about I took that monkey
and it wasn't a monkey. It was a gorilla. Yeah,
(25:13):
it was a big silverback. I took it off my
back and I was sort of upset because I'm like, Oh,
no one put that there except.
S2 (25:20):
Yourself, man. We are our own worst fucking enemies, bro.
S3 (25:24):
Yes.
S2 (25:25):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'll be honest with you, Quincy. Bro,
you really. I needed to hear this today, nigga, because
I'm going to that same type of issue right now. Fam, man,
that is with my mama. Like my mom have bipolar
schizophrenia died. I had to go to the hospital, pull
the plug. She was a vegetable, like, oh.
S3 (25:40):
Man, a.
S2 (25:41):
Whole bunch of whole bunch of shit that I never
I kind of went through the shit and came back
to California and we right back to work. I didn't process.
S3 (25:49):
And you're pretty young to have to deal with that.
S2 (25:51):
And I never and I never have said it on stage, bro.
And when I kind of inkling a little bit like,
you know, use a little bit of edge and it
was almost like a liberation or like a freeing, you
know what I did you feel that? You know that?
S3 (26:04):
Yeah. You know what I liken it to? It's it's
like you ever if criminal activity right You never do
criminal activity with someone who you know don't know if
they've done it.
S2 (26:16):
You think that you're on the fence. Yeah. You're doing
it for nobody or.
S3 (26:20):
You may have they've done dirt. It's like, let's do dirt.
And so what happens is I think when you're real honest,
the audience trust you more because it's like, so now
they understand that you don't think you're better than them,
that you're flawed just as far as they are. And
so that creates a real connection. A real bond.
S2 (26:35):
Exactly. And it creates like a, uh, atmosphere of openness
or atmosphere. Like I say, like we're safe.
S3 (26:44):
A lack of judgment. Yeah. And it's just an experience
and exactly a present experience as well. It's like everyone
is in the room now together.
S2 (26:51):
And you feel like that's what happened when you started
talking about your age.
S3 (26:53):
That's exactly what happened. All right. And so instantly in
that when I say when I say instantly, Walter, instantly,
my comedy got better instantly, like my my depression lifted.
S2 (27:05):
We've been doing all right now. And I often do
that instantly.
S3 (27:08):
And I say instantly, okay. And then like maybe a
half after that, I got an offer to write a
packet to be a writer on the game show. Okay,
first time offer. I didn't know I could do it.
I was afraid I fucking murdered that packet. I didn't
get the job. But the head writer's.
S2 (27:24):
Confidence that you.
S3 (27:25):
Had.
S2 (27:26):
Confidence.
S3 (27:26):
I didn't know I could do it and I did
it and I murdered it. I did. Well, my packet
was better than the sample packet they sent you, right?
I didn't get the job. What? And then like a
week and a half after that, I told you, women
have been like a trigger to relationships. I met this
this beautiful girl. And like, we we dated for, like,
a month, and it didn't work out, you know?
S2 (27:45):
But it was the step, though. It was the all
the progress is happiness.
S3 (27:48):
Yes. It was like all those things that I wanted
and desired that I thought I couldn't have. I realized
that I could have. And and and actually, I kind
of had them from the brief amount of time. And
it's like, if you want to say God or whoever
you believe in, it's like he put the he dangle
the carried out in front of me. And it's like
he only gave me a whiff or he let me
lick it to taste the flavor. And then he put
(28:09):
it too far, the sort of have to chase it, you.
S2 (28:12):
Know what I mean? So now you got to get
the fuck up.
S3 (28:14):
So now I've got to get the fuck I got
to chase that carrot. And so anyway, once I found
out that that was the reason for the depression and
for all these things in my life, it was easy
to fix things. So that whole big circle. Now we're
going back to the quitting. So I'm like, okay, yeah,
I quit smoking weed and cigarettes because like, I had
been something I want to do for a while. Smoke
(28:35):
weed for a long time, cigarettes. I smoke for a
long time. And I was like, Yeah, go ahead real quick.
S2 (28:40):
How long have you been doing doing comedy by the
end that you decided because quitting this is recent, like 20, 2020.
