March 13, 2024 • 37 mins
As I welcomed the irresistibly witty Dara Jermott onto the show, we couldn't help but swap audition horror stories and the sort of comedy venue nightmares that comedians whisper about in hushed tones. Dara regaled us with the twist of fate that led her to the stand-up stage and the raucous journey that followed, including a brush with America's Got Talent that proved talent can be found in the most unexpected places. Our laughter echoed as we recounted gigs on perilous rooftops and streets straight out of a hip-hop track, proving the path to comedic success is anything but straight and narrow.
Our conversation took a turn down the less-traveled roads of the comedy tour life, where the spotlight is often accompanied by a hefty dose of solitude. We shared tales from the road, the pre-show jitters, and the post-performance buzz that all comics chase, whether the night was a roaring success or a lesson in humility. Listeners get a backstage pass to the triumphs and trials that come with connecting with crowds from every corner of the map and the strategies that make anywhere feel like home for a night.
Wrapping up with the vibrant Dara Jammott we discovered just where to find her infectious humor online. From her energetic Facebook page to her Instagram handle, @chocolatejem, Darareveals how she keeps fans laughing between shows while steering clear of the Twitterverse. As we bid farewell, remember to support the comedians who keep our spirits high by engaging with our content and maybe, just maybe, you'll be inspired to share your own slice of humor with the world.
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Our conversation took a turn down the less-traveled roads of the comedy tour life, where the spotlight is often accompanied by a hefty dose of solitude. We shared tales from the road, the pre-show jitters, and the post-performance buzz that all comics chase, whether the night was a roaring success or a lesson in humility. Listeners get a backstage pass to the triumphs and trials that come with connecting with crowds from every corner of the map and the strategies that make anywhere feel like home for a night.
Wrapping up with the vibrant Dara Jammott we discovered just where to find her infectious humor online. From her energetic Facebook page to her Instagram handle, @chocolatejem, Darareveals how she keeps fans laughing between shows while steering clear of the Twitterverse. As we bid farewell, remember to support the comedians who keep our spirits high by engaging with our content and maybe, just maybe, you'll be inspired to share your own slice of humor with the world.
https://noidmediallc.komi.io
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode
of the no ID podcast is me,your host, jerome Davis.
I have here fellow comedian.
She was featured on America'sGot Talent.
She is a professional of livingher best life.
You see her Instagram.
Her page is nothing but vibes.
You see her all around doingher thing.
I'm very proud I discovered her.
(00:24):
I want to say discover her.
I saw her on the explore page.
I won't say discover becauseI'm not no damn talent host, no
booking agent and none of that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The one on there, Hell I ain't no, chris McLean,
discover shit.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Darrell Jermott, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm doing well, jerome.
I'm very happy to be here.
One thank you for that amazingintro.
One thing is I have to clarifybefore people get on Google and
start calling me out.
I was not actually on America'sGot Talent, but I auditioned
for the executive producers, sothat's where that picture came
(01:09):
from, just to read.
I just don't want anyone beinglike this.
So yeah, but yeah, I got far inthe game, but never made it to
the actual stage.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, let's start.
How was that audition?
Because I just did one back inFebruary.
I was that audition.
It was nerve wrecking.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It was nerve wrecking .
I had a really non-conventionalaudition and congratulations on
your audition.
That's awesome.
I had a pretty non-conventionalaudition experience because I
used to host a mic in Brooklyn,a Wednesday comedy workout.
Shout out to Joanna Briley andeveryone who used to come.
(01:52):
We were approached for one ofthe producers to come to the mic
and have an audition there.
I was hosting the mic.
I almost didn't even auditionbecause it felt weird.
I don't know I was getting inmy head.
I don't know why I wouldn'thave auditioned.
That would have been silly.
I ended up auditioning and webasically got front-loaded to
(02:16):
the executive producers fromthere.
I just showed up at the JavitsCenter and was escorted into a
room.
I didn't really have to waitonline or apply or do any of
those things.
I just showed up.
Yay Sounds incredibly unfair tosay out loud, but it's what
(02:45):
happened.
It was a really greatexperience.
It was a few years ago at thispoint, so I was still pretty
green.
I don't know if I would do itagain, but maybe Maybe I think
you should do it again.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, I think so.
I think anytime you do it onetime, and let's just say it
didn't go the way that youwanted it to do, just go again.
Shit, what do we have to lose?
We, as comedians, will drivethree hours for three minutes
set.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I've done things for comedy that I would never have
done for anything ever.
I was walking to meet my friendat a bar the other day and it
was down this sketchy, seedyblock.
If this was for a comedy show,I would have no problem doing
this.
I'd be like no, no, no, no.
(03:40):
But I was like this is just forfun and just what.
This is so dangerous.
I got to get out of here, See,but I walked down the shadiest
blocks for a comedy show.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I walked through the shadiest blocks, performing the
raggidest of buildings.
We all know how that shitstarts, man.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Exactly.
I've gone up the subway andI've looked at the street sign
and I'm like these are addressesI've only heard in rap songs
One, two, three, and I'm playing.
I'm like we're going to do acomedy show.
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Damn, what's the raggidest, the most sketch place
you've ever performed at, I'mgoing to say recently.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I can't remember any recently, but during pandemic
there was this place, whichthey've cleaned it up.
They're inside now, but anyonewho performs in New York and if
they performed in pandemic mightremember when Tiny Covered in
Brooklyn first started, it wason the rooftop and you had to
(05:00):
climb several stairs, oneincluding one where it felt like
you were at any moment going tofall off and fall to your death
, and then the roof startedsinking.
They would barrier it offbecause there were all these
(05:23):
soft spots in the roof that itmay or may not have been great
to step on.
There was also no guardrailaround the roof, so just and
people would drink up there allthe time.
The fact that no one died islike.
I don't know how that happened,but there are people who would
not come back because they werelike I'm not climbing the stairs
(05:46):
, so that they're now like it'sa whole club inside.
It's beautiful.
They've done all theserenovations and stuff.
When it first started we wererisking our life for comedy,
both with COVID and with ourdexterity in climbing stairs.
We were taking gambles.
So yeah, I don't.
(06:07):
I can't remember any raggingplaces recently, thank God.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Elevated your life.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I've elevated.
I've elevated.
Never mind the sirens, I'veelevated.
It's like you want a raggedyblock right now.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So yeah, they didn't have no sillings.
Meanwhile you got sirens goingon in the background the whole
time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
How long have you been in the comedy game and what
made you, or who made you, jumpinto it?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So I started in 2014.
I started September.
2014 was my first show, and howI started was I went on a date
with a guy and it was May 19th.
I love this story so much.
It was May 19th, Malcolm X'sbirthday, and I remember this
(07:01):
because on our first date, hetakes me to the Shabazz Center
in Harlem for a celebration ofMalcolm X's life.
Now, next to me on our firstdate, my date was over here, but
over here was my date'sgrandmother, and next to my
(07:22):
date's grandmother were all fourof Malcolm X's daughters, when
they were all still alive.
So I only give you the contextof this so that you can
understand why I was so upset.
