Symmetry the teacher had passed out these outlines of shapes
I had got a outline of a heart
So I just the outline of a heart and I was supposed to be folding it to see if where it was symmetrical
So I folded it was it hot dog hot dog style
Yeah, long ways long way and I held it up to my face and it looked like a mustache and a beard
Exactly, right?
When you're in second grade showed it to the class and everybody died everybody died and I was like, yeah
Yep, this is why I'm supposed to be this is it turned on like I was like, yeah
I'm in it now. You heard it here first man. Jaylen Brown got turned on in the second grade
This is the clown college podcast
We're just a couple open micers trying to make our way through the scene where we interview
Comedians throughout different stages of their comedy career no matter if they're open micers headliners or traveling comedians
I'm here to Jamie 2.0. I just talked a lot more. Damn it Brandon go sit in the corner
We live
College comedy
JJ Patton, that's not my last name is Peyton
I did this so many times. What's the girl's name?
Raina Raina. I got it now. I got it now. It's inside joke. You guys don't know but I can't say people's names a lot because I'm retarded
Okay, I'm glad we getting that out of the way, you know, this is how it's gonna be
This is what you great I'm saying
Hey, especially you
Brandon has documentation
He has a handler
You putting your hand in the pocket
You putting your headphones on yeah
Joe Rogan, I want to feel like a feel like a podcast. It's all official and shit do my arms like this. I think so
What you been up to Brandon
Living life
That's what I love to hear. All right
All right, they want you want to tell the fans future fans. Oh, yeah, what will we doing here? Yeah, we're we're
shitty podcast
Obviously trying to bring attention to the Huntsville scene of comedy
There's funny people here. They're legitimately funny people here people that will kill a room
It's just they don't have the exposure
We're still kind of behind in the regard of social media and getting out online and we're trying to change that
Give the scene a platform bring attention to everybody
Hopefully get their names out there get them some recognition that they deserve our boy
Heath shout out our boy Heath Cordish out there in Austin killing it when the golden ticket on kill tone
Oh ticket that love that motherfucker man. Go watch that out of you
It's who was who was the other guest on that episode. It was Mike Feeney Ryan sickler and
And uh, oh one more yannis poppins yeah, yeah, yeah, so go watch that episode
He's a little guy at the end. He gets the golden ticket. He gets a standing ovation. He's a he was a Huntsville
Comets no guy. He was from Coleman. He drive an hour up to Huntsville just to do the mics
I only met him twice but a great guy and
Every time I talked to every time I see him go up
He was hilarious and he didn't he didn't let Austin down when he killed killed that shit. Yeah
Bangers that's true. He got some heavy hitters and we will have one on the show today. Oh, yeah side of the bout
Oh, yeah, really put it put all of us on that says true open mics
He always hosts them him him and Alex Z. Jaylen Brown and Alex Z
So we're gonna and we're gonna learn from these guys, you know
They all been doing it way longer than us and you know, and we're just starting out
we're just open micers, but we want to become comedians and
Hopefully they'll help us and if you're out there looking to do the same thing or you just like to see the ins and outs of
What it's like behind the scenes
Come on over like and subscribe. Oh, yeah emphasis. We fucking suck right now as you're about to see the camera might not even be straight
I'm it's probably not you're gonna hear me in the background
But
So what's up, what else is new?
