October 24, 2024 • 24 mins
This time on Locales Only, we’re cruising in Long Beach with one of the funniest comedians on the scene right now, Alexis Prigo. We’ve had funny people in the car before, but never like this! Alexis is going to tell us about her writing process, how comedians are making it in Hollywood today, and what it feels like to go on stage for the first time! So buckle up and enjoy the conversation. This is Locales Only.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, Alexis, it's Eric with Locals Only. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm good, Eric, her are you good?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, we're gonna come by and pick you up. We're
in a white Mercedes. All right, sounds good, see you
in just a second. Hey, Welcome to Locals Only. I'm
Eric Hale, And if you don't know me, I'm the
guy that founded Local magazine fourteen years ago in my garage.
It's been my job for all those years to tell
you the coolest places to eat and all of a
(00:26):
sudden California fun things to do. So you have date
nights that aren't boring, and we've talked to some really
interesting people. Now we have a podcast, and we're lucky
enough to call this Mercedes Benz EQE all Electric Sedan
courtesy of Fletcher Jones Motor Cars at Newport Beach, our
mobile podcast studio. So sit back, buckle up, and enjoy
the conversation. Welcome to Locals Only. Today. On Locals Only,
(00:55):
we're going to be cruising through Long Page and we're
with a very funny person, Alexis Prego and yeah, she's
a comedian. We're going to talk about how she comes
up with her bits, what it was like to get
on stage for the first time, and a lot of
other funny topics, trust me, So sit back, buckle up,
and enjoy locals only. Picking up in front of dirt Dog.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Dirt Dog, Hi, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
A really low key drug deal? But you guys did
the cops equipment like two other white cards.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
By the way, we got to be more specific when
I get your kidnapped. So we have the whole little
setup in here. You got different cameras on, and you
got your microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Of course, it's so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Which I think you're probably pretty comfortable in front of
a microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So today we're in Long Beach and we're with Alexis
pre Go. I hope I'm saying that correctly. Yeah, yeah,
And she is a stand up comedian and I think
the first probably paid comedian we've had in the car.
We've had other people telling jokes, but you do it
for a living. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah? Job to have.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think it's one of those careers that I think
a lot of people that their friends tell them they're
funny at some point in their life, think that they
can do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But I think it's also one of those jobs probably
like an electrician. That looks easy until you have to
stand on stage or stand and you know, put put
your finger in an electrical socket.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What was I think where I'd start with? What was
your first experience doing that? Maybe? How what led up
to you getting onto stage.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I always did acting and dancing and singing.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
As a kid, so I knew.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I feel like like most girls, we just thought we'd
grow up and be Berney Spears. Yeah, that was like
a job, right, right, And so I always knew I
wanted to do something with entertainment, okay, And I just
thought I would get like a really funny acting role
and that would be my start. And then the jobs
were just so shitty. And then I did improv classes, okay,
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and I was like, this is how it's going to happen.
And I was horrible at improv. But someone in my
class did stand up and I would go see stand
up shows with my dad all the time, and I
would get so nervous for the comics, and he signed
me up for a stand up workshop for like a
birthday present, and it kind of just took off from there.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm the type of person that I can speak in
front of people, but I think I can relate to
you that when I see other people go to speak
in front of people, it almost kind of put my
head in my hands. As soon as something goes wrong,
I can't look at them. I get really scared for them.
Yeah right, I can do it, but I get scared
for them. Do you feel that? Do you still feel
that same way?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah? I do now.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It used to be used to like kind of like
laugh at everyone's jokes because I just felt.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Bad for them if no one was laughing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But now that i'm like you know in it, I'm like, oh,
work harder, like you didn't perfect this set well enough,
Like we're not gonna laugh.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's where improv and I think stand up are so
where they diverge. I guess right, because some people could
be really good at improv, just kind of things off
the top of their head. And that's usually the funny person.
You know at the party somebody says something, yeah, they
respond with something really funny, just off the cuff. But
stand up is an art, right, you really have to practice.
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You have to like figure out how these stories are
going to go in your mind, and then yeah, frame
them in a funny way where people get the humor.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, and it has to be authentic, Like you see
a lot of people get really famous and their stand
up kind of suffers a little bit, yeah, because you
are out of touch with the regular world, right, a
little bit. But yeah, you have to just you know,
it takes a lot of work, and it has to
come from a kind of a dark place.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Sometimes. I think my best sets have from these like
dark moments.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's like when rappers become billionaires, it's kind of hard
to talk about how tough.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Life is exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So when you're a comedian but you fly private and
you live in a big mansion and you have a driver,
it's probably hard to be as relatable about going to
subway and what happened when you did that, or going
on a blind date. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like there's a few comics who do it really well,
like Jim Carrey and Jim Carrey. It's the same Jerry
Seinfeld and Jim carry guests too, and Jim Gaffigan because
they have a lot of money and they're successful, but
they seem to still be so relatable, right.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, So let's just go back to that first time
because I'm sure that that was probably pretty memorable. I'm guessing, right,
where was your first time? How did you prepare for
that first time? And what did it go?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Like? It was so it was the workshop and the
very last class was this showcase okay, and they're like,
invite all your family and your oh and everyone's like
absolutely not and no one's seen this. I think I
might have told a few friends. I'm like, I'm doing
a workshop class and I thought I was funny, and
then I did this workshop class and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh no, this is I'm not funny. The whole time.
