September 10, 2024 • 24 mins
Ever wondered how a comedian's first headlining gig feels after a decade of grinding? Meet Tyrone Burston, the man with a story that’s bound to tug at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone. Tyrone takes us behind the scenes of his emotional journey to the spotlight, sharing how personal losses and life’s hard knocks pushed him to embrace comedy with unmatched passion. Alongside Tyrone's narrative, I also recount my rollercoaster experience auditioning for America's Got Talent, reflecting on the grit and heart required to chase a dream in the cutthroat world of entertainment.
But that's not all! Dive into the nitty-gritty of what it takes to build a successful comedy career. From the awkward silences of your early stand-up days to mastering the art of reading the room, we uncover the secrets of crafting material that genuinely makes you laugh. Tyrone shares invaluable insights on resilience and self-belief, emphasizing the importance of creating humor that resonates with your soul. As we wrap up, we celebrate Tyrone's journey and anticipate his future triumphs, potentially gracing platforms like Netflix or Hulu. Don't miss the chance to follow Tyrone on social media and YouTube, and join us in applauding his relentless dedication and inspiring path to success.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode
of no id podcast.
It's me, your host, ron davis.
I have here up-and-comingcomedian icon, businessman,
mentor, headliner, the creatorof bursting with comedy brand,
the one and only tyrone burstinghow you doing today, brother
(00:24):
doing good, rome.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
That was a great intro.
That's what you do, man.
You know.
I said I've been watching yourpodcast.
I love them, but your intros befire, bro oh, man appreciate
that man yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So we were talking earlier.
Um, some people don't know this, but tyrone's been doing this
for 10 years.
He's headlined, he gotexperienced the the headliner
comedian role, that for aweekend, and it's gonna be
plenty more weekends coming upin the future anyway, how was
(01:00):
that experience, though, brother?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean, it was just.
It was like, um, I don't know,man.
It's like you know, sometimeswe have dreams, right, but the
dreams are not vivid enough foryou to regurgitate them.
But it's like having abeautiful dream or something
that you've been reaching foryour whole life and you finally
step into it.
It's I can't even describe thefeeling bad.
It just it felt like I wassupposed to be there.
(01:24):
It didn't feel like a mistake,the moment didn't feel too big.
But just to let everybody know,you know, I'm just a regular
comedian like Rome Davis.
I just got more skin in thegame as far as how long I've
been doing it.
But you know, as a comedian,your goal is to do weekends at
comedy clubs and to be themarquee, to get people to come
(01:44):
out and say, man, I want to seeRome Davis, let me get four
tickets real quick.
You know what I'm saying.
So, to live in that moment, man, it just meant the world to me,
man.
You know, I think on the way tothe club I really didn't know
that I was the marquee headliner.
I thought I was filling in formaybe a feature or a host.
The way it all worked out andhow I originally got the phone
call, I didn't know what wasgoing on, I just knew I needed
(02:06):
to be at that club before theshow started, you know, and as
time went on and they startedsending me links and asking me
for my bio and a headshot.
When it finally came through myphone, man, I was crying on the
way to the venue.
Man, because it was one ofthose feelings where you know,
like, thank you, god, you know,for listening to my prayers and
(02:29):
throwing me a bone making,letting me get the feel, you
know, it's all about gettingthat feeling, man yeah, what
(03:01):
shit did I do?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
let me see.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm back back.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, okay, hopefully everything going good.
But we'll get my homeboy tochop it up.
We'll get it chopped up.
So I've had that experience.
One time February, and I didAmerica's Got Talent Shuffle it
up.
I've had that experience.
(03:50):
One time February, I didAmerica's Got Talent.
I actually auditioned,auditioned and then I went to
California.
That joint was so surreal.
I ain't crying in the airport,but when I got to the hotel room
, I'm going to cry when I getinto the room, man.
I cried in that hotel room rec.
(04:10):
I like, oh, I made it got homeclose to the picture up and it's
like cool man and you've beendoing this 10 years 10 years
it'll be.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It'll be 11 on august 18th of this year, so I started
august 18th of 2013, so I'mgoing into my 11th year, man for
sure, yeah, it's been abeautiful ride, beautiful
journey, man, I wouldn't changeanything that I've done, uh, up
until this point, for sure, man.