I quit as long as six weeks ago.
S3 (28:48):
This was about six weeks ago.
S2 (28:49):
How long have you been doing comedy? We haven't even
reached that.
S3 (28:52):
I mean, that's I've been doing comedy probably like 15 years, man.
S2 (28:55):
15 years.
S3 (28:56):
And but most of it was I was.
S2 (28:57):
On a couple of years, was on and off. Like
you said.
S3 (29:00):
I was never serious until 2017 is when I got serious.
S2 (29:04):
Serious is about five years now.
S3 (29:05):
Yes, exactly. In the not in the evening coming off
the pandemic, it was probably a year before I got
serious again.
S2 (29:10):
Yeah, no, it's just but I think everybody had that buffer.
So I think you got a little leeway.
S3 (29:14):
COVID and open mics and over makers who were like,
I am.
S2 (29:17):
To be honest though, that that that when you said
you felt that liberation or kind of that next level step.
I think that happened to me during the pandemic because
I was doing a show twice a week and nobody
else was performing. And that kind of gave me like
a a confidence or a step up or like I
felt like I was ahead of the game and I'm
still doing the little mix that they had.
S3 (29:38):
Yeah, Yeah. You know, when I came back to L.A.
from the pandemic, like, I got to start working under
the table job again. That's what helped me get back here.
I was the Comedy Store had a the kind of
had a weird potluck on Monday. You've been there, right?
The original room. And it has a glass window facing
the patio.
S2 (29:55):
Oh, yeah, I know what they had to do with
it through the glass window. Yeah, exactly. I see that
by Monday. But they did the show all over, you know,
Pink Fox. That's my thing about. Yes.
S3 (30:03):
Yes.
S2 (30:04):
Eunice showed you that. They got it.
S3 (30:06):
Yeah. So, like, welcome to our job. There was, like,
resistance training. So I was doing that and I did
a couple in.
S2 (30:11):
Parking lot mikes.
S3 (30:12):
Yeah, I did a couple mikes, but also because I,
like I said, I wasn't fully into and I'm still
sort of slightly depressed, not too serious. I wasn't going
very much. I was performing very much. So then anyway,
all that happened and then when I decided to quit
smoking cigarettes, I decided to stop watching porn. I know
that's a weird thing to say.
S2 (30:32):
No, it's not.
S3 (30:33):
Like, Oh.
S2 (30:33):
You don't understand at all these. I commend you for
being vulnerable, nigga. We all you know, I'm saying like
everybody in and did it, you know, I'm saying it's
not like a fucking summer. My keep going said, thank
you for sharing this with people because I think this
is what's important for comedians to understand that everybody is
not by themselves yet.
S3 (30:52):
And for me it was like a whole bunch of
things that I didn't like that I was doing that
I didn't feel good about. I had to just drop.
So then I stopped watching porn, stop smoking cigarettes, smoking weed,
and I started exercising. So now I'm exercising now. And
you know, and like I said, I the girl that
I was dating, I met her in a way that
made me feel the most confident and the most confident.
(31:13):
It was like in the wild. I just approached her. Yeah.
S2 (31:16):
And you stepped your game up ahead.
S3 (31:18):
Whereas before it was like I would not have had
the confidence to do that because I would have been like,
I would have.
S2 (31:23):
Talked yourself out of.
S3 (31:24):
It. Yeah, I would have made up her mind for
her instead of letting her tell me no, I would
have said no for her. And that's and that's kind
of the same thing with my comedy. So I'm I
don't know if I should do this again, not going
to like me, blah, blah, blah. So anyway, I started it.
And here's the thing. Now I'm about to start a podcast.
I think I'm going to call it weighing in, but
I now I'm trying to just keep going. So I'm
(31:45):
going to have a weight loss goal and I'm going
to track it via the podcast.
S2 (31:49):
Let's fucking do.
S3 (31:50):
It. Yeah, I'm a.
S2 (31:50):
Track, do it, I'm a I'm following it. I get
on there. I know we got to go here soon, so. Yeah, yeah,
I'm definitely following our podcast. I'm fucking with.