It's been a lie, like I'm only funny in front.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Of friends because you're actually writing a joke and like
a beginning, middle, and end, and so that's hard, the
actual writing structure of it. So they're like, no, seriously,
invite your friends because they'll laugh no matter what.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh, they'll make you feel better about it, right.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, So all my family came and then word got
out and I think I must have had like twenty
five people there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh my goshestant or just at the class Flappers in Burban,
yeahs a comedy club and it was in their biggest room.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And then so everyone in the workshop, invited their family
and friends, so that was probably.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's like a talent show kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It was a talent show. Everyone's parents are in the audience.
And then it was crazy because there must have been
a least two hundred people. Oh my god, wow it
was and my legs went numb.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You'd be sweating right like you probably almost forget everything
and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I wrote my set down on a little piece of paper.
There was three jokes on there. Because we just got
five minutes. I thought I was going to die.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did you ever go to is this thing on? Isn't
that the like the famous.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Comment or like where's the one from? Yeah? But no,
my legs got numb, and I remember hitting them before
I went up.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I'm like, please work, please work. And then once I
got up there, it was totally fine. It was it's
a really and it still happens. My legs don't go
numb anymore, but they I do get really nervous before
show sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Did you have a did you have something to walk
out to? Was there something you said right when you
walked out or do you just start writing just go
right into.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Right into it?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, But it ended up going really well and It
was one of those moments were as as corny as
it sounds, where you're just like, this is what I
got to do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That has to be such a good feeling. Right.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I was so mad. I was like, why couldn't I
be like a dental hygienis Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Wait I missed that. So you were like mad that
you were good at this and right for you, You're like, Okay,
now I can't go do other things. This is going
to be what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
A normal job.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I would love to just go to school for something
and you know, you go and you become a dentist
or something or a doctor.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But no, I'm like, this is like such a crazy
career path.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But I guess you could be a funny dentist. There's laughing.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Guess, Yeah that's true. And I've met and my dentist
thinks he's like the funniest.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Think they're funny.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So I looked into your social media, which you have
a lot of your shows kind of break broken into
segments on your Instagram. Do you want to give a
shout out to your Instagram?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, shout out to my Instagram, like this a alexis
pre go.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't know if you know how that works shout
out Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's one of thing meta face everything.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
But I was looking at you at your bits, and
you said earlier when we started talking that it's a
you got to go to the dark side. But a
lot of your bits are about dating. The dark side
and the dating those things line up for you.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I guess, right, yeah, and now and now I have
a boyfriend, and so now it's like a whole different.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's the worst.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's good and bad because I'm trying to get out
of that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like dating consumed me for so long.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I was with somebody, we broke up, we got back together,
you know, so you go through the whole cycles of dating,
which are like so relatable to everybody who's doing that.
But now I'm like, I can't wait to get out
of it, just to have some jokes about like I
don't know, like a hot dog or you know what
I mean, like like something that's not like boys suck, right, ladies.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Relationships are tough too, And I think there's probably a
lot of stuff there's. Yeah, I'm the subject of a
lot of ridicule, you know. Not that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're surrounded by girls.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I'm surrounded by girls like you know, I call
it two on one. There's a lot of tag teaming.
So now your material that you're looking for, let me
ask you this. We talked about social media a little bit.
How prevalent has that become because I'm seeing what I
think are people that maybe haven't put in ten thousand hours, yeah,
doing kind of comedy bits, yeah, on TikTok and millions
(10:29):
of followers and millions of views and making millions of dollars.
Have you thought about trying to maybe put your relationship
or your real life comedy into bits, to try it
that way instead of having to use a stage.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I think it's it's comedy. But I think if there's
two types of comedy, there is one where there's the
joke structure where you're kind of telling a story or
it's like one liners, and you craft that and it
becomes at least for me, so precious us the material
right right, because it's like a diary entry. So I mean,
(11:05):
I give props to the comics who are just busting
out content constantly and posting it. Yeah, that's amazing, that's
a gift. But I want my comedy on social media.
But I also want people to come and see me
on a stage, and you know.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That's where you get your rush from. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But social media, Now, when I first started ten years ago,
it was maybe sixty percent of the job was social media,
and we were told never post any of your videos
because then people won't come to your shows.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Probably too I'm thinking, right, like a lot of comedians
that are probably doing this on TikTok go, oh yeah,
what a great angle. Let's figure out a way to
make that my sketch comedy exactly too right.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And and then and you shouldn't be posting clips when
you're like two years in, like they're not because they're.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Going to be there forever anyway there and people.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I remember I posted a clip to Instagram, like a
legit edited clip at the laugh Factory, and I posted
it and I was I forgot that my Instagram was public,
which means it went to I mean, I knew it
was public, but I didn't realize how many people were
going to see the video.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And it was wild.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It was just yeah, like I had to put like
blocks on words. But the fucked up thing about Instagram
and maybe they fixed it. The more people engage yep.