And the time fly by too.
Rome, I know you like what?
(04:38):
Five, maybe five years, in five, six years five and yeah six,
yeah.
Yeah, man, you got to thinkfrom the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You can tell I've been doing it.
You can see that hairline justgoing back.
Oh, man, going back thisperson's browsing just a little
(05:34):
technical difficulties, people.
It's okay, man, but good guy,I'm back.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I don't know why, yo I got I got at&t u-verse.
I don't know why, yo, I gotAT&T U-verse.
I don't know why they doing melike that.
They're making me feel like Iain't got good internet.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I use the word for AT&T.
I'm going to let you know.
You got OK, I'm just messing.
You got OK, internet, that's OKDo you remember that first?
Time you touched that stage?
What made you decide to getinto comedy?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
yeah, yeah.
So that's a good question, man.
I think, um, my inspirationcame like right before I started
doing comedy.
Man, I was actually diagnosed,bro, with child support.
You know I'm saying so.
Yo, I got hit with it likemaybe six months into my comedy
(06:29):
career, and then my ex-wife atthe time she ain't want to deal
with me, no more.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So I can still see and hear you, but it's doing it
again all right, we good yeah wegood okay, bet, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So, yeah, my brother-in-law was shot and
killed.
We went to the funeral servicesback home um, I think a best
friend.
I went to high school with myfriend, james moore.
He passed away like a weekafter that.
So, just dealing with with thattype of death man and that
sadness on my way home toCharlotte, I just promised
myself that I would never wastean opportunity to do something
(07:48):
that I know God gave me thetalent for.
So I started doing comedy likefive months after they passed
away.
So that happened in March of2023.
And I started doing comedy ofAugust that year.
That was my first time on stagein August and I always been
funny.
I was the class clown in highschool.
I did the morning announcementsin my high school.
I was just the guy to go to ifyou wanted to have a good time
(08:11):
in class, man.
So I was always popular inschool for just cracking jokes
and being funny.
I've been doing that since likethe fifth grade.
By the time I got to highschool, I had perfected how to
get on the last teacher's nerves, man, and just get kicked out
of class all the time.
I was really good at that.
You know what I'm saying.
So I got a huge support systemback home.
(08:31):
When you know you're meant todo something, people always tell
you, like man, I've beentelling you you should have did
comedy and this is your lane man, I know you're going to good
and and all this stuff.
So it ain't something that I'mforcing myself to do.
It's something that naturallyjust comes to me by just being
funny, whether I'm on stage oroff stage.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Man, I just always been good at it yeah, because I
watched a couple of your clips.
Man, it's just like a naturalpoise, it's like you're just
having a conversation andeverybody's like man, what uncle
tyrone about to say you likethat one uncle at the reunion,
he like yo, you know, if he comearound, you know you guaranteed
to get something.
Who was someone like thecomedians that you looked up to
(09:17):
coming up?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
yep, talented comedian yeah alright, james,
(09:54):
I'm back or Rome, I don't knowwhy.
I want to call you Jerome JamesDavis that's the most slavery.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Black name old man name all right, so you looked up
the talent.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Talent was the first comedian yeah, he was the first
guy I ever seen on tv that justdid it differently.
You know I'm saying I wasn'tinterested in doing stand-up
back then.
I think I was like maybe 13years old at the most, 13 14.
So he just stuck out to me assomebody that was different and
cool.
You know, I'm saying like if Ihad to do comedy I would do it
(10:40):
in that demeanor.
You know I was saying he hadhis own style, his own little,
and he held a beer when he wason stage.
All that was just so differentto me.
You know what I'm saying.
So it's cool to come fullcircle now and be doing comedy
and just always trying toinnovate ways in my own style to
just be different from thefirst couple of comics you may
have seen that night.
(11:00):
I'm just always trying to havemy own style talking, my own
voice and things like that.
But yeah, I thought talent wasa huge inspiration.
But when you move down South,you know I'm from up North.
So when you come down South andwhite comedians ask you that
question and I say talent, theyhave no idea what I'm talking
about.
You know what I mean.
They like.
So who's some of your favoritecomics.
(11:20):
I'm like you know talent andthey look at that and be like,
yeah, I mean they shoulddefinitely have talent, you know
, but who do you admire, like,who do you?