Nothing man, nothing same old bullshit doing the open mic. Yeah open mics. We got one tonight and uh
The boxcar I ain't wrote shit for it. No, I'm practicing my set man. Yeah next
I only got cuz Wednesday is there gonna be one on Wednesday? I think so we can ask Jaylen when he is here
Yeah, yeah, cuz he runs it
It is his mic that that mic last Wednesday was fucking crazy, dude
Five people showed up five comics and then there was four people in the audience
But there was a couple and they said they actually came to watch the open mic which never happens a fusion. Mm-hmm
crazy and uh
They I don't think they really fucked with with anybody that went out
I'm be honest cuz I went up first bomb and then uh, it was Jaylen was hosting so he didn't even do like a full
set with like actual jokes and shit and then um
You know Dante went up he came in late
But he went up two people went up twice and then Alan at the end
Jaylen was like there's any brave souls in the audience want to try it and
Alan raised his hand and he went up and I really thought that this old-ass white man was about to drop an embalm at this
Wouldn't be the first time Brandon can tell you
But yeah, that shit was it scared me. I was like white knuckling the table. I'm looking at Jaylen
I'm sweating I'm like, oh
yeah, cuz he was like, uh, he's like my neighbors keep arguing and uh
Stupid fucking Joe. He's like my neighbors keep arguing. They keep calling each other the n-word
Why do black people always call each other the n-word, you know, you you must have known he was black for you married him
I swear he had too many of those three dollar cores at fusion barbecue
You might hear an old man say the n-word
Or young I'm there too
You have the hairstyle for oh, yeah, you know, I can see that pad boy just flowing off once the sides go
There's less resistance. It just comes out the back to the front. You're ready. Watch these clips, man
Yeah, let's do some clips pull that up Jamie. Oh
There he is see what you pick man. Yeah
I unintentionally left an open tab of bowl jangles
That's something you do when you're at a bar fucked up and I mean
Yeah, but I'm fat so I don't know if you guys know this
You know, I'm the worst kind of fact fat with no ass
I'm shaped like the letter P
I'm built like an old hot water heater
I'm shaped like every youth minister ever
And that becomes a problem because I'm attracted to a door
Thanks for the clip
It could get a lot worse here guys. The reason I picked that clip though was you know that that's one of my favorite jokes that you
Tell that opener with the the Bojangles shit leaving the tab open but also, you know
Obviously that was a big moment for us because that was the first time one of us won one of the like open mic comedy
Competition, you know, I've never I've never even placed
Brandon I remember any place that rocket
Hell yeah, and then Dom won the whole fucking thing. I got lucky guys
No, that was a good set. That was a good set because
People were going up and they were bombing and you were the only person that pretty much that whole night. They got real left
Yeah, well, yeah that that that new dude and Brandon did
Yeah, cuz you remember they went on after yeah, I know up until that point though
Yeah, you were the first you broke the ice and then you were like to six comics
Five people went up there and just ate shit
myself included
What's named Jeffrey Jeremy
Yeah, yeah, oh
No, I know who you're talking about. He's funny. Yeah. Yeah. He had jokes. Yeah
All right. All right
Anything else about that one? Yeah. Well, yeah, how how'd you come up with the joke? Did that actually happen?
Okay, so so yeah, I'll give you guys some insight
So the actual the leave an open tab at Bojangles that is 100% true
It's embarrassing to say but these things happen guys act surprised. Yeah, I surprised please
No, so I actually did that and then
the
Well, what was that was the last one? I'm just on fat part the youth minister. Oh the youth minister letter P
Yeah, you don't even know your own joke. No, no, no, I was
That guys I told you in the beginning what I am
but uh
But yeah the youth minister cuz I was like I was like I do when I see myself in video and I was like
I look like a fucking youth minister. Yeah, I was like I don't like
It's not a good thing I went to church today I can I can confirm this I
Look like I'm about to teach somebody kids about how to make a more
Well, yeah, yeah, well that's how I came up with that joke actually Jonathan
Silver great like he's like the shout out Jonathan. So it was like the boss big dog silver dollar comedy night
And he told me he was like, hey man. I was I did an ozempic joke
Yeah, and he was like, I like where you going with that ozempic joke, but you just talked more about being fat. I was like
I was like I appreciate you just gotta be yourself talk more about being fat
Exactly exactly what he's saying, but I mean I appreciate it cuz I'm like I'm like, yeah, you're right
So I go in there and now I try to hit him with some you know
I'm saying you got to tear yourself down a little bit first. Yeah. Yeah
You can't be like cocky shit, huh?