So you'll see these videos of like people getting like
torn to like shred.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And you don't want to take it down because you
feel good about what you say. But at the same
time you're fighting somebody.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah. And it's different because there was jokes that I posted,
jokes that I.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Knew we were good ones, right, and you know, you
post it and you get a different reaction from people
on social media. Sometimes a lot of you still, but
like people really have want to talk about it and
comment and say mean things.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, but it's kind of I've kind of gotten numb
to it. Sadly.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
It stings at first, Yeah, when people say mean things
to you, and then you kind of just go, oh,
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are you ever tempted to since you kind of have
the comic with to go back at them.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And the commes sometimes but they want that, yeah, because
they fed off.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And it's always the same person to not the same person.
It's the same way. Yeah, I'm like you guys are
and that to me is funny because I see it
that way.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
They don't get to see how many people comment that
are all similar.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It sounds like you found a way to protect your
mental health too, because I would find if I was
doing comedy and I told a joke, I'm just my way?
Am I sensitive? Aron?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You're very sensitive? The yeah sensitive.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So if you tell that joke and you don't get
that you know, response that you had in your brain
when you were writing it, it's kind of like, oh,
and I wonder how like for me personally? Then I'm like,
is the next joke going to be funny? I know,
is the next joke gonna be funny? Does this crowd
just hate me? How do you put that helmet around
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your brain for your mental health? Or after a show
that doesn't go well, or after a joke that doesn't
go well, how do you stay so strong on that?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's like, I go up there now, and if I'm
doing new stuff, I'll put it in the middle because
I know I could end with something that I know
will work.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
If it doesn't work and it's worked, I don't know
twenty out of the.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Twenty out of the forty times that like, I don't
take it personally, I'm like this, it's just maybe the audience.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, a different crowd.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You have to look, you really have to do like
a study on the crowd. It's like an experiment. I'm like,
what's the is it male?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Female? Heavy? What are the age groups? Obviously the goal.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Is to make everyone laugh, but sometimes it's just not
your crowd, right if I can, I wouldn't be able
to perform in front of you know, fifteen year old
They wouldn't get my jokes.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
But yeah, I think I don't. I don't take it
too seriously.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But the more you're in it, the more you realize
if these jokes aren't working, I got to go back
to the drawing board. And that's the field shows are
the best ones because you're like, oh, I got to
be on top of my game, or like these aren't working.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And there's probably days ago in there where you're just
not feeling it too, right, Like, if you're doing it,
how often are you performing quite a lot? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
At least two to three times a week, So there's days.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
When you have to wake up and you probably had
you know, maybe you had a tough day of the
day before, or you're over I don't know if you drink,
but you have to go in and just be like, Okay,
I have to get through this.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I remember I had gone through a breakup and my
set was about him and not about the breakup yet,
and I had to do it, and.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'm like, this is so embarrassy.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But then you tweak it and then you get a
new set out of it. But yeah, you really do
have to suck it up sometimes. But honestly, the crowd
knows when you're not.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
They know they can feel the energy coming off of
youake sometimes. Yeah, are in your sets? Do they become
like legos? And I guess I'll try to explain that.
Do you keep like taking little pieces and like Frankenstein
something together like oh this is good, this is good,
this is good and figure out how it kind of
flows or are the individual sets and you're always trying
to build a new timeline or storyline.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I think both. Yeah, I think the and this is
just how I write.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I like that my set flows, so it's like a
story like I'm dating dating shitty, met a new guy.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
This is what's funny about that? And then you can
go into other stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So when you have kind of a story, and you'll
see it in comedy specials too, when it's not so random,
it's more engaging.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I think.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Do you add lib at all?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You do like you're riffing, like, oh, this is working.
Let me just build on this a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Sometimes other comics are really good at that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Well they'll just go up on stage with an idea
and workshop it and like oh that's crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Pretty soon you're up there going like, okay, what are
we going to talk about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, crowd work.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
A lot of people do crowd work, which is great,
but that's not I'm not huge into that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Some people will do their whole sets. Yeah, the crowd
work is it fun to watch?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, so maybe we could talk about We kind of
talked about where you started and a little bit about
where you're at right now. I think it's interesting to
think about now that you put all this time in,
what are your goals?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Where do you where would you like to I mean,
obviously you'd probably love to like do a monologue on
SNL at some point in the future or be on
you know, something like that. Where do you see yourself
going with this? What's the what are your what are
your goals? Because the comedian's goals probably look different than
like a real estate developers goals.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, i'd hope what if I was like I just
want to build a track of homes.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I I want to flip homes.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Eric shout out flipping homes.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I want to do a film.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I want to do like shows and and you know,
right for for TV and stuff like that, and be
in front of the camera.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I miss that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
How do you how do you pursue that goal? Is
it submitting things? I've seen this. I've seen Hacks, which
is a show if anybody's see, which is about comedy writing.