Later, May then later took meto his job.
So again, I'm still on my P'sand Q's.
I'm on my best behavior becausewe just came from Grandma Ma.
(07:44):
Now we're in front of thecoworkers like I'm trying to be
good, you know.
So we're passing a comedy clubwhich is actually one of my home
clubs now, Grizzly Pear, onMcDougal, and he had been
listening and he said I got asurprise for you.
I'm like okay, and he saidwe're going to go to.
He said once we turned upMcDougal, I knew we were going
(08:05):
to my Moons, which is like oneof my favorite places in New
York cheap falafel, real,delicious Staple in New York
City.
So we're passing the pear,someone's selling tickets
outside and I said we're goingto get food.
He said, well, you can bringthe food back.
And then I jokingly said well,if I come back, we come back.
I'm getting on stage and mydate looks at the guy and says,
(08:28):
no, she's not, she's not funny.
I can still feel my bloodboiling every, every time I tell
the story of my blood boils tothe point where I want to cause
physical harm to this man whosename I can't even remember at
this point, Like I can't evenremember who this dude was, but
(08:49):
I remember we got my Moons.
We came back to the show, thecrowd work wasn't going well.
My responses to the crowd workwere better than their
punchlines.
And then at the end my date waslike oh, you are funny.
And I was like this is above menow.
This is above you now.
I now have to show the worldhow funny I am because you got
(09:11):
me fucked up.
So, yeah, we're on a pettyrevenge mission.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Eight years in.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Look, I'm a Sagittarius, I hold a grudge.
Okay, once you, once you crossme, you're dead to me and I'm
going to piss on your ashes.
So that's what we're doing.
So, yeah, that's how I startedto get in the comedy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You remember that first time have you ever bombed,
even at first bad show, thatfirst bad set, like that first
bomb?
How was it?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Um, okay, this is going to sound like BS, but I
fundamentally don't believe inbombs.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Here's why.
And he actually told me to stoptelling people this.
But I can't stop telling peoplethis, and then when I tell
people this, I've got to givethe credit.
So it's to chicken and egg.
I was having a conversationwith Tony Woods one day and he
was like we had both donemingles, and mingles is a
particularly hard show.
I had been warned, so that wastechnically a bomb, like it was.
(10:23):
It was like performing for oldCaribbean people Like is like
being at my family reunion andnobody cared and it was really
hard because the championshipgame was playing behind us.
The NBA championship was like.
It was like LeBron and Curry.
So this was this was a fewyears ago too and he I come back
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in after my not great set andhe's like basically watching the
game with them, like he's just,he's just handling it so well.
And when he got off stage,we're having conversation and
he's like there's a differencebetween winners and champions.
Winners lose, champions learn.
So from every bomb experiencethat you have, it's really an
(11:11):
opportunity to learn something.
It's an opportunity to lookback.
Listen to the tape.
What didn't go well?
Was it my energy?
Did I need to clear somethingfrom my head before I got on
stage.
Was it something that washappening in the room that I
didn't address?
Did I miss a word in one of mysetups?
What happened?
(11:32):
It's a way to be inquisitiveabout what it is that you're
doing and how people arereceiving it, rather than just
be like, oh, that didn't go welland want to shoot yourself.
So ever since he said that,that kind of shifted my
perspective on how I think aboutnot doing well on stage.
But we can call mingles a bomb.
(11:57):
Also, I was supposed to do likefive minutes and the host shout
out to Smokey, left me on stagefor like 13 minutes and I
didn't know that, didn't knowthat was going to happen, and it
was like eight years ago.
So I was mentally prepared forfive.
(12:17):
And here we are, 13 minuteslater Just trying to entertain
these old Caribbean people.
I just felt like it was like mygrandpa just looking at me,
just like not happy to be there,very upset at me for
interrupting his sports watching.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We got a room.
We have a room like that herein Virginia and it's the same
way.
It's like a Caribbean, jamaicantype spot.
Tvs are blaring up andeverybody goes and he's like man
, I did not bomb.
I did not bomb, I was like Idon't know if he was at the same
show I was at, but we all bomband I remember like I only went
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there two times, but it was thisone guy that was going there.
He went there like three weeksin a row.
His uncle was bring, come there.
Let me tell you something.
That third time but it retiredfrom comedy.
It was just so fucking tough toget over in there, like Kevin
Hart, mike Epps, zanae, josh,could have came out there and
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did their best work.
They did not give two fuckswhat we said up in there.
Like I was like yo, this is,this is rough, and that was like
what, like a year and a halfago, and I was like damn.
But I was like damn, I bombed.
It was like bro, you didn'tbomb Everybody in here, bomb it
(13:44):
didn't matter.
But you hear folks Me killedthat shit.
Like bro, I don't know whatroom you was in, but you bombed.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, no, and I don't believe in that.
Do Lulu behavior either, whereit's like, where someone's like
I did grass, what did you know?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But I do find solace when everysingle person gets off stage
and they're like damn, you know,because they didn't know, it's
not just me that they didn'tlike, and because I host a lot,
(14:14):
sometimes it's really hard forme to gauge what's happening.
You know like maybe they justdon't like me.
But by the third comic, ifthey're not into the vibes, I'm
like okay, well, good, it's allof us.
It's all of us that they don'tlike.
I also, whenever, whenever Ifeel because I never like to
blame the audience and sometimesit's it is just the vibe of the
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audience, sometimes it's justit's hard.
And I think, coming out ofpandemic, I think a lot of
people have watched so muchcomedy at home that they don't
understand the energeticreciprocal experience that a
comedy show is.
If you give us energy, we'regoing to give you energy.
Now, thinking that whenaudiences aren't giving me
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energy, I almost go into like ahyperactive child mode, like I
doubled down on the energy.
I'm going to be all up in yourface.
I'm almost going to force youand drag that smile at least out
of you, because I'm not payingto be here.
I am getting paid to be here.
I don't know what you left yourhouse for, but you're here for
(15:21):
a good time.
So either get on board or watchthis manic behavior.
I'm making everybodyuncomfortable.
How about that?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I've been in some room with comedians at going on
the stage and told inside jokes.
They'm like man.
The fucking crowd didn't get us.
I know I don't think theydidn't get it.
I don't know comedy.
I know what I'm doing.
Like bro, you're up, you're onthe stage telling inside jokes.
You wreck the crowd.
I won't blame the crowdpersonally.
(15:55):
I was like man.
It could be the person in frontof me.
It could have been the host.
I think one time a fight brokeout no-transcript, and another
time I had a chicken bone thrownat me and a dinner roll.
Yeah, oh, damn bro.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Wait, why are you the second comedians Chicken bone
throwing at them?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know, he did it on purpose.
And then, but I'm five for four, I can't, you know me, I don't
have no dog in the fight and myvoice is not as deep.
So, like I saw the chicken bonecome at my feet, I'm like who
the fuck through it?
I didn't work.
You know, dinner roll came atme like another time and then, I
don't know, they cut the lightsoff on me.
(16:42):
I've had lights cut off on me.