So I had to learn that you knowwhite people and black people
don't watch the same stuff.
So for a long time, unless ablack comedian is asking me, I
(11:41):
can't even really answer thatquestion.
You know, I just tell whitefolks, like, look, I inspire
myself.
Okay, I never looked up toanybody, but my mom, all right,
I'm just, I'm here trying tomake it like you guys, all right
, I just I don't know what totell them, man, but on the flip
side, I don't know none of theircomics either.
You know what I'm saying.
When they be naming big time,amazing white comedians, they be
shocked.
I don't know.
You know what I'm saying.
Like sometimes you just stay inyour own little community
(12:03):
bubble or your culture and it iswhat it is.
I know some of them, but Idon't be knowing all of them.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I appreciate you saying talent man, because every
comedian I've interviewedalways hit me with yeah man.
I was watching Def Comedy, jamand Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm like bro, you 19 years old, you mean.
The other day you watched Nickhey, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's on Tubi bro, it's not Dang.
As far as white comedians man,I tell this all the time.
Blue Collar Comedy 2 was mystart into comedy.
I love Jeff Foxworthy, but hey,you know what I mean.
I keep it quiet.
(12:48):
That's funny, bro.
Hey, man, all right.
But, like I said, talent,talent, yeah, talent was dope.
I was watching the other dayfor you, two people out there,
that's what.
What's up, man, you remember?
Because you're building a brandright now.
Right, you're building theBursting with Comedy brand.
(13:09):
How is that looking?
How is that on a day-to-daybasis?
Because I know you'reconsistently grinding?
I saw the post the other daywhere you said your wife helped
you out with the funny call.
It was like you just got yourteam going on, so how's that
looking?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, I'm just letting it come together on its
own for real.
It's not like I'm handpickingindividuals to help me work.
My wife is.
I joke around and call her mymanager, but she really is, for
real.
You know what I'm saying.
She's taking on that title andtrying.
If you were to ask me to do acomedy show, I would have to run
it by my wife first.
You know what I'm saying.
To make sure it fits ourschedule.
(13:48):
You know what I'm saying.
To make sure we got enought-shirts for sale.
So she ordered the t-shirts.
If I'm going out of town bymyself, she does all of the
logistics.
You know what I'm saying.
She'll grab me the hotel that'sclose to the venue, She'll make
sure I'm renting a vehicle andshe'll do all the logistics, all
the behind the scenes stuff.
But the brand bursting withcomedy is something I came in
(14:09):
with from day one.
Just my last name being burstin me doing comedy.
I just thought it made sense asa you know, holistically
speaking, as a brand.
It just made so much sense.
So now you know, after doingthat weekend and Raleigh and
then being accepted into theAsville Comedy Festival, I'd
already been headlining a coupleof times with some venues with
(14:29):
the comedy zone and getting somebookings to the funny business
I'm featuring for them right now.
So I mean, I got bursting withcomedy.
I'm over here looking at mydesk.
I got notebooks, I got pens, Igot coffee mugs, I got t-shirts,
I got chapstick.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I'm starting to think likeI could just slap my logo and
brand on anything on everydayhousehold items, bro.
(14:53):
So it's it's amazing to see itgrow so rapidly within these
last like you know, 30, 40 days.
I've been hitting it hard justtrying to think of ways to, you
know, increase my worth onlineand in person with some of these
people that I'll be meetinghere soon.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And I just listened to some.
You just said you have yourbookings through your agency and
that took 10 years.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And it ain't like.
It ain't like.
I got an agent, you know whatI'm saying.
There's all these little momand pop agencies, you know.
You got your big dogs who whooversee, like Desi Banks and
Ryan Davis and all these bigname comedians, and then you got
the mom and pop agencies thatbook really, really great shows
at these bars and lounges acrossthe country.
(15:41):
So it's like you always hear,it's levels to comedy.
You know what I'm saying.
It's levels to everything.
And I'm just kind of startingnow, even though I'm 10 years in
, I'm getting my feet wet withinsome of these stages within
comedy.
So that's why the AshevilleComedy Festival is so sought
after and it's such a hugeopportunity to be a part of,
because for once in your careeryou'll be seen by industry folks
(16:05):
.