But I don't know. It's probably hard to imagine writing
like turning in a resume and saying, I'd like to
do comedy for your show. Do you have to turn
in bits or you know? I have no clue how
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you get into that industry.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And I've been asking around like it's it's I think
you you write a lot, and you meet people and
you try and get in these good groups of people.
It networking. But also right now, like it's tough to
be an actor.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh, it's tough to be anything right now?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Right yeah, I think that's like the one percent of
actors working are like the top top names.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I have friends who are actors. A lot of them
move back home like they're hometowns. Right, there's just not
a lot of roles. Agencies are dropping a lot of actors,
Like if you're not making that money, they're like sorry, yeah,
they're down sizing just because it's a weird time. There
is the writer's strike, and then I think, I don't
know if it's going on right now, but there's like
(19:06):
a video game strike, right, so it's like kind of
an uneasy feeling for actors and like crew.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And there's also AI, which probably is not going to
replace stand up comedians anytime soon. And I don't think
chat GPT right now. If you said, like, right, a
funny bit, it's probably not going to be great. But
there's an evolution there with AI. I think as well
that you know, maybe in five or ten years it
will say, like write a funny movie for me, and
it might be able to do it, right.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, And a lot of stuff that was on hold
during COVID is now getting pushed out, right, So yeah,
I think AI will be massive.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I mean I feel like we see it already. Yeah,
I just don't know, right, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Of the jobs you see being lost already or probably
they're like, oh, I think we might be able to
replace this. Yeah, but I do think there's something to
the human brain, or I hope there is, because there's
been stand up comedy and comedy for thousands of years, right,
people probably stood up in Rome on the steps and
told jokes. There's a perspective. I think that's very unique
(20:12):
that humans have. Where still you'll see a special, a
comedy stand up special, or go see somebody live like
yourself and be like, wow, what a unique perspective and
a way to look at that, and that's what makes
you laugh. I think laughter a lot of times isn't
just like oh that's funny. It's like huh, like that
person sees the world differently than I do, right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, yeah, but also relatable.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Relatable, right, but just like oh.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
It was just like a degree off on the way
I was looking at Yeah, and that makes me like
have this emotional response.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, you have to be a real person for you
to have that connection. I think AI will touch a
lot of things, but I don't think it will touch
like the the passion like this, like the str it
doesn't have struggle. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, I think
that's what comedy is too. It's like oh, I experienced
(21:05):
that too, And that's funny that you said.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It like that. Now is this is a little bit personal,
but is comedy enough to sustain you? Do you have
to still work or is this full time?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And yeah, I have side gigs and I just started
a small business, okay, so that hopefully will pay the
bills and then hopefully I think that's the same.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Thing with anything, like if you're an actor and you're
probably doing something different anything in this industry, until you've
really like started to get the checks.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You have to like hustle, right, Yeah, And I knew
that from the start to like the whole struggling artists
is people do it, but it's hard to write when
you're like hungry, worried about paying rent, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And it's probably easy to write jokes if you took
a job at like Basking Robbins where we picked you up.
Funny stuff happens to you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
All day exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You're making a lot of money. They're like, see funny
things around you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, I'm glad I'm not super rich because I don't
think my jokes would be that or would they I
don't know. I can't wait, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And I'm not sure that like Elon is super hilarious
to me, you.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Don't know that's true, and he has a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Of money or Jeff Bezos. Yeah yeah, so yeah, maybe
just you know, keep the day job, keep the hustle. Yeah,
We've kind of got a lot of information from me here,
but I'd like to find out what were some of
your successes, Like why do you think some of the
things that you've done so far that have just been
like Wow, that was awesome? Did you maybe get to
brag on yourself a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think the moments where I've had those It's weird
because you wait for them and you're like, they can't
wait to get to this point, right, and it kind
of happens and you go, oh, I totally forgot. Like
you don't take a moment to be like, oh, I
that was cool, Like you know, four years ago, I
would have loved to have accomplished that, right, And I
think everyone does that. You kind of have to like
celebrate these small wins. I would say, like the most
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like the special moments for me were talking to other
comics who were very successful and getting advice from them.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is there any examples you could share with us.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Was there anybody that I was, I'll say I was
at the Comedy Store after the Tom Brady roast with all.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
These Oh wow, that was pretty crazy funny.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So just hearing just being at the comedy store actually
really is and hearing them talk about I was talking
to Leslie Jones from SNL and she was giving like
a bunch of really good advice but also talking to
us like we were all comics, which we are.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
But yeah, when they when they talk to you like
you're one of them, that that was a moment.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. I just want to say
thank you so much for joining us today. I think
that was really insightful. I definitely learned a lot about
what it's like to be a comedian and I know
I'll never do that. And I also want to thank
Jones Mercedes for providing our mobile.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Giving me this car, yeah for the news of this car.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And also to everybody at Straw Media for producing this episode.