I had the music played on me.
This is early in my career.
I took a month off from comedyand I say I'm gonna start a
podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And here we are here we are.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You know, I fuck, but nah, man Nah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I haven't had a chicken bone thrown at me.
I have had a fight start duringmy set and I have had the
lights turned off on me, whichwas wild, because I was is
actually Virginia.
I was doing 20 minutes inVirginia and I was really
excited.
It was one of my first roadtrips.
It was right before a pandemicand I think we were in like West
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Virginia too, and yeah yeah.
So About six maybe seven minutesinto my 20 minutes, the lights
just go out and like I've been adancer all my life and One
thing that is instilled in me asthe show goes on, like I've
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danced with no music, when themusic cut out, you know you,
just you got to work with it.
So I'm like I can't leave thestage just because I'm in the
dark.
So I did about 13 minutes inthe dark in a dark room with
like 300 white people and myhead I'm like, did they my head
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the whole time?
I'm like is this an accident orare they doing this to mess
with me because I'm black?
Like I did not know, and that'sjust most cycling in the back
of my head and of course, I hadto say some like real crazy
things, like Okay, well, I knowyou can't see me, but just
follow the teeth, you know.
In hindsight I'm like it feels alittle coonery and buffoonery,
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but I had to say something sothat we could all get on board
with the fact that I am in thedark and I'm doing this anyway.
And then the guy who wasrunning the lights, he was
really out of like apologetic.
He bought me a drink, but Istill I don't know.
I feel like I Don't know.
I still, to this day, don'tknow if they did that on purpose
(18:54):
or not.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You in West Virginia.
You in West Virginia they sayNAACP with the heart are up
there.
I do not go out that bitch.
I don't go nowhere with myselfon services not accepted.
That means my black ass is notgoing accepted at all.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, no, yeah, I've had.
I've had some good experiencesin West Virginia, though, but I
go there sparingly.
If they were paying me, I wouldnot be in West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So you ain't been to my part of Virginia, so we good.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm in the regular Virginia was actually black
people.
That's allowed to a certainextent.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Were you in like Petersburg.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
No, who hell?
Not Petersburg, not a notallowed there.
But uh, I Am in Chesapeake,Virginia.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I've been.
I've been a few places ofVirginia.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is.
That's okay.
The comedy scene here isfucking weird, but it is what it
is.
I Speak in a road trips.
How is comedy on the road beinga role comic, a traveling comic
?
How is that life?
Is it interesting?
I know you get different vibesand stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, it's different vibes I haven't done.
I want to do more of it.
I haven't done as much roadcomedy as I would like to.
I've done Virginia, I've doneBoston, I've even done it in
like London and Barcelona, but Ifind the road life to be it's
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interesting and and also alittle lonely, because you know
you're there and you're justwaiting all day for this show at
night and and it's it's.
It's lonely but also I like Ilike Adventures and I like
meeting people and I like goingto different spaces and like I
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just did a show in Atlantic Citya few weeks ago and there were
these people from pine something, new Jersey, I can't.
I can't remember what it wasand I'm from New Jersey and I
had no clue where they weretalking about.
And there was, like thesepeople from pine, whatever New
Jersey looked like they hadnever Even met a black person,
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like there's no black peoplethere after the sun goes down
ever.
They were giving real sundown,sundown.
But it was so great is thatwhen I got on stage, one of the
guys like even like trucker hatand beard down here Came over
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and pie my shoulder he was likeyou were so great.
So there's something, I think,really magical.
And even that same thinghappened when I performed in
West Virginia, like I waswalking around the casino after
and I was having all theseconversations with people who I
wouldn't be able to interactwith if I didn't do comedy.
You know, like we, if we werejust two people in Walmart, we
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wouldn't talk to each other.
You know, I mean, I probablywouldn't be in their town if
someone wasn't paying me tobegin with, but To begin with,
but to be, to be able to havethat bond and to be able to, you
know, get past the perceptionof what, of what each other is
thinking about the other and,you know, unify over jokes that
I made.
I feel like it's it's, it'stremendously gratifying.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I yeah, I get it.
When I go out of town.
This I book my hotel to makesure it has like a restaurant in
the hotel, cuz.
I don't know shit about what'sgoing on.
I think I was in Connecticutone time.
I was at the Mohegan Sunperforming.
I thought, oh hell, no, I'llmake sure my shit got a cafe in
there.
I was in LA, did the same thing, but uh, like the anticipation
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of waiting for the show.
I get there the day before, I'mgonna get there the day before,
get myself together, but theTensipation for waiting for the
show, like you trying to clearyour head, but I don't want to
go out here and waste time andwhatever other money I invested
To essentially bomb.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Did you Bob?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I didn't bomb.
I didn't bomb, I had a okay set.
It was very mid to what I do.
And that's when I was inConnecticut and I was like yo,
what the fuck?
But I had a guy.
I Got mad and a little enviouscuz he got up there and just
talking about shooting cocaineup for five minutes and I was
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like I can't, I don't even takecough syrup.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Why don't you take off syrup?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I believe in holistic killing.
I we're gonna leave it there,we're gonna leave it there,
we'll leave it there, we'regonna leave it there.
Actually, like New York comedy,because New York comedy shows
one of the reasons why I gotinto comedy, like I Credit a lot
of people in New York, like Ilove Jerry Seinfeld is my
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favorite comedian, playing handsdown a simple and bad boys a
comedy and my eyes was like theship before but it was canceled
too early.
So when bad boys comedy camearound, when you brung up Tony
Woods, that's when I firstdiscovered Tony Woods up there.
But it was like a smorgasbordof people With bad boys come
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because you got the New Yorkcomments.
She had the down south commentsat Midwest East Coast, whatever
.
But like I've interviewed andtalked to a couple people in New
York and they just love it.
They say, man, I could go tothree mics a night.
Compared to Virginia, we onlyhave like maybe one, but two
quality ones they'll pull up.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's the thing.
That's one of the things I loveabout New York and performing
here is, you know, the moneyobviously is other places, but
the fact that you can get I knowit's someone who can do Like
five shows average a night.
I Think I can't remember whohas the the top, like who was
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who's done the most and how muchthat, how many that was.
But there's a comic, jaredWaters, and His nickname is
turbo because he is.
He can go to so many shows inone night.
And then, you know, I talked topeople who perform other places
and they're like, yeah, youknow, maybe it's like, so if we
get three shows a week, it's,it's, it's good, you know, and
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you and they're so far away fromeach other that you can't get
from one to the other.
You know, like I had to leave ashow the other day.
I was hosting two showsback-to-back and they're about a
half an hour away from eachother.
So I, you know, I told the lastcommunity.
I was like you're gonna have toend this show.
I'm really sorry, but I'm notgiving up this other money.
Um, so I got on a train.
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I was there in like 20 minutes.
I was there 15 minutes earlyready to go.
Let's do it.
And I don't know how many othercities I'd be able to do that
in.
When I was in Boston, I wasable to do a few shows a night,
but primarily because two ofthem were in the same location
but was able to take the tee andget to the other one.