You know I'm saying like vicepresidents of comedy clubs, the
bookers, the owners, you knowall these people that could
change a comedy careertrajectory will be there to see
you.
And it's not a competitionstyle based festival.
You're not trying to come infirst place and out you All
(16:46):
right.
All right mic check, mic checkwe back we bet we back man.
But yeah, man, 10 years man, Ijust I want to be an inspiration
(17:10):
to new comics.
Either way, either you look atme and be like man that never be
me, it'll never take me 10years to to do what he doing or,
you know, saying, if you needsome motivation or a little
inspiration, you could look atmy career and be like man.
I kind of like the trajectoryhe on.
You know what I'm saying.
He toured with, you know, adeleGivens and he did all these
things and it looked like hebooming, he getting paid.
(17:33):
So you know, I want to be aninspiration on both ends of that
spectrum, for regardless.
But it do take a lot of work,man, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Thank you.
Thank you for dropping thatnext gem right.
so it do take a lot of work andI have a model I said um, in
order to to be a comedian, youactually gotta do comedy and not
just watch it.
So you grinded it out for 10years and we get some cats that
come.
Well, I'm in virginia that'sonly been doing it six months
and haven't had that solid fiveminutes of substance behind
(18:07):
their jokes.
There's no.
You can hear the rambling, orthey don't know how to pivot and
change if one joke is a littleflat, or they got a dead silence
.
How do you combat that?
Or what have you learned inthose 10 years?
To come, we probably don't getdead silence anymore.
You know how to read the room.
Come, we probably don't getdead silence anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You know how to read the room I mean, it can't happen
if you're doing new materialfor sure, so that that that
never goes away.
No matter how big of a comedianyou are, you're gonna fall flat
somewhere somehow, justdepending on where you at, how
the crowd feeling.
But but to me I would tell newcomics man, always write in the
(18:44):
perspective of you know you'rewriting this joke because you
think it's funny.
You know what I'm saying, likeit genuinely made you laugh as
an individual, I think, as newcomedians sometimes.
You know, even when I was a newcomic, I used to make the
mistake of always trying towrite material in hopes that the
crowd will get it, or, man, Ihope they think this is funny,
(19:05):
or I really hope this works.
You know what I'm saying.
But you got to write it in areverse type of manner to where
you only write.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right, all right, we back, all right we back?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
yeah, man, you always gotta you do the material that
genuinely makes you laugh, man,instead of trying to be so
clever to where you think thesepeople will get it, because you
don't really know who you'reperforming for until you get to
the venue, unless you are acelebrity for real.
So that's how I would combatsilent moments or having the
moments on stage where you bomband ain't nobody laughing or
(20:20):
nothing.
You just got to stay true toyourself and make fun of the
fact that you did a joke thatdidn't do.
Well, you know what I'm saying.
Like, you got to do that as acomedian.
I love comedians that can makefun of theyself when they are in
them.
Silent moments at the open micsor whatever.
You know what I'm saying.
Like do a joke, it don't work,and then say something about the
(20:44):
joke not working.
I, I love comics.
That could do that, man,because I'm that type of comic.
I ain't just gonna sit in thosewe do, we do, man dog.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I think I had silence one time so bad it felt like I
was Queen Latifah and set it offlike I was.
Just that song played in myhead.
It was like I was like no, Iknow a bro.
There's no way I was like I'mdone usually like to keep the
(21:20):
interviews around 20-21 minutesbecause you know now, with this
attention span of everythingthat's going on, everybody's
looking for that first minuteand a half or that first,
whatever clip.
But I one appreciate thepatience that you had with me.
(21:41):
I appreciate the interview andI appreciate the patience that
you've had with me.
I appreciate the interview andI appreciate the jewels that
you've been dropping in this, inthis realm, and you know I'm
looking forward to maybe in ayear or two They'll tell Ron
Burstyn got a Netflix specialcoming out or you guys some
dropping out on Hulu.
Hell, I even take to be at thispoint, but I just know that
(22:06):
you're doing your thing, brother, and I appreciate you so much.
Man, I really do.
It was great to actually picksomebody's brain that's coming
up and is just doing the grind.
You actually see it, not juston a, a social media, but you
can actually see it.