S3 (31:58):
It. Yeah. I mean, I think it's going to be
good and it's going to put pressure on me and
I'm already of. It's a weird because it's already I
feel the anxiety in me trying to go back to
my old trauma ways because of the pressure of having
to do it.
S2 (32:11):
And the responsibility of the book. I and it make
me feel it is. It really is. Because you be
like I did. I got eight days even like I
got seven days, I got six days. And then like, wait, still,
I started using.
S3 (32:23):
So when I first thought about it, I was so
gung ho. But then it's like all the intermittent things,
like all, all the details started.
S2 (32:31):
Near the activation energy goal when you think when the work.
S3 (32:35):
And I started tripping on my Can I do this?
Did I take on too much? But I can't not
do it because if I don't do it, then it
means I'm not going to.
S2 (32:43):
It's going to be that is going to be that
same feeling that's creeping on you. Exactly.
S3 (32:47):
Exactly, Exactly. So I got to do it, man.
S2 (32:50):
So I like Yeah, man, I love that. I love that.
S3 (32:52):
About my announcement. But yeah, so within by the beginning
of next month I do it. Yeah. I was.
S2 (32:59):
Doing Yeah. Check out way in, in your I don't
know if this will be out by next month. It might,
this might not come out for like two months so
it might, you might already be on air but it makes,
you know, check out way.
S3 (33:08):
In, it's still check out maybe a couple of episodes
to be in or.
S2 (33:10):
Okay, let me get three more minutes out of you.
What is the the who is the biggest person you
met working at the Comedy Store? Gigi's was. Yeah. It's
like the coolest or the best experience or time that
you can imagine that you've had at working at the
store or just being at the store like the most.
Gigi experience the coolest.
S3 (33:29):
Thing I really think that I like the most is
just like you get to see. I don't work at
night anymore. I worked in the day. But the coolest
thing was just to see a crazy lineup every night. Man.
It's like the best combo. Fashion. Yeah, Best of the best,
the best comedy education you could have just sitting and
watching the room.
S2 (33:48):
I felt that way, nigga. And I saw one person
a week. I can't imagine. See it. You don't see
the lineup is the top niggas little world Yeah all
in the room for 3 hours.
S3 (34:01):
Looks at I appreciate.
S2 (34:02):
Have you met anybody or had a situation where you like.
Yeah was like the craziest situation you have that you
can share. I guess.
S3 (34:08):
The craziest.
S2 (34:09):
Coolest cool.
S3 (34:10):
Crazy situation would be rest in peace. Brody When he. Oh, Brody. Yeah,
when I first started working there, it's like when he
had his manic episode where he's, like, tweeting 1500 times
a day, and that was like, super intense. That was
coming to Jersey.
S2 (34:24):
Yeah, Yeah, that was intense. Dope.
S3 (34:25):
The thing I like as far as comes I respect
is in Edwards over the spectrum because you'll see him
tell a joke that's brand new and like it doesn't
go well and he doesn't give a fuck like he
doesn't care. And then you'll see that joke three months later,
and the joke is so funny.
S2 (34:40):
And it's on a Netflix.
S3 (34:41):
Special. Yeah, it's so fine tune and so and it's
just like, Oh man, that's awesome. Neil Brennan It's probably
one of the best joke writers I've ever, just like
natural joke writer. And it never gets a guy, but
he's just not so likable, you know?
S2 (34:53):
I didn't know that, but that's his thing. No, that's
a stick. His stick is not, not the likable guy.
S3 (34:58):
If you're not likable, your jokes have to be fire. Yeah, sure.
So fucking fire that. It's like it's.
S2 (35:03):
So good that it don't matter.
S3 (35:05):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's like that is awesome to overcome.
S2 (35:08):
I met him to cool dude, man. He came down dude.
The grand like when the pandemic everybody else. Yeah and
he stayed in talk to everybody for a minute and
he was cool as dude.
S3 (35:17):
And then another cool is like Tony Hinchcliffe. It's like,
I got to be a little bit on the ground
floor with him because when I started working there, he
was still a door guy and so I watched him
imagine how things should go and just like manifest his
own future. And now he's created this huge brand.