It wasn't supposed to be that but I I'm glad I'm on this up and down it
I'm glad I'm on this up and down it. Oh my gosh, man. All right, let's pull up JJ
This motherfucker just keep yapping
My gosh, man, all right, let's pull up JJ
It's okay we're working through some technical difficulties
Oh, yeah, it's the first episode guys if you guys expected a low whatever your expectation is right now
Lower it lower it again and we'll be there in two months. Yeah
And if you like don't take anything I say too seriously because I will be wrong about a lot of things and think I'm gonna
Think that I'm right
100% I mean everything that I said none of it is a joke
I am I am an MD and I can tell you that Kovac wasn't fucking real
Can't wait to see that clip come back
So you're going to grad you're gonna walk and they're like, uh, I
Hear myself
No, you got a you know, you got to drag it over here, you know, you got the mic I mean the mouse
Just bring it
And then I restart it they can't hear right now and then time stamp this one
I'm saying timestamp and I had no idea what how to actually do it. Yeah, just hear people say right it down
We'll figure it. Hey, it's 2 15 p.m. For real
And then we all showed up as the white ranger
Wused I am located in the white gallery
Yeah
Look at the end when you said the South for rise again somebody in the crowd said I know that's right
We we are from Alabama that makes sense and the clan started about an hour and a half away
Yeah, but uh
That I like that joke man. I think that was a joke. I told the first time we ever met at shenanigans
I think I went up there and said that you know as shenanigans a little risky saying that kind of shit
But they but they laugh they laugh that was a joke that got me. I was all this guy's good. Yeah, like
The white power Rangers. Oh my god. That is just send me every time I hear yeah, and especially coming from you looking
Yeah, oh, yeah, so being like a nice guy on stage and shit like that the longer version of that joke
I talked about my gram like growing up my grandparents were religious and they would
They didn't like the idea Halloween
So I used to have to beg them and take me trick-or-treating and shit
And that's true and my grandma dressed me up as George Bush for Halloween one year the year Obama got elected
That's true. That's a hundred percent true
And then you know I talked about she sent me to school dressed up as a Native American chief for career day
Like that's a job you can just have
See that that also unfortunately is true and I have photographic evidence for that one
So and then I talked about like oh, yeah, I got older and me and my friends wanted to a group costume the white power
Rangers, but it was accident or whatever that that's not even that's not even true at all
I was just high one day and I was like power Rangers like I was I heard the Power Rangers to my nephew was watching it
And I was like white power
Rangers I was like hmm. I can do something with that
That could become a whole skit. Yeah, that could be a skit white power
I need to expand more on that joke, you know, but essentially what I'm saying is if you think about white power enough
You can be a comedian, you know
Keeps getting bigger
Aren't you glad you're not okay, we're gonna take it in that wasn't me that was not me I
Just heavily instigated it
Is your penis limp like a gelatinous Lincoln log
Like a melted popsicle like you stuffed a jellyfish and a baby sock the fuck you saying that shit
Did your sex drive disappear like Malaysia flight 17? Yeah, what the hell?
Do you go soft when trying to put on a condom? Okay, everybody does that then you need blue chew
When you start to go limp, it hurts your partner's feelings. It's basically emotional terrorism
I just don't think that's what that is. Think of your penis like the Mar Hamlin
One day it went down and wouldn't come back up, but it can with medical assistance
That's fucking crazy after all having a dick is like having a child
What's the point of having it if you can't beat it?
I am too with these chewable tablets your dick will be harder than David Goggins during Hell Week
Pretty fucking hard. They might make you sweat. They might make you sweat profusely, but
That's just natural lubrication
That's just nasty your veins are gonna feel like fire hoses your heartbeat. It's gonna rattle your rib cage
That just does not sound pleasant in the slightest
Blue chew for anybody fat people black people Asian people whoever wants it is for you
And I know you sitting down watching me like you know my dick's it's up there. It's not always gonna be hard think about it
Blue chew you want to be like Pikachu be electrifying in that motherfucking bin
Get some blue chew
What do you call a wolf that gets lost in the woods?
A werewolf
He doesn't know where he is he is a werewolf
Okay, let's say you was so we get we get right we get it
I'm not doing any magic up here
So let's say you had you when you were living with your grandma
And you know you you're living with your grandma and your grandma says hey piece of shit get the fuck out of my house
What would you do that you would effectively be homeless at this point in time?
So what would you do you would have to get a house right and you know houses are expensive
So what you would do is you would go to like a quicken loans bank
I don't know you go to an establishment that sells home loans and when you get there
You get into a home loan place and to your surprise the agent that's sitting behind the desk is a wolf
What would you call that wolf that was selling home loans you would call him a loan wolf
Ah yeah you would we get it though we get it we all understand wolves everybody
Let's talk about porn I like porn
My favorite thing about porn is the categories we got some porn categories
We got brontosaurus butt licking porn
We got you know we got interracial porn we got step sibling porn
All these different that's weird
I ain't talking about me don't take King Cham in here everybody's got their own thing
My thing is my thing is no my thing is BBW porn you know what BBW porn is?