You know, I would say in person, but through conversation, man,
(22:28):
but if the people want tofollow you or they want to get
um more insight, where do theygo?
(23:28):
Thank you you in facts still atalent, talent.
Yes, make sure you guys supportTyrone and all his ventures.
Click the links in the bio,subscribe, like, share, comment,
(23:49):
repost.
I do appreciate everything,brother, and you can follow me
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No, id media TV is the YouTubechannel, but if you click the
link in my bio it will give youthe website with the email list
and everything so you can knowwhat's going on.
All right, let's go ahead andsign off.
ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode
of no id podcast.
It's me, your host, ron davis.
I have here up-and-comingcomedian icon, businessman,
mentor, headliner, the creatorof bursting with comedy brand,
the one and only tyrone burstinghow you doing today, brother
(00:24):
doing good, rome.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
That was a great intro.
That's what you do, man.
You know.
I said I've been watching yourpodcast.
I love them, but your intros befire, bro oh, man appreciate
that man yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So we were talking earlier.
Um, some people don't know this, but tyrone's been doing this
for 10 years.
He's headlined, he gotexperienced the the headliner
comedian role, that for aweekend, and it's gonna be
plenty more weekends coming upin the future anyway, how was
(01:00):
that experience, though, brother?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean, it was just.
It was like, um, I don't know,man.
It's like you know, sometimeswe have dreams, right, but the
dreams are not vivid enough foryou to regurgitate them.
But it's like having abeautiful dream or something
that you've been reaching foryour whole life and you finally
step into it.
It's I can't even describe thefeeling bad.
It just it felt like I wassupposed to be there.
(01:24):
It didn't feel like a mistake,the moment didn't feel too big.
But just to let everybody know,you know, I'm just a regular
comedian like Rome Davis.
I just got more skin in thegame as far as how long I've
been doing it.
But you know, as a comedian,your goal is to do weekends at
comedy clubs and to be themarquee, to get people to come
(01:44):
out and say, man, I want to seeRome Davis, let me get four
tickets real quick.
You know what I'm saying.
So, to live in that moment, man, it just meant the world to me,
man.
You know, I think on the way tothe club I really didn't know
that I was the marquee headliner.
I thought I was filling in formaybe a feature or a host.
The way it all worked out andhow I originally got the phone
call, I didn't know what wasgoing on, I just knew I needed
(02:06):
to be at that club before theshow started, you know, and as
time went on and they startedsending me links and asking me
for my bio and a headshot.
When it finally came through myphone, man, I was crying on the
way to the venue.
Man, because it was one ofthose feelings where you know,
like, thank you, god, you know,for listening to my prayers and
(02:29):
throwing me a bone making,letting me get the feel, you
know, it's all about gettingthat feeling, man yeah, what
(03:01):
shit did I do?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
let me see.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm back back.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, okay, hopefully everything going good.
But we'll get my homeboy tochop it up.
We'll get it chopped up.
So I've had that experience.
One time February, and I didAmerica's Got Talent Shuffle it
up.
I've had that experience.
(03:50):
One time February, I didAmerica's Got Talent.
I actually auditioned,auditioned and then I went to
California.
That joint was so surreal.
I ain't crying in the airport,but when I got to the hotel room
, I'm going to cry when I getinto the room, man.
I cried in that hotel room rec.
(04:10):
I like, oh, I made it got homeclose to the picture up and it's
like cool man and you've beendoing this 10 years 10 years
it'll be.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It'll be 11 on august 18th of this year, so I started
august 18th of 2013, so I'mgoing into my 11th year, man for
sure, yeah, it's been abeautiful ride, beautiful
journey, man, I wouldn't changeanything that I've done, uh, up
until this point, for sure, man.
And the time fly by too.
Rome, I know you like what?
(04:38):
Five, maybe five years, in five, six years five and yeah six,
yeah.
Yeah, man, you got to thinkfrom the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
You can tell I've been doing it.
You can see that hairline justgoing back.
Oh, man, going back thisperson's browsing just a little
(05:34):
technical difficulties, people.
It's okay, man, but good guy,I'm back.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I don't know why, yo I got I got at&t u-verse.
I don't know why, yo, I gotAT&T U-verse.
I don't know why they doing melike that.