So thank you so much for joining Locales Only. We'll
see you next time.
Hi, Alexis, it's Eric with Locals Only. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm good, Eric, her are you good?
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Well, we're gonna come by and pick you up. We're
in a white Mercedes. All right, sounds good, see you
in just a second. Hey, Welcome to Locals Only. I'm
Eric Hale, And if you don't know me, I'm the
guy that founded Local magazine fourteen years ago in my garage.
It's been my job for all those years to tell
you the coolest places to eat and all of a
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we're going to be cruising through Long Page and we're
with a very funny person, Alexis Prego and yeah, she's
a comedian. We're going to talk about how she comes
up with her bits, what it was like to get
on stage for the first time, and a lot of
other funny topics, trust me, So sit back, buckle up,
and enjoy locals only. Picking up in front of dirt Dog.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Dirt Dog, Hi, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
A really low key drug deal? But you guys did
the cops equipment like two other white cards.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
By the way, we got to be more specific when
I get your kidnapped. So we have the whole little
setup in here. You got different cameras on, and you
got your microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Of course, it's so cool.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Which I think you're probably pretty comfortable in front of
a microphone.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So today we're in Long Beach and we're with Alexis
pre Go. I hope I'm saying that correctly. Yeah, yeah,
And she is a stand up comedian and I think
the first probably paid comedian we've had in the car.
We've had other people telling jokes, but you do it
for a living. How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah? Job to have.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I think it's one of those careers that I think
a lot of people that their friends tell them they're
funny at some point in their life, think that they
can do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
But I think it's also one of those jobs probably
like an electrician. That looks easy until you have to
stand on stage or stand and you know, put put
your finger in an electrical socket.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
What was I think where I'd start with? What was
your first experience doing that? Maybe? How what led up
to you getting onto stage.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I always did acting and dancing and singing.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
As a kid, so I knew.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I feel like like most girls, we just thought we'd
grow up and be Berney Spears. Yeah, that was like
a job, right, right, And so I always knew I
wanted to do something with entertainment, okay, And I just
thought I would get like a really funny acting role
and that would be my start. And then the jobs
were just so shitty. And then I did improv classes, okay,
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and I was like, this is how it's going to happen.
And I was horrible at improv. But someone in my
class did stand up and I would go see stand
up shows with my dad all the time, and I
would get so nervous for the comics, and he signed
me up for a stand up workshop for like a
birthday present, and it kind of just took off from there.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm the type of person that I can speak in
front of people, but I think I can relate to
you that when I see other people go to speak
in front of people, it almost kind of put my
head in my hands. As soon as something goes wrong,
I can't look at them. I get really scared for them.
Yeah right, I can do it, but I get scared
for them. Do you feel that? Do you still feel
that same way?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah? I do now.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
It used to be used to like kind of like
laugh at everyone's jokes because I just felt.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Bad for them if no one was laughing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But now that i'm like you know in it, I'm like, oh,
work harder, like you didn't perfect this set well enough,
Like we're not gonna laugh.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's where improv and I think stand up are so
where they diverge. I guess right, because some people could
be really good at improv, just kind of things off
the top of their head. And that's usually the funny person.
You know at the party somebody says something, yeah, they
respond with something really funny, just off the cuff. But
stand up is an art, right, you really have to practice.
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You have to like figure out how these stories are
going to go in your mind, and then yeah, frame
them in a funny way where people get the humor.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, and it has to be authentic, Like you see
a lot of people get really famous and their stand
up kind of suffers a little bit, yeah, because you
are out of touch with the regular world, right, a
little bit. But yeah, you have to just you know,
it takes a lot of work, and it has to
come from a kind of a dark place.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Sometimes. I think my best sets have from these like
dark moments.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's like when rappers become billionaires, it's kind of hard
to talk about how tough.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Life is exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So when you're a comedian but you fly private and
you live in a big mansion and you have a driver,
it's probably hard to be as relatable about going to
subway and what happened when you did that, or going
on a blind date. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like there's a few comics who do it really well,
like Jim Carrey and Jim Carrey. It's the same Jerry
Seinfeld and Jim carry guests too, and Jim Gaffigan because
they have a lot of money and they're successful, but
they seem to still be so relatable, right.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, So let's just go back to that first time
because I'm sure that that was probably pretty memorable. I'm guessing, right,
where was your first time? How did you prepare for
that first time? And what did it go?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Like? It was so it was the workshop and the
very last class was this showcase okay, and they're like,
invite all your family and your oh and everyone's like
absolutely not and no one's seen this. I think I
might have told a few friends. I'm like, I'm doing
a workshop class and I thought I was funny, and
then I did this workshop class and I'm like.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh no, this is I'm not funny. The whole time.