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It was not as easy though it isin New York, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, no, I just like you'll get one.
It'll start off good and thenit just turns into a fucking
fiasco, so I'll step away fromit.
I it was a point even after thelockdown I was still doing
virtual mics and that's no crowd, no real host.
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But the best thing about Icould do like four mice without
having to put my pants on.
I just sit right here in theliving room.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So good, so good, just Sit down comedy.
Just I just put on a lip, did Ishower Maybe?
Maybe, maybe you get smellingthrough the screen, so it
doesn't matter.
I During pandemic I wasn't sureI was going to do zoom comedy.
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I know people had likeAttitudes about it and maintain
that same attitude throughoutpandemic.
But then I ended up startedmaking a lot of money during
zoom Shows that, like thesecompanies were paying red.
So for ten minutes and I didn'thave to leave the house.
You signed me up.
But the first show that I didwhich kind of broke any any
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thought I had about whether ornot I was in a do zoom comedy or
not, my friend Beth Maria wasdoing, who's also a comic, was
doing a fundraiser to help get3d mass covers made for medical
like Medical people, theessentials, the people who kept
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us alive for them and then wewere able to also get some for
the MTA.
So she was doing a fundraiserand I was like, all right, well,
if I have the time, I'm notdoing anything.
So I have the time and let medo the Zoom show so I can help
out in the best way that I know.
And that helped me so muchbecause I had a lot of
experience and I was able to doit and I was able to do it and I
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was able to do it and thathelped me so much because I
didn't really know how to useZoom and so I didn't know that
you could like slide over to seedifferent views.
So I was just on that first viewand there was just a little box
with the man, like the little,like gray circle, like person
(28:50):
emoji thing, and I did my wholeset to that and the only time it
would flash is if someone likemade a noise or laughed and I
was like this this can only goup from here, this is so bad.
It feels so awkward, but once Irealize how you know, just swipe
(29:11):
on over and you can seeeveryone that it was fine.
I did a lot of Zoom shows.
I'm not going to lie, it wasone of the most irritating
things about doing comedy thatyou see all the fucking time.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
What's the most irritating?
I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
What's the most irritating.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, like annoying this, ain't it?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Okay, I have a few things.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The laugh got me, and then the pearly whites came out
.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You things that really bothered me.
I understand crowd work and howwe all need clips and all of
that, but when the fourth orfifth comic asked the same exact
questions that I, as a host,and the first three comics have
already asked, it just becomesso like redundant and you can
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tell that the audience is overbeing asked the same exact
question.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
It's so irritating.
So sometimes when I come in, Ilike to.
I always like to.
If I'm late, I like to have aconversation with the host, like
hey, what do you know about theaudience?
So that I'm already, I canalready get myself acclimated to
the room and what's happeningand what did I miss?
You know, and I'm happy to dothat for any comic that comes in
if they want to know.
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You know, when they just comeup there and just start
repeating the same thing, it'sjust like okay, I need you to do
something different.
Second, I hate when comicsbelittle the people being there,
like if it's a small show or ifit's, you know, if the crowds,
you know, still need somewarming up, when they're like
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why are you?
Oh god, you guys must not haveany lives.
Why are you here in this backroom?
It's like they're here to makeyour dreams come true.
They're spending their time andtheir money and the least thing
that you can do is tell thejokes and be a tad bit
appreciative that they aregiving of their time and their
energy, because they could beanywhere else in the world right
now.
They don't have to be here.
(31:21):
Um, I, I hate when people run mylight, don't, don't run my
light.
I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
And when people do itunapologetically, especially
when they're not getting laughslike if you're getting laughs,
all right, cool, cool, cool,cool, cool.
I'll let you leave on that high, no problem.
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But if you're dragging it andit's not going well, and now
you're three minutes over thelight, I will walk up on stage,
get off the stage.
You are ruining everything.
I think that those are my topthree.
I'm sure I could go on.
Those are the ones that are themost annoying.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I think my top three was like what you said when
people asked the audience thesame thing.
So like I did an open mic whenit was like I wish I was
exaggerating.
It was 40 comedians.
We're all getting three minutes.
First, I'm like number 38.
I got doing that.
(32:26):
What's going on?
Second comedian hey, how areyou doing tonight?
What's going on?
I'm like God damn.
So I call myself going up thereand say hey, how are you doing
tonight?
Don't worry about answering it.
You had 37 other comediansbefore me say the same shit.
Set the crowd off.
I hate when people try and skipthe actual grind and then get
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mad Meaning.
It's like a comedian thathasn't been doing it even a year
, as never touch the actualcomedy stage, but wants to shoot
a special with 300 followersand then wants to bring you in
on it and does the most.
I also hate when I have somecomedians like here.
We get comedians that want tobe everything but a comedian.
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They want to be a booker, theywant to be a talent manager,
they want to be a mentor.
Don't even have ink on theresume.
Meanwhile you got somebody thathas ink on their resume and you
come up here trying to schoolthem.
I'm like, bro, I will slap fireout of you If you critique my
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shit because you have yet tofucking put in work.
I had a comedian self told meone time motherfuckers had 131
followers 131.
That might have been his baby,mama's couple, church folks,
family and coworkers.
Yeah, man, I'm going on tour.
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I'm like how long we doingcomedy?
Don't worry about that man.
Probably about seven months.
I'm like, bro, wherever youperform that, nowhere it's
church.
I was like, yeah, this shitain't gonna wear a big dog.
I think you need to come onback to the drum board, get a
little, you know, get a 10 goodquality half hour set and come
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back and hold it.
That's the one thing.
And then they hit you up whenthe shit don't go right and get
mad.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Like try to warn you, Try to tell you, ok, no, yeah,
I think.
I think people like to skipsteps and don't want to put in
the work and that that is veryannoying.
But I guess you know, to eachhis own, everyone has their own
journey.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Big face, big face.
Before we sign off, let me justsay it's one.
I appreciate your patience withthe interview.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I did too.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, this is fun.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Amen, if you ever in Virginia, that West Virginia,
because I'm not going to bethere, I'm not going to be there
.
Hell, no, oh, pete.
He said Pete this very lasttime, peter's Berg and we got
some called Lynchburg, you wouldnever see me there.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I think I think I've actually been to Lynchburg.
No, duh, dude, dude, what?
Dunwoody, dunwoody, dunwoody.
I've been at Dunwoody.
My friends buried their rest inpeace to Ariane.
Yeah, I've been to Dunwoody andwe used to go to Peter's Berg.
My godmother is from Peter'sBerg, virginia.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
No, it's nothing but land and peanuts out there.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
OK, I saw and churches and churches, lots of
churches, lots of churches.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
We praise the Lord and get some boiled peanuts in
the same radius, you knowexactly.
Before we go.
Like I said, I do appreciateeverything.
I need to communicate better.
I had a lot of stuff going on.
Well, not a lot.
I was just focusing on onething and now back, but I
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definitely appreciate theinterview.
If anybody wants to see yourcontent, getting content with
you, and see the brand, wheredid it go and how did they find
you?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So you can find me on the Old People app, facebook.