They're making me feel like Iain't got good internet.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I use the word for AT&T.
I'm going to let you know.
You got OK, I'm just messing.
You got OK, internet, that's OKDo you remember that first?
Time you touched that stage?
What made you decide to getinto comedy?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
yeah, yeah.
So that's a good question, man.
I think, um, my inspirationcame like right before I started
doing comedy.
Man, I was actually diagnosed,bro, with child support.
You know I'm saying so.
Yo, I got hit with it likemaybe six months into my comedy
(06:29):
career, and then my ex-wife atthe time she ain't want to deal
with me, no more.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So I can still see and hear you, but it's doing it
again all right, we good yeah wegood okay, bet, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So, yeah, my brother-in-law was shot and
killed.
We went to the funeral servicesback home um, I think a best
friend.
I went to high school with myfriend, james moore.
He passed away like a weekafter that.
So, just dealing with with thattype of death man and that
sadness on my way home toCharlotte, I just promised
myself that I would never wastean opportunity to do something
(07:48):
that I know God gave me thetalent for.
So I started doing comedy likefive months after they passed
away.
So that happened in March of2023.
And I started doing comedy ofAugust that year.
That was my first time on stagein August and I always been
funny.
I was the class clown in highschool.
I did the morning announcementsin my high school.
I was just the guy to go to ifyou wanted to have a good time
(08:11):
in class, man.
So I was always popular inschool for just cracking jokes
and being funny.
I've been doing that since likethe fifth grade.
By the time I got to highschool, I had perfected how to
get on the last teacher's nerves, man, and just get kicked out
of class all the time.
I was really good at that.
You know what I'm saying.
So I got a huge support systemback home.
(08:31):
When you know you're meant todo something, people always tell
you, like man, I've beentelling you you should have did
comedy and this is your lane man, I know you're going to good
and and all this stuff.
So it ain't something that I'mforcing myself to do.
It's something that naturallyjust comes to me by just being
funny, whether I'm on stage oroff stage.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Man, I just always been good at it yeah, because I
watched a couple of your clips.
Man, it's just like a naturalpoise, it's like you're just
having a conversation andeverybody's like man, what uncle
tyrone about to say you likethat one uncle at the reunion,
he like yo, you know, if he comearound, you know you guaranteed
to get something.
Who was someone like thecomedians that you looked up to
(09:17):
coming up?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
yep, talented comedian yeah alright, james,
(09:54):
I'm back or Rome, I don't knowwhy.
I want to call you Jerome JamesDavis that's the most slavery.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Black name old man name all right, so you looked up
the talent.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Talent was the first comedian yeah, he was the first
guy I ever seen on tv that justdid it differently.
You know I'm saying I wasn'tinterested in doing stand-up
back then.
I think I was like maybe 13years old at the most, 13 14.
So he just stuck out to me assomebody that was different and
cool.
You know, I'm saying like if Ihad to do comedy I would do it
(10:40):
in that demeanor.
You know I was saying he hadhis own style, his own little,
and he held a beer when he wason stage.
All that was just so differentto me.
You know what I'm saying.
So it's cool to come fullcircle now and be doing comedy
and just always trying toinnovate ways in my own style to
just be different from thefirst couple of comics you may
have seen that night.
(11:00):
I'm just always trying to havemy own style talking, my own
voice and things like that.
But yeah, I thought talent wasa huge inspiration.
But when you move down South,you know I'm from up North.
So when you come down South andwhite comedians ask you that
question and I say talent, theyhave no idea what I'm talking
about.
You know what I mean.
They like.
So who's some of your favoritecomics.
(11:20):
I'm like you know talent andthey look at that and be like,
yeah, I mean they shoulddefinitely have talent, you know
, but who do you admire, like,who do you?
So I had to learn that you knowwhite people and black people
don't watch the same stuff.
So for a long time, unless ablack comedian is asking me, I
(11:41):
can't even really answer thatquestion.
You know, I just tell whitefolks, like, look, I inspire
myself.
Okay, I never looked up toanybody, but my mom, all right,
I'm just, I'm here trying tomake it like you guys, all right
, I just I don't know what totell them, man, but on the flip
side, I don't know none of theircomics either.
You know what I'm saying.
When they be naming big time,amazing white comedians, they be
shocked.