It's been a lie, like I'm only funny in front.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Of friends because you're actually writing a joke and like
a beginning, middle, and end, and so that's hard, the
actual writing structure of it. So they're like, no, seriously,
invite your friends because they'll laugh no matter what.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh, they'll make you feel better about it, right.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, So all my family came and then word got
out and I think I must have had like twenty
five people there.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh my goshestant or just at the class Flappers in Burban,
yeahs a comedy club and it was in their biggest room.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And then so everyone in the workshop, invited their family
and friends, so that was probably.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
It's like a talent show kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It was a talent show. Everyone's parents are in the audience.
And then it was crazy because there must have been
a least two hundred people. Oh my god, wow it
was and my legs went numb.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You'd be sweating right like you probably almost forget everything
and everything.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I wrote my set down on a little piece of paper.
There was three jokes on there. Because we just got
five minutes. I thought I was going to die.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did you ever go to is this thing on? Isn't
that the like the famous.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Comment or like where's the one from? Yeah? But no,
my legs got numb, and I remember hitting them before
I went up.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I'm like, please work, please work. And then once I
got up there, it was totally fine. It was it's
a really and it still happens. My legs don't go
numb anymore, but they I do get really nervous before
show sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Did you have a did you have something to walk
out to? Was there something you said right when you
walked out or do you just start writing just go
right into.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Right into it?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, But it ended up going really well and It
was one of those moments were as as corny as
it sounds, where you're just like, this is what I
got to do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That has to be such a good feeling. Right.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I was so mad. I was like, why couldn't I
be like a dental hygienis Okay?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Wait I missed that. So you were like mad that
you were good at this and right for you, You're like, Okay,
now I can't go do other things. This is going
to be what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
A normal job.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I would love to just go to school for something
and you know, you go and you become a dentist
or something or a doctor.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But no, I'm like, this is like such a crazy
career path.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
But I guess you could be a funny dentist. There's laughing.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Guess, Yeah that's true. And I've met and my dentist
thinks he's like the funniest.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Think they're funny.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So I looked into your social media, which you have
a lot of your shows kind of break broken into
segments on your Instagram. Do you want to give a
shout out to your Instagram?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, shout out to my Instagram, like this a alexis
pre go.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I don't know if you know how that works shout
out Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's one of thing meta face everything.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
But I was looking at you at your bits, and
you said earlier when we started talking that it's a
you got to go to the dark side. But a
lot of your bits are about dating. The dark side
and the dating those things line up for you.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I guess, right, yeah, and now and now I have
a boyfriend, and so now it's like a whole different.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's the worst.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's good and bad because I'm trying to get out
of that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like dating consumed me for so long.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I was with somebody, we broke up, we got back together,
you know, so you go through the whole cycles of dating,
which are like so relatable to everybody who's doing that.
But now I'm like, I can't wait to get out
of it, just to have some jokes about like I
don't know, like a hot dog or you know what
I mean, like like something that's not like boys suck, right, ladies.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Relationships are tough too, And I think there's probably a
lot of stuff there's. Yeah, I'm the subject of a
lot of ridicule, you know. Not that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're surrounded by girls.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I'm surrounded by girls like you know, I call
it two on one. There's a lot of tag teaming.
So now your material that you're looking for, let me
ask you this. We talked about social media a little bit.
How prevalent has that become because I'm seeing what I
think are people that maybe haven't put in ten thousand hours, yeah,
doing kind of comedy bits, yeah, on TikTok and millions
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of followers and millions of views and making millions of dollars.
Have you thought about trying to maybe put your relationship
or your real life comedy into bits, to try it
that way instead of having to use a stage.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, I thought about it.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I think it's it's comedy. But I think if there's
two types of comedy, there is one where there's the
joke structure where you're kind of telling a story or
it's like one liners, and you craft that and it
becomes at least for me, so precious us the material
right right, because it's like a diary entry. So I mean,
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I give props to the comics who are just busting
out content constantly and posting it. Yeah, that's amazing, that's
a gift. But I want my comedy on social media.
But I also want people to come and see me
on a stage, and you know.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That's where you get your rush from. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
But social media, Now, when I first started ten years ago,
it was maybe sixty percent of the job was social media,
and we were told never post any of your videos
because then people won't come to your shows.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Probably too I'm thinking, right, like a lot of comedians
that are probably doing this on TikTok go, oh yeah,
what a great angle. Let's figure out a way to
make that my sketch comedy exactly too right.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And and then and you shouldn't be posting clips when
you're like two years in, like they're not because they're.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Going to be there forever anyway there and people.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I remember I posted a clip to Instagram, like a
legit edited clip at the laugh Factory, and I posted
it and I was I forgot that my Instagram was public,
which means it went to I mean, I knew it
was public, but I didn't realize how many people were
going to see the video.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And it was wild.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
It was just yeah, like I had to put like
blocks on words. But the fucked up thing about Instagram
and maybe they fixed it. The more people engage yep.