I'm still on that Darah Jamattwo M's, two T's.
I'm also on Instagram atchocolate J E M.
Not because I don't know how tospell Gem, ok, it's just a play
(36:58):
on my last name, which is J E MM O T T.
I'm not on Twitter or X orwhatever it's called, because I
don't want to get canceledbefore I start a career and I am
Re-reviewing my content onYouTube.
But you can you can also catchsome of the things that I've
(37:22):
done on YouTube.
Darah Jamat is the channel.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, make sure you support Darah Jamat and this I
know some spot to pop for I knowif it's not already has is
definitely something to work,but make sure you like, share,
subscribe her content as well asmy content.
We're going to put the linksdown below in the description
and once again, there is DarahJamat.
I appreciate you coming on andthe patience that you've had
(37:50):
with everything, so I'm signingoff here for no idea.
Please start recording.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode
of the no ID podcast is me,your host, jerome Davis.
I have here fellow comedian.
She was featured on America'sGot Talent.
She is a professional of livingher best life.
You see her Instagram.
Her page is nothing but vibes.
You see her all around doingher thing.
I'm very proud I discovered her.
(00:24):
I want to say discover her.
I saw her on the explore page.
I won't say discover becauseI'm not no damn talent host, no
booking agent and none of that.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The one on there, Hell I ain't no, chris McLean,
discover shit.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Darrell Jermott, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm doing well, jerome.
I'm very happy to be here.
One thank you for that amazingintro.
One thing is I have to clarifybefore people get on Google and
start calling me out.
I was not actually on America'sGot Talent, but I auditioned
for the executive producers, sothat's where that picture came
(01:09):
from, just to read.
I just don't want anyone beinglike this.
So yeah, but yeah, I got far inthe game, but never made it to
the actual stage.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, let's start.
How was that audition?
Because I just did one back inFebruary.
I was that audition.
It was nerve wrecking.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It was nerve wrecking .
I had a really non-conventionalaudition and congratulations on
your audition.
That's awesome.
I had a pretty non-conventionalaudition experience because I
used to host a mic in Brooklyn,a Wednesday comedy workout.
Shout out to Joanna Briley andeveryone who used to come.
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We were approached for one ofthe producers to come to the mic
and have an audition there.
I was hosting the mic.
I almost didn't even auditionbecause it felt weird.
I don't know I was getting inmy head.
I don't know why I wouldn'thave auditioned.
That would have been silly.
I ended up auditioning and webasically got front-loaded to
(02:16):
the executive producers fromthere.
I just showed up at the JavitsCenter and was escorted into a
room.
I didn't really have to waitonline or apply or do any of
those things.
I just showed up.
Yay Sounds incredibly unfair tosay out loud, but it's what
(02:45):
happened.
It was a really greatexperience.
It was a few years ago at thispoint, so I was still pretty
green.
I don't know if I would do itagain, but maybe Maybe I think
you should do it again.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, I think so.
I think anytime you do it onetime, and let's just say it
didn't go the way that youwanted it to do, just go again.
Shit, what do we have to lose?
We, as comedians, will drivethree hours for three minutes
set.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I've done things for comedy that I would never have
done for anything ever.
I was walking to meet my friendat a bar the other day and it
was down this sketchy, seedyblock.
If this was for a comedy show,I would have no problem doing
this.
I'd be like no, no, no, no.
(03:40):
But I was like this is just forfun and just what.
This is so dangerous.
I got to get out of here, See,but I walked down the shadiest
blocks for a comedy show.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I walked through the shadiest blocks, performing the
raggidest of buildings.
We all know how that shitstarts, man.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Exactly.
I've gone up the subway andI've looked at the street sign
and I'm like these are addressesI've only heard in rap songs
One, two, three, and I'm playing.
I'm like we're going to do acomedy show.
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Damn, what's the raggidest, the most sketch place
you've ever performed at, I'mgoing to say recently.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I can't remember any recently, but during pandemic
there was this place, whichthey've cleaned it up.
They're inside now, but anyonewho performs in New York and if
they performed in pandemic mightremember when Tiny Covered in
Brooklyn first started, it wason the rooftop and you had to
(05:00):
climb several stairs, oneincluding one where it felt like
you were at any moment going tofall off and fall to your death
, and then the roof startedsinking.
They would barrier it offbecause there were all these
(05:23):
soft spots in the roof that itmay or may not have been great
to step on.
There was also no guardrailaround the roof, so just and
people would drink up there allthe time.
The fact that no one died islike.
I don't know how that happened,but there are people who would
not come back because they werelike I'm not climbing the stairs
(05:46):
, so that they're now like it'sa whole club inside.
It's beautiful.
They've done all theserenovations and stuff.
When it first started we wererisking our life for comedy,
both with COVID and with ourdexterity in climbing stairs.
We were taking gambles.
So yeah, I don't.
(06:07):
I can't remember any raggingplaces recently, thank God.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Elevated your life.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I've elevated.
I've elevated.
Never mind the sirens, I'veelevated.
It's like you want a raggedyblock right now.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So yeah, they didn't have no sillings.
Meanwhile you got sirens goingon in the background the whole
time.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
How long have you been in the comedy game and what
made you, or who made you, jumpinto it?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So I started in 2014.
I started September.
2014 was my first show, and howI started was I went on a date
with a guy and it was May 19th.
I love this story so much.
It was May 19th, Malcolm X'sbirthday, and I remember this
(07:01):
because on our first date, hetakes me to the Shabazz Center
in Harlem for a celebration ofMalcolm X's life.
Now, next to me on our firstdate, my date was over here, but
over here was my date'sgrandmother, and next to my
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date's grandmother were all fourof Malcolm X's daughters, when
they were all still alive.
So I only give you the contextof this so that you can
understand why I was so upset.
Later, May then later took meto his job.
So again, I'm still on my P'sand Q's.
I'm on my best behavior becausewe just came from Grandma Ma.
(07:44):
Now we're in front of thecoworkers like I'm trying to be
good, you know.
So we're passing a comedy clubwhich is actually one of my home
clubs now, Grizzly Pear, onMcDougal, and he had been
listening and he said I got asurprise for you.
I'm like okay, and he saidwe're going to go to.
He said once we turned upMcDougal, I knew we were going
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to my Moons, which is like oneof my favorite places in New
York cheap falafel, real,delicious Staple in New York
City.
So we're passing the pear,someone's selling tickets
outside and I said we're goingto get food.
He said, well, you can bringthe food back.
And then I jokingly said well,if I come back, we come back.
I'm getting on stage and mydate looks at the guy and says,
(08:28):
no, she's not, she's not funny.
I can still feel my bloodboiling every, every time I tell
the story of my blood boils tothe point where I want to cause
physical harm to this man whosename I can't even remember at
this point, Like I can't evenremember who this dude was, but
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I remember we got my Moons.
We came back to the show, thecrowd work wasn't going well.
My responses to the crowd workwere better than their
punchlines.
And then at the end my date waslike oh, you are funny.
And I was like this is above menow.