I don't know.
You know what I'm saying.
Like sometimes you just stay inyour own little community
(12:03):
bubble or your culture and it iswhat it is.
I know some of them, but Idon't be knowing all of them.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I appreciate you saying talent man, because every
comedian I've interviewedalways hit me with yeah man.
I was watching Def Comedy, jamand Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm like bro, you 19 years old, you mean.
The other day you watched Nickhey, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's on Tubi bro, it's not Dang.
As far as white comedians man,I tell this all the time.
Blue Collar Comedy 2 was mystart into comedy.
I love Jeff Foxworthy, but hey,you know what I mean.
I keep it quiet.
(12:48):
That's funny, bro.
Hey, man, all right.
But, like I said, talent,talent, yeah, talent was dope.
I was watching the other dayfor you, two people out there,
that's what.
What's up, man, you remember?
Because you're building a brandright now.
Right, you're building theBursting with Comedy brand.
(13:09):
How is that looking?
How is that on a day-to-daybasis?
Because I know you'reconsistently grinding?
I saw the post the other daywhere you said your wife helped
you out with the funny call.
It was like you just got yourteam going on, so how's that
looking?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, I'm just letting it come together on its
own for real.
It's not like I'm handpickingindividuals to help me work.
My wife is.
I joke around and call her mymanager, but she really is, for
real.
You know what I'm saying.
She's taking on that title andtrying.
If you were to ask me to do acomedy show, I would have to run
it by my wife first.
You know what I'm saying.
To make sure it fits ourschedule.
(13:48):
You know what I'm saying.
To make sure we got enought-shirts for sale.
So she ordered the t-shirts.
If I'm going out of town bymyself, she does all of the
logistics.
You know what I'm saying.
She'll grab me the hotel that'sclose to the venue, She'll make
sure I'm renting a vehicle andshe'll do all the logistics, all
the behind the scenes stuff.
But the brand bursting withcomedy is something I came in
(14:09):
with from day one.
Just my last name being burstin me doing comedy.
I just thought it made sense asa you know, holistically
speaking, as a brand.
It just made so much sense.
So now you know, after doingthat weekend and Raleigh and
then being accepted into theAsville Comedy Festival, I'd
already been headlining a coupleof times with some venues with
(14:29):
the comedy zone and getting somebookings to the funny business
I'm featuring for them right now.
So I mean, I got bursting withcomedy.
I'm over here looking at mydesk.
I got notebooks, I got pens, Igot coffee mugs, I got t-shirts,
I got chapstick.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I'm starting to think likeI could just slap my logo and
brand on anything on everydayhousehold items, bro.
(14:53):
So it's it's amazing to see itgrow so rapidly within these
last like you know, 30, 40 days.
I've been hitting it hard justtrying to think of ways to, you
know, increase my worth onlineand in person with some of these
people that I'll be meetinghere soon.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
And I just listened to some.
You just said you have yourbookings through your agency and
that took 10 years.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And it ain't like.
It ain't like.
I got an agent, you know whatI'm saying.
There's all these little momand pop agencies, you know.
You got your big dogs who whooversee, like Desi Banks and
Ryan Davis and all these bigname comedians, and then you got
the mom and pop agencies thatbook really, really great shows
at these bars and lounges acrossthe country.
(15:41):
So it's like you always hear,it's levels to comedy.
You know what I'm saying.
It's levels to everything.
And I'm just kind of startingnow, even though I'm 10 years in
, I'm getting my feet wet withinsome of these stages within
comedy.
So that's why the AshevilleComedy Festival is so sought
after and it's such a hugeopportunity to be a part of,
because for once in your careeryou'll be seen by industry folks
(16:05):
.
You know I'm saying like vicepresidents of comedy clubs, the
bookers, the owners, you knowall these people that could
change a comedy careertrajectory will be there to see
you.
And it's not a competitionstyle based festival.
You're not trying to come infirst place and out you All
(16:46):
right.
All right mic check, mic checkwe back we bet we back man.
But yeah, man, 10 years man, Ijust I want to be an inspiration
(17:10):
to new comics.
Either way, either you look atme and be like man that never be
me, it'll never take me 10years to to do what he doing or,
you know, saying, if you needsome motivation or a little
inspiration, you could look atmy career and be like man.