So you'll see these videos of like people getting like
torn to like shred.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And you don't want to take it down because you
feel good about what you say. But at the same
time you're fighting somebody.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yeah. And it's different because there was jokes that I posted,
jokes that I.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Knew we were good ones, right, and you know, you
post it and you get a different reaction from people
on social media. Sometimes a lot of you still, but
like people really have want to talk about it and
comment and say mean things.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, but it's kind of I've kind of gotten numb
to it. Sadly.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
It stings at first, Yeah, when people say mean things
to you, and then you kind of just go, oh,
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Are you ever tempted to since you kind of have
the comic with to go back at them.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And the commes sometimes but they want that, yeah, because
they fed off.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
And it's always the same person to not the same person.
It's the same way. Yeah, I'm like you guys are
and that to me is funny because I see it
that way.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
They don't get to see how many people comment that
are all similar.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It sounds like you found a way to protect your
mental health too, because I would find if I was
doing comedy and I told a joke, I'm just my way?
Am I sensitive? Aron?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You're very sensitive? The yeah sensitive.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So if you tell that joke and you don't get
that you know, response that you had in your brain
when you were writing it, it's kind of like, oh,
and I wonder how like for me personally? Then I'm like,
is the next joke going to be funny? I know,
is the next joke gonna be funny? Does this crowd
just hate me? How do you put that helmet around
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your brain for your mental health? Or after a show
that doesn't go well, or after a joke that doesn't
go well, how do you stay so strong on that?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's like, I go up there now, and if I'm
doing new stuff, I'll put it in the middle because
I know I could end with something that I know
will work.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
If it doesn't work and it's worked, I don't know
twenty out of the.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Twenty out of the forty times that like, I don't
take it personally, I'm like this, it's just maybe the audience.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, a different crowd.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You have to look, you really have to do like
a study on the crowd. It's like an experiment. I'm like,
what's the is it male?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Female? Heavy? What are the age groups? Obviously the goal.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Is to make everyone laugh, but sometimes it's just not
your crowd, right if I can, I wouldn't be able
to perform in front of you know, fifteen year old
They wouldn't get my jokes.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
But yeah, I think I don't. I don't take it
too seriously.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But the more you're in it, the more you realize
if these jokes aren't working, I got to go back
to the drawing board. And that's the field shows are
the best ones because you're like, oh, I got to
be on top of my game, or like these aren't working.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And there's probably days ago in there where you're just
not feeling it too, right, Like, if you're doing it,
how often are you performing quite a lot? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
At least two to three times a week, So there's days.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
When you have to wake up and you probably had
you know, maybe you had a tough day of the
day before, or you're over I don't know if you drink,
but you have to go in and just be like, Okay,
I have to get through this.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I remember I had gone through a breakup and my
set was about him and not about the breakup yet,
and I had to do it, and.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'm like, this is so embarrassy.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But then you tweak it and then you get a
new set out of it. But yeah, you really do
have to suck it up sometimes. But honestly, the crowd
knows when you're not.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
They know they can feel the energy coming off of
youake sometimes. Yeah, are in your sets? Do they become
like legos? And I guess I'll try to explain that.
Do you keep like taking little pieces and like Frankenstein
something together like oh this is good, this is good,
this is good and figure out how it kind of
flows or are the individual sets and you're always trying
to build a new timeline or storyline.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I think both. Yeah, I think the and this is
just how I write.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I like that my set flows, so it's like a
story like I'm dating dating shitty, met a new guy.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
This is what's funny about that? And then you can
go into other stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So when you have kind of a story, and you'll
see it in comedy specials too, when it's not so random,
it's more engaging.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I think.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Do you add lib at all?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
You do like you're riffing, like, oh, this is working.
Let me just build on this a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Sometimes other comics are really good at that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Well they'll just go up on stage with an idea
and workshop it and like oh that's crazy to me.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Pretty soon you're up there going like, okay, what are
we going to talk about that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, crowd work.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
A lot of people do crowd work, which is great,
but that's not I'm not huge into that.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Some people will do their whole sets. Yeah, the crowd
work is it fun to watch?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, so maybe we could talk about We kind of
talked about where you started and a little bit about
where you're at right now. I think it's interesting to
think about now that you put all this time in,
what are your goals?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Where do you where would you like to I mean,
obviously you'd probably love to like do a monologue on
SNL at some point in the future or be on
you know, something like that. Where do you see yourself
going with this? What's the what are your what are
your goals? Because the comedian's goals probably look different than
like a real estate developers goals.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, i'd hope what if I was like I just
want to build a track of homes.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I I want to flip homes.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Eric shout out flipping homes.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I want to do a film.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I want to do like shows and and you know,
right for for TV and stuff like that, and be
in front of the camera.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I miss that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
How do you how do you pursue that goal? Is
it submitting things? I've seen this. I've seen Hacks, which
is a show if anybody's see, which is about comedy writing.