S2 (35:34):
Oh, you know, you think?
S3 (35:35):
Yeah. And he's like, he's in with, like, Rogan, who's
a kingmaker. And it's like he's pretty much set in comedy.
And it was like, cool to see him go from
being the door guy who got fired. I believe that's
how he got fired. Yeah. Or became a paid regular.
S2 (35:47):
I didn't know that.
S3 (35:47):
And then now he's.
S2 (35:48):
Tony Hinchcliffe Yeah, exactly. Now it's cool.
S3 (35:51):
Tony. That was like, really cool to see. To watch.
S2 (35:53):
That's what's up. Yeah. Last thing was, any advice that
you got for young comedians in the game? Well, just
young comedians coming up that I guess have any doubts.
S3 (36:03):
So listen, if if you want to do first off,
make your decision to do comedy, don't halfway do it.
Don't be a hobby.
S2 (36:10):
Comment like that.
S3 (36:11):
Be 100% in and and I can I can't say
because my career isn't that great but I tell you,
the people I've.
S2 (36:16):
Seen don't laugh. They don't front you're like a risk.
S3 (36:19):
I mean, it's going much better right now. But all
the people I've seen who kind of skyrocket, what they
do is they write every day. They perform as much
as they can. And they, you know, they listen to
their sets, you know. So that's a that's a real
off the court record.
S2 (36:33):
Watch what.
S3 (36:34):
It's called. Watch it it right every day. Perform while
you can, while you're young. Why you can afford to
live sort of like a college student or almost homeless.
Do that as much as you can but take advantage
of the time, you know, don't do that. And then
party four nights a week and then do comedy three. Yeah,
do take it like it's an internship for your life.
(36:54):
You know what I mean? Like, you're going to you totally.
And yeah, because right now, when I moved into the car,
it was a it felt like I was trying to
open Mike my way out of poverty, which was like
an insane thought, especially at my age.
S2 (37:05):
But but, but fuck it though, man. I feel like
if you got to take the island, burn the fucking boats.
S3 (37:10):
Yeah, exactly.
S2 (37:11):
You know?
S3 (37:12):
Yeah.
S2 (37:12):
Yeah. It was like.
S3 (37:13):
That's it. That's what I did, man. I tried to burn.
I'm still trying to burn them now. I honestly, I
still think about. Oh, I feel like I'm too comfortable.
But lately I've been going back out.
S2 (37:23):
In a.
S3 (37:23):
Weird time.
S2 (37:24):
I feel the same way, bro. And I'm, like, doing.
I'm producing two shows and a roast battle and performing
at that and I'm like, I need to find time
to sleep. But I. Also need to work three times
as much. Yeah. Yeah. Like a.
S3 (37:37):
Weird. Exactly. You know, and all the motivational speakers I hear they're
like they hardly ever sleep. Like, they don't set alarms.
Like their body.
S2 (37:44):
Yeah. I'll wake up and I'll be there. Everytime is my nigga, man.
But at five in the morning, be hurting my.
S3 (37:49):
Yeah, it hurts.
S2 (37:51):
Yeah. I just got to sleep at one I just left it.
S3 (37:53):
Right. Exactly. This midnight Mike. I do like almost four
times a week. Like, sometimes I get up to one
and then I have to get home and get to
bed by two. And now I'm trying to wake up
at seven. 730.
S2 (38:04):
I'm tired.
S3 (38:05):
To walk in, to swim before work, you.
S2 (38:07):
Know. Swim?
S3 (38:08):
Yeah. That's sort of, you know, So it's it's crazy.
S2 (38:11):
But still, you know, I appreciate you get on a podcast.
This has been let us look I'm sorry for holding
you a little longer. We've got to go do a
show next, so. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be lit.
Shout out to March and Ah shout out for Farmer and the Felon, OLAS media. Make
sure you go to OLAS media dot com, March and Ash dot com. All the best.
Marijuana cannabis this has been Walter Ford Thanks again big dog.
Y'all be blessed we out yeap
S3 (38:32):
Still slaying them jokes.
S1 (38:36):
Thank you for listening to Hilariously Blunt with Walter Ford
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