I kind of like the trajectoryhe on.
You know what I'm saying.
He toured with, you know, adeleGivens and he did all these
things and it looked like hebooming, he getting paid.
(17:33):
So you know, I want to be aninspiration on both ends of that
spectrum, for regardless.
But it do take a lot of work,man, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Thank you.
Thank you for dropping thatnext gem right.
so it do take a lot of work andI have a model I said um, in
order to to be a comedian, youactually gotta do comedy and not
just watch it.
So you grinded it out for 10years and we get some cats that
come.
Well, I'm in virginia that'sonly been doing it six months
and haven't had that solid fiveminutes of substance behind
(18:07):
their jokes.
There's no.
You can hear the rambling, orthey don't know how to pivot and
change if one joke is a littleflat, or they got a dead silence
.
How do you combat that?
Or what have you learned inthose 10 years?
To come, we probably don't getdead silence anymore.
You know how to read the room.
Come, we probably don't getdead silence anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You know how to read the room I mean, it can't happen
if you're doing new materialfor sure, so that that that
never goes away.
No matter how big of a comedianyou are, you're gonna fall flat
somewhere somehow, justdepending on where you at, how
the crowd feeling.
But but to me I would tell newcomics man, always write in the
(18:44):
perspective of you know you'rewriting this joke because you
think it's funny.
You know what I'm saying, likeit genuinely made you laugh as
an individual, I think, as newcomedians sometimes.
You know, even when I was a newcomic, I used to make the
mistake of always trying towrite material in hopes that the
crowd will get it, or, man, Ihope they think this is funny,
(19:05):
or I really hope this works.
You know what I'm saying.
But you got to write it in areverse type of manner to where
you only write.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right, all right, we back, all right we back?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
yeah, man, you always gotta you do the material that
genuinely makes you laugh, man,instead of trying to be so
clever to where you think thesepeople will get it, because you
don't really know who you'reperforming for until you get to
the venue, unless you are acelebrity for real.
So that's how I would combatsilent moments or having the
moments on stage where you bomband ain't nobody laughing or
(20:20):
nothing.
You just got to stay true toyourself and make fun of the
fact that you did a joke thatdidn't do.
Well, you know what I'm saying.
Like, you got to do that as acomedian.
I love comedians that can makefun of theyself when they are in
them.
Silent moments at the open micsor whatever.
You know what I'm saying.
Like do a joke, it don't work,and then say something about the
(20:44):
joke not working.
I, I love comics.
That could do that, man,because I'm that type of comic.
I ain't just gonna sit in thosewe do, we do, man dog.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I think I had silence one time so bad it felt like I
was Queen Latifah and set it offlike I was.
Just that song played in myhead.
It was like I was like no, Iknow a bro.
There's no way I was like I'mdone usually like to keep the
(21:20):
interviews around 20-21 minutesbecause you know now, with this
attention span of everythingthat's going on, everybody's
looking for that first minuteand a half or that first,
whatever clip.
But I one appreciate thepatience that you had with me.
(21:41):
I appreciate the interview andI appreciate the patience that
you've had with me.
I appreciate the interview andI appreciate the jewels that
you've been dropping in this, inthis realm, and you know I'm
looking forward to maybe in ayear or two They'll tell Ron
Burstyn got a Netflix specialcoming out or you guys some
dropping out on Hulu.
Hell, I even take to be at thispoint, but I just know that
(22:06):
you're doing your thing, brother, and I appreciate you so much.
Man, I really do.
It was great to actually picksomebody's brain that's coming
up and is just doing the grind.
You actually see it, not juston a, a social media, but you
can actually see it.
You know, I would say in person, but through conversation, man,
(22:28):
but if the people want tofollow you or they want to get
um more insight, where do theygo?
(23:28):
Thank you you in facts still atalent, talent.
Yes, make sure you guys supportTyrone and all his ventures.
Click the links in the bio,subscribe, like, share, comment,
(23:49):
repost.
I do appreciate everything,brother, and you can follow me
comedian Rome, all social mediaplatforms.
No, id media TV is the YouTubechannel, but if you click the
link in my bio it will give youthe website with the email list
and everything so you can knowwhat's going on.
All right, let's go ahead andsign off.
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