This is above you now.
I now have to show the worldhow funny I am because you got
(09:11):
me fucked up.
So, yeah, we're on a pettyrevenge mission.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Eight years in.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Look, I'm a Sagittarius, I hold a grudge.
Okay, once you, once you crossme, you're dead to me and I'm
going to piss on your ashes.
So that's what we're doing.
So, yeah, that's how I startedto get in the comedy.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
You remember that first time have you ever bombed,
even at first bad show, thatfirst bad set, like that first
bomb?
How was it?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Um, okay, this is going to sound like BS, but I
fundamentally don't believe inbombs.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Here's why.
And he actually told me to stoptelling people this.
But I can't stop telling peoplethis, and then when I tell
people this, I've got to givethe credit.
So it's to chicken and egg.
I was having a conversationwith Tony Woods one day and he
was like we had both donemingles, and mingles is a
particularly hard show.
I had been warned, so that wastechnically a bomb, like it was.
(10:23):
It was like performing for oldCaribbean people Like is like
being at my family reunion andnobody cared and it was really
hard because the championshipgame was playing behind us.
The NBA championship was like.
It was like LeBron and Curry.
So this was this was a fewyears ago too and he I come back
(10:46):
in after my not great set andhe's like basically watching the
game with them, like he's just,he's just handling it so well.
And when he got off stage,we're having conversation and
he's like there's a differencebetween winners and champions.
Winners lose, champions learn.
So from every bomb experiencethat you have, it's really an
(11:11):
opportunity to learn something.
It's an opportunity to lookback.
Listen to the tape.
What didn't go well?
Was it my energy?
Did I need to clear somethingfrom my head before I got on
stage.
Was it something that washappening in the room that I
didn't address?
Did I miss a word in one of mysetups?
What happened?
(11:32):
It's a way to be inquisitiveabout what it is that you're
doing and how people arereceiving it, rather than just
be like, oh, that didn't go welland want to shoot yourself.
So ever since he said that,that kind of shifted my
perspective on how I think aboutnot doing well on stage.
But we can call mingles a bomb.
(11:57):
Also, I was supposed to do likefive minutes and the host shout
out to Smokey, left me on stagefor like 13 minutes and I
didn't know that, didn't knowthat was going to happen, and it
was like eight years ago.
So I was mentally prepared forfive.
(12:17):
And here we are, 13 minuteslater Just trying to entertain
these old Caribbean people.
I just felt like it was like mygrandpa just looking at me,
just like not happy to be there,very upset at me for
interrupting his sports watching.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We got a room.
We have a room like that herein Virginia and it's the same
way.
It's like a Caribbean, jamaicantype spot.
Tvs are blaring up andeverybody goes and he's like man
, I did not bomb.
I did not bomb, I was like Idon't know if he was at the same
show I was at, but we all bomband I remember like I only went
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there two times, but it was thisone guy that was going there.
He went there like three weeksin a row.
His uncle was bring, come there.
Let me tell you something.
That third time but it retiredfrom comedy.
It was just so fucking tough toget over in there, like Kevin
Hart, mike Epps, zanae, josh,could have came out there and
(13:21):
did their best work.
They did not give two fuckswhat we said up in there.
Like I was like yo, this is,this is rough, and that was like
what, like a year and a halfago, and I was like damn.
But I was like damn, I bombed.
It was like bro, you didn'tbomb Everybody in here, bomb it
(13:44):
didn't matter.
But you hear folks Me killedthat shit.
Like bro, I don't know whatroom you was in, but you bombed.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, no, and I don't believe in that.
Do Lulu behavior either, whereit's like, where someone's like
I did grass, what did you know?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But I do find solace when everysingle person gets off stage
and they're like damn, you know,because they didn't know, it's
not just me that they didn'tlike, and because I host a lot,
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sometimes it's really hard forme to gauge what's happening.
You know like maybe they justdon't like me.
But by the third comic, ifthey're not into the vibes, I'm
like okay, well, good, it's allof us.
It's all of us that they don'tlike.
I also, whenever, whenever Ifeel because I never like to
blame the audience and sometimesit's it is just the vibe of the
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audience, sometimes it's justit's hard.
And I think, coming out ofpandemic, I think a lot of
people have watched so muchcomedy at home that they don't
understand the energeticreciprocal experience that a
comedy show is.
If you give us energy, we'regoing to give you energy.
Now, thinking that whenaudiences aren't giving me
(14:59):
energy, I almost go into like ahyperactive child mode, like I
doubled down on the energy.
I'm going to be all up in yourface.
I'm almost going to force youand drag that smile at least out
of you, because I'm not payingto be here.
I am getting paid to be here.
I don't know what you left yourhouse for, but you're here for
(15:21):
a good time.
So either get on board or watchthis manic behavior.
I'm making everybodyuncomfortable.
How about that?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I've been in some room with comedians at going on
the stage and told inside jokes.
They'm like man.
The fucking crowd didn't get us.
I know I don't think theydidn't get it.
I don't know comedy.
I know what I'm doing.
Like bro, you're up, you're onthe stage telling inside jokes.
You wreck the crowd.
I won't blame the crowdpersonally.
(15:55):
I was like man.
It could be the person in frontof me.
It could have been the host.
I think one time a fight brokeout no-transcript, and another
time I had a chicken bone thrownat me and a dinner roll.
Yeah, oh, damn bro.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Wait, why are you the second comedians Chicken bone
throwing at them?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know, he did it on purpose.
And then, but I'm five for four, I can't, you know me, I don't
have no dog in the fight and myvoice is not as deep.
So, like I saw the chicken bonecome at my feet, I'm like who
the fuck through it?
I didn't work.
You know, dinner roll came atme like another time and then, I
don't know, they cut the lightsoff on me.
(16:42):
I've had lights cut off on me.
I had the music played on me.
This is early in my career.
I took a month off from comedyand I say I'm gonna start a
podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And here we are here we are.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
You know, I fuck, but nah, man Nah.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I haven't had a chicken bone thrown at me.
I have had a fight start duringmy set and I have had the
lights turned off on me, whichwas wild, because I was is
actually Virginia.
I was doing 20 minutes inVirginia and I was really
excited.
It was one of my first roadtrips.
It was right before a pandemicand I think we were in like West
(17:24):
Virginia too, and yeah yeah.
So About six maybe seven minutesinto my 20 minutes, the lights
just go out and like I've been adancer all my life and One
thing that is instilled in me asthe show goes on, like I've
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danced with no music, when themusic cut out, you know you,
just you got to work with it.
So I'm like I can't leave thestage just because I'm in the
dark.
So I did about 13 minutes inthe dark in a dark room with
like 300 white people and myhead I'm like, did they my head
(18:12):
the whole time?
I'm like is this an accident orare they doing this to mess
with me because I'm black?
Like I did not know, and that'sjust most cycling in the back
of my head and of course, I hadto say some like real crazy
things, like Okay, well, I knowyou can't see me, but just
follow the teeth, you know.