But I don't know. It's probably hard to imagine writing
like turning in a resume and saying, I'd like to
do comedy for your show. Do you have to turn
in bits or you know? I have no clue how
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you get into that industry.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
And I've been asking around like it's it's I think
you you write a lot, and you meet people and
you try and get in these good groups of people.
It networking. But also right now, like it's tough to
be an actor.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh, it's tough to be anything right now?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Right yeah, I think that's like the one percent of
actors working are like the top top names.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I have friends who are actors. A lot of them
move back home like they're hometowns. Right, there's just not
a lot of roles. Agencies are dropping a lot of actors,
Like if you're not making that money, they're like sorry, yeah,
they're down sizing just because it's a weird time. There
is the writer's strike, and then I think, I don't
know if it's going on right now, but there's like
(19:06):
a video game strike, right, so it's like kind of
an uneasy feeling for actors and like crew.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And there's also AI, which probably is not going to
replace stand up comedians anytime soon. And I don't think
chat GPT right now. If you said, like, right, a
funny bit, it's probably not going to be great. But
there's an evolution there with AI. I think as well
that you know, maybe in five or ten years it
will say, like write a funny movie for me, and
it might be able to do it, right.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, And a lot of stuff that was on hold
during COVID is now getting pushed out, right, So yeah,
I think AI will be massive.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I mean I feel like we see it already. Yeah,
I just don't know, right, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Of the jobs you see being lost already or probably
they're like, oh, I think we might be able to
replace this. Yeah, but I do think there's something to
the human brain, or I hope there is, because there's
been stand up comedy and comedy for thousands of years, right,
people probably stood up in Rome on the steps and
told jokes. There's a perspective. I think that's very unique
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that humans have. Where still you'll see a special, a
comedy stand up special, or go see somebody live like
yourself and be like, wow, what a unique perspective and
a way to look at that, and that's what makes
you laugh. I think laughter a lot of times isn't
just like oh that's funny. It's like huh, like that
person sees the world differently than I do, right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, yeah, but also relatable.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Relatable, right, but just like oh.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
It was just like a degree off on the way
I was looking at Yeah, and that makes me like
have this emotional response.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, you have to be a real person for you
to have that connection. I think AI will touch a
lot of things, but I don't think it will touch
like the the passion like this, like the str it
doesn't have struggle. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, I think
that's what comedy is too. It's like oh, I experienced
(21:05):
that too, And that's funny that you said.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It like that. Now is this is a little bit personal,
but is comedy enough to sustain you? Do you have
to still work or is this full time?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And yeah, I have side gigs and I just started
a small business, okay, so that hopefully will pay the
bills and then hopefully I think that's the same.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Thing with anything, like if you're an actor and you're
probably doing something different anything in this industry, until you've
really like started to get the checks.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You have to like hustle, right, Yeah, And I knew
that from the start to like the whole struggling artists
is people do it, but it's hard to write when
you're like hungry, worried about paying rent, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And it's probably easy to write jokes if you took
a job at like Basking Robbins where we picked you up.
Funny stuff happens to you.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
All day exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
You're making a lot of money. They're like, see funny
things around you. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, I'm glad I'm not super rich because I don't
think my jokes would be that or would they I
don't know. I can't wait, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And I'm not sure that like Elon is super hilarious
to me, you.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Don't know that's true, and he has a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Of money or Jeff Bezos. Yeah yeah, so yeah, maybe
just you know, keep the day job, keep the hustle. Yeah,
We've kind of got a lot of information from me here,
but I'd like to find out what were some of
your successes, Like why do you think some of the
things that you've done so far that have just been
like Wow, that was awesome? Did you maybe get to
brag on yourself a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I think the moments where I've had those It's weird
because you wait for them and you're like, they can't
wait to get to this point, right, and it kind
of happens and you go, oh, I totally forgot. Like
you don't take a moment to be like, oh, I
that was cool, Like you know, four years ago, I
would have loved to have accomplished that, right, And I
think everyone does that. You kind of have to like
celebrate these small wins. I would say, like the most
(22:58):
like the special moments for me were talking to other
comics who were very successful and getting advice from them.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Is there any examples you could share with us.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Was there anybody that I was, I'll say I was
at the Comedy Store after the Tom Brady roast with all.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
These Oh wow, that was pretty crazy funny.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So just hearing just being at the comedy store actually
really is and hearing them talk about I was talking
to Leslie Jones from SNL and she was giving like
a bunch of really good advice but also talking to
us like we were all comics, which we are.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
But yeah, when they when they talk to you like
you're one of them, that that was a moment.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. I just want to say
thank you so much for joining us today. I think
that was really insightful. I definitely learned a lot about
what it's like to be a comedian and I know
I'll never do that. And I also want to thank
Jones Mercedes for providing our mobile.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Giving me this car, yeah for the news of this car.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And also to everybody at Straw Media for producing this episode.
So thank you so much for joining Locales Only. We'll
see you next time.
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