In hindsight I'm like it feels alittle coonery and buffoonery,
(18:32):
but I had to say something sothat we could all get on board
with the fact that I am in thedark and I'm doing this anyway.
And then the guy who wasrunning the lights, he was
really out of like apologetic.
He bought me a drink, but Istill I don't know.
I feel like I Don't know.
I still, to this day, don'tknow if they did that on purpose
(18:54):
or not.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You in West Virginia.
You in West Virginia they sayNAACP with the heart are up
there.
I do not go out that bitch.
I don't go nowhere with myselfon services not accepted.
That means my black ass is notgoing accepted at all.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, no, yeah, I've had.
I've had some good experiencesin West Virginia, though, but I
go there sparingly.
If they were paying me, I wouldnot be in West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So you ain't been to my part of Virginia, so we good.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I'm in the regular Virginia was actually black
people.
That's allowed to a certainextent.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Were you in like Petersburg.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
No, who hell?
Not Petersburg, not a notallowed there.
But uh, I Am in Chesapeake,Virginia.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I've been.
I've been a few places ofVirginia.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is.
That's okay.
The comedy scene here isfucking weird, but it is what it
is.
I Speak in a road trips.
How is comedy on the road beinga role comic, a traveling comic
?
How is that life?
Is it interesting?
I know you get different vibesand stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, it's different vibes I haven't done.
I want to do more of it.
I haven't done as much roadcomedy as I would like to.
I've done Virginia, I've doneBoston, I've even done it in
like London and Barcelona, but Ifind the road life to be it's
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interesting and and also alittle lonely, because you know
you're there and you're justwaiting all day for this show at
night and and it's it's.
It's lonely but also I like Ilike Adventures and I like
meeting people and I like goingto different spaces and like I
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just did a show in Atlantic Citya few weeks ago and there were
these people from pine something, new Jersey, I can't.
I can't remember what it wasand I'm from New Jersey and I
had no clue where they weretalking about.
And there was, like thesepeople from pine, whatever New
Jersey looked like they hadnever Even met a black person,
(21:24):
like there's no black peoplethere after the sun goes down
ever.
They were giving real sundown,sundown.
But it was so great is thatwhen I got on stage, one of the
guys like even like trucker hatand beard down here Came over
(21:45):
and pie my shoulder he was likeyou were so great.
So there's something, I think,really magical.
And even that same thinghappened when I performed in
West Virginia, like I waswalking around the casino after
and I was having all theseconversations with people who I
wouldn't be able to interactwith if I didn't do comedy.
You know, like we, if we werejust two people in Walmart, we
(22:05):
wouldn't talk to each other.
You know, I mean, I probablywouldn't be in their town if
someone wasn't paying me tobegin with, but To begin with,
but to be, to be able to havethat bond and to be able to, you
know, get past the perceptionof what, of what each other is
thinking about the other and,you know, unify over jokes that
I made.
I feel like it's it's, it'stremendously gratifying.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I yeah, I get it.
When I go out of town.
This I book my hotel to makesure it has like a restaurant in
the hotel, cuz.
I don't know shit about what'sgoing on.
I think I was in Connecticutone time.
I was at the Mohegan Sunperforming.
I thought, oh hell, no, I'llmake sure my shit got a cafe in
there.
I was in LA, did the same thing, but uh, like the anticipation
(22:53):
of waiting for the show.
I get there the day before, I'mgonna get there the day before,
get myself together, but theTensipation for waiting for the
show, like you trying to clearyour head, but I don't want to
go out here and waste time andwhatever other money I invested
To essentially bomb.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Did you Bob?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I didn't bomb.
I didn't bomb, I had a okay set.
It was very mid to what I do.
And that's when I was inConnecticut and I was like yo,
what the fuck?
But I had a guy.
I Got mad and a little enviouscuz he got up there and just
talking about shooting cocaineup for five minutes and I was
(23:37):
like I can't, I don't even takecough syrup.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Why don't you take off syrup?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I believe in holistic killing.
I we're gonna leave it there,we're gonna leave it there,
we'll leave it there, we'regonna leave it there.
Actually, like New York comedy,because New York comedy shows
one of the reasons why I gotinto comedy, like I Credit a lot
of people in New York, like Ilove Jerry Seinfeld is my
(24:08):
favorite comedian, playing handsdown a simple and bad boys a
comedy and my eyes was like theship before but it was canceled
too early.
So when bad boys comedy camearound, when you brung up Tony
Woods, that's when I firstdiscovered Tony Woods up there.
But it was like a smorgasbordof people With bad boys come
(24:29):
because you got the New Yorkcomments.
She had the down south commentsat Midwest East Coast, whatever
.
But like I've interviewed andtalked to a couple people in New
York and they just love it.
They say, man, I could go tothree mics a night.
Compared to Virginia, we onlyhave like maybe one, but two
quality ones they'll pull up.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That's the thing.
That's one of the things I loveabout New York and performing
here is, you know, the moneyobviously is other places, but
the fact that you can get I knowit's someone who can do Like
five shows average a night.
I Think I can't remember whohas the the top, like who was
(25:15):
who's done the most and how muchthat, how many that was.
But there's a comic, jaredWaters, and His nickname is
turbo because he is.
He can go to so many shows inone night.
And then, you know, I talked topeople who perform other places
and they're like, yeah, youknow, maybe it's like, so if we
get three shows a week, it's,it's, it's good, you know, and
(25:37):
you and they're so far away fromeach other that you can't get
from one to the other.
You know, like I had to leave ashow the other day.
I was hosting two showsback-to-back and they're about a
half an hour away from eachother.
So I, you know, I told the lastcommunity.
I was like you're gonna have toend this show.
I'm really sorry, but I'm notgiving up this other money.
Um, so I got on a train.
(25:58):
I was there in like 20 minutes.
I was there 15 minutes earlyready to go.
Let's do it.
And I don't know how many othercities I'd be able to do that
in.
When I was in Boston, I wasable to do a few shows a night,
but primarily because two ofthem were in the same location
but was able to take the tee andget to the other one.
(26:21):
It was not as easy though it isin New York, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, no, I just like you'll get one.
It'll start off good and thenit just turns into a fucking
fiasco, so I'll step away fromit.
I it was a point even after thelockdown I was still doing
virtual mics and that's no crowd, no real host.
(26:53):
But the best thing about Icould do like four mice without
having to put my pants on.
I just sit right here in theliving room.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So good, so good, just Sit down comedy.
Just I just put on a lip, did Ishower Maybe?
Maybe, maybe you get smellingthrough the screen, so it
doesn't matter.
I During pandemic I wasn't sureI was going to do zoom comedy.
(27:25):
I know people had likeAttitudes about it and maintain
that same attitude throughoutpandemic.
But then I ended up startedmaking a lot of money during
zoom Shows that, like thesecompanies were paying red.
So for ten minutes and I didn'thave to leave the house.
You signed me up.
But the first show that I didwhich kind of broke any any
(27:46):
thought I had about whether ornot I was in a do zoom comedy or
not, my friend Beth Maria wasdoing, who's also a comic, was
doing a fundraiser to help get3d mass covers made for medical
like Medical people, theessentials, the people who kept
(28:07):
us alive for them and then wewere able to also get some for
the MTA.
So she was doing a fundraiserand I was like, all right, well,
if I have the time, I'm notdoing anything.
So I have the time and let medo the Zoom show so I can help
out in the best way that I know.
And that helped me so muchbecause I had a lot of
experience and I was able to doit and I was able to do it and I
(28:29):
was able to do it and thathelped me so much because I
didn't really know how to useZoom and so I didn't know that
you could like slide over to seedifferent views.
So I was just on that first viewand there was just a little box
with the man, like the little,like gray circle, like person
(28:50):
emoji thing, and I did my wholeset to that and the only time it
would flash is if someone likemade a noise or laughed and I
was like this this can only goup from here, this is so bad.
It feels so awkward, but once Irealize how you know, just swipe
(29:11):
on over and you can seeeveryone that it was fine.
I did a lot of Zoom shows.
I'm not going to lie, it wasone of the most irritating
things about doing comedy thatyou see all the fucking time.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
What's the most irritating?
I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
What's the most irritating.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, like annoying this, ain't it?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Okay, I have a few things.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The laugh got me, and then the pearly whites came out
.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
You things that really bothered me.
I understand crowd work and howwe all need clips and all of
that, but when the fourth orfifth comic asked the same exact
questions that I, as a host,and the first three comics have
already asked, it just becomesso like redundant and you can
(30:10):
tell that the audience is overbeing asked the same exact
question.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
It's so irritating.
So sometimes when I come in, Ilike to.
I always like to.
If I'm late, I like to have aconversation with the host, like
hey, what do you know about theaudience?
So that I'm already, I canalready get myself acclimated to
the room and what's happeningand what did I miss?
You know, and I'm happy to dothat for any comic that comes in
if they want to know.
(30:39):
You know, when they just comeup there and just start
repeating the same thing, it'sjust like okay, I need you to do
something different.
Second, I hate when comicsbelittle the people being there,
like if it's a small show or ifit's, you know, if the crowds,
you know, still need somewarming up, when they're like
(31:00):
why are you?
Oh god, you guys must not haveany lives.
Why are you here in this backroom?
It's like they're here to makeyour dreams come true.
They're spending their time andtheir money and the least thing
that you can do is tell thejokes and be a tad bit
appreciative that they aregiving of their time and their
energy, because they could beanywhere else in the world right
now.
They don't have to be here.
(31:21):
Um, I, I hate when people run mylight, don't, don't run my
light.
I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
And when people do itunapologetically, especially
when they're not getting laughslike if you're getting laughs,
all right, cool, cool, cool,cool, cool.
I'll let you leave on that high, no problem.
(31:43):
But if you're dragging it andit's not going well, and now
you're three minutes over thelight, I will walk up on stage,
get off the stage.
You are ruining everything.
I think that those are my topthree.
I'm sure I could go on.
Those are the ones that are themost annoying.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I think my top three was like what you said when
people asked the audience thesame thing.
So like I did an open mic whenit was like I wish I was
exaggerating.
It was 40 comedians.
We're all getting three minutes.
First, I'm like number 38.
I got doing that.
(32:26):
What's going on?
Second comedian hey, how areyou doing tonight?
What's going on?
I'm like God damn.
So I call myself going up thereand say hey, how are you doing
tonight?
Don't worry about answering it.
You had 37 other comediansbefore me say the same shit.
Set the crowd off.
I hate when people try and skipthe actual grind and then get
(32:54):
mad Meaning.
It's like a comedian thathasn't been doing it even a year
, as never touch the actualcomedy stage, but wants to shoot
a special with 300 followersand then wants to bring you in
on it and does the most.
I also hate when I have somecomedians like here.
We get comedians that want tobe everything but a comedian.
(33:17):
They want to be a booker, theywant to be a talent manager,
they want to be a mentor.
Don't even have ink on theresume.
Meanwhile you got somebody thathas ink on their resume and you
come up here trying to schoolthem.
I'm like, bro, I will slap fireout of you If you critique my
(33:39):
shit because you have yet tofucking put in work.
I had a comedian self told meone time motherfuckers had 131
followers 131.
That might have been his baby,mama's couple, church folks,
family and coworkers.
Yeah, man, I'm going on tour.
(33:59):
I'm like how long we doingcomedy?
Don't worry about that man.
Probably about seven months.
I'm like, bro, wherever youperform that, nowhere it's
church.
I was like, yeah, this shitain't gonna wear a big dog.
I think you need to come onback to the drum board, get a
little, you know, get a 10 goodquality half hour set and come
(34:19):
back and hold it.
That's the one thing.
And then they hit you up whenthe shit don't go right and get
mad.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Like try to warn you, Try to tell you, ok, no, yeah,
I think.
I think people like to skipsteps and don't want to put in
the work and that that is veryannoying.
But I guess you know, to eachhis own, everyone has their own
journey.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Big face, big face.
Before we sign off, let me justsay it's one.
I appreciate your patience withthe interview.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, I had to.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I did too.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, this is fun.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Amen, if you ever in Virginia, that West Virginia,
because I'm not going to bethere, I'm not going to be there
.
Hell, no, oh, pete.
He said Pete this very lasttime, peter's Berg and we got
some called Lynchburg, you wouldnever see me there.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I think I think I've actually been to Lynchburg.
No, duh, dude, dude, what?
Dunwoody, dunwoody, dunwoody.
I've been at Dunwoody.
My friends buried their rest inpeace to Ariane.
Yeah, I've been to Dunwoody andwe used to go to Peter's Berg.
My godmother is from Peter'sBerg, virginia.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
No, it's nothing but land and peanuts out there.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
OK, I saw and churches and churches, lots of
churches, lots of churches.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
We praise the Lord and get some boiled peanuts in
the same radius, you knowexactly.
Before we go.
Like I said, I do appreciateeverything.
I need to communicate better.
I had a lot of stuff going on.
Well, not a lot.
I was just focusing on onething and now back, but I
(36:24):
definitely appreciate theinterview.
If anybody wants to see yourcontent, getting content with
you, and see the brand, wheredid it go and how did they find
you?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So you can find me on the Old People app, facebook.
I'm still on that Darah Jamattwo M's, two T's.
I'm also on Instagram atchocolate J E M.
Not because I don't know how tospell Gem, ok, it's just a play
(36:58):
on my last name, which is J E MM O T T.
I'm not on Twitter or X orwhatever it's called, because I
don't want to get canceledbefore I start a career and I am
Re-reviewing my content onYouTube.
But you can you can also catchsome of the things that I've
(37:22):
done on YouTube.
Darah Jamat is the channel.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah, make sure you support Darah Jamat and this I
know some spot to pop for I knowif it's not already has is
definitely something to work,but make sure you like, share,
subscribe her content as well asmy content.
We're going to put the linksdown below in the description
and once again, there is DarahJamat.
I appreciate you coming on andthe patience that you've had
(37:50):
with everything, so I'm signingoff here for no idea.
Please start recording.
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