BBW porn big bad wolf porn
Ahhhh
What's going on guys today we've got a guest our first ever guest on the inaugural episode
I'm really excited about this one this was a guy who was very welcoming to me when I started off on the open mic comedy scene here in Huntsville
He's one half of Black Panther Hidden Dragon I'll let you guess which half
A guy whose credits consist of one co-host of the What a Joke open mic on Sunday nights at the boxcar in Madison
Also part of the Mad Comedy open mic at Mad Maltz every fourth Thursday of the month
A guy who really cannot be summed up in any amount of words a guy with a very unique style Jalen Brown
Thank you KJ I appreciate that shit thank y'all
Hell yeah man
Thanks for having me
Hell yeah thanks for being here man
Cool um
Oh my bro
Money spread
I hope this comedy niggas be broke bro I gotta um I gotta subvert that expectation off rep
Oh my gosh he's defying the stereo tonight bro
Yeah I just had to do that was my one bit I just wanted to bit it up in the beginning guys
I love that
I hope this comedy niggas be broke bro
Not this guy
That's Jirari right there
Bop
Wapow
Damn man
Yeah Jalen like JJ was saying for both of us all of us you guys have these mics and you let us just go up there
And let us just grow always give us good advice and I appreciate you for that
For sure
Oh yeah especially you because it's not everybody you know everybody's doing comedy for whatever reason they're doing it for
But as soon as I talk to Jalen the first time I'll never forget the first time I saw you perform was March of this year
At the Stand Up Live open mic
Sounds about right
You got up there and you didn't say anything you reached into your pocket and pulled out a lemon like a lemon wedge
And ate it and went mmm fuzzy
And that was how you opened it
And then right after that you just held a finger gun up and the audience was like pew pew pew
I was like what the hell is going on but everybody was laughing I'm like this dude doesn't sound like anybody else that went up
And it was like 40 comics that went up that night and I remembered you and then when I started doing them myself you know
You were very welcoming you know obviously you're very funny but there's a part of you that was very accepting
Very welcoming you know giving me advice and shit and I always appreciated that
Thank you JJ I can speak on both of that
What I did at Stand Up Live I did that because it's not that I don't respect Stand Up Live
But it's just like as a comedian everybody is looking up at the Stand Up Live mic like this is my moment
And so it's like if everybody's going up like that like I don't give a fuck like I don't care I'm gonna do what I feel is funny
And it's gonna be something that like you're not gonna you don't expect to see like that's easy to do like it for me that's easy to do
And then another thing on top of that like this is a clown college right
Yeah
You're our professor
I went to clown college actually in real life and you know a big part of comedy from what I learned there was like ensemble
So when I look at it like in terms of like the Huntsville scene it's like we're only as strong as our weakest link
So like I don't mind being accepted like we're just us being funny like me being funny helps other people be funny
And I like I want us to be where like the next Austin or wherever like Huntsville you have the talent
That's where I'm coming from I'm just like let's be funny y'all that's all it means to me
We were talking about that in the opening segment do you have the talent here I mean there's some funny I don't care where you're from
What you like there's some funny people here some extremely funny people here
And you said you you actually went to clown college where did you go to college for and what did you go for
Oh yeah I went to college in Chicago it was in Chicago it was a Columbia College Chicago that's what it's called
I guess you know just something light yeah something light bruh not a big deal
That's been crazy
You should have guessed from the fucking money spread you opened up with you know
Yeah nah it's some light bro
We got an Ivy League man at the table
I don't think well no it's two different Colombias it's not the same that's y'all are talking about the good Colombians
Me and Dom don't fucking know you could have fooled us
Everybody in the room thought you were talking about
We don't know
I went to here in Washington out there too but that's the city college
You're doing another flex
That's not a flex out here in Washington
We don't know
I went to a whole bunch of colleges out there but I went to Columbia College like that was the main idea
And my major out there was comedy writing and performance
That's a major they offer that's dope as hell UAH could never
I mean they had like I remember one of the teachers that we had that was teaching us comedy theory
It was like she used to date Stephen Colbert or something like that
And that was her main credit
That was what people were saying
And LeBara if anybody wants to lick her up like she's real cool
She taught me like a whole bunch of stuff
Oh yeah
So you think you learned a lot from going there?
Oh yeah I can say this
I definitely learned like set up punch line the structure of jokes
Like the concepts that people find what makes people laugh
Like I found that stuff out
And that's cool if you're interested in that kind of thing
But if you want to do comedy if you want to become a comedian you don't have to go to college for it
College is completely unnecessary
It's just that experience
I mean that's how I look at college in general
Like college is just an experience and it's just so happened that I put comedy over mine
It could have been accounting or whatever
I feel like I still would have got the same experiences had I you know
I guess it's just mindset for me
It just boils down to mindset whatever you're doing
But yeah you don't need comedy college to do comedy
But with that being said your experience your time in Chicago
Do you view that as something that benefited your comedy career?
Oh for sure yeah definitely
Like I wouldn't change it for the world
Like sometimes I wish I could go back
But no like there's obviously like redeeming things here
Like one thing I can say about Huntsville
It's one of the like most supportive scenes
Like you were saying earlier like we definitely have talent here
It's like underrated Huntsville is underrated for sure
I feel like people just don't know about the comedy scene
That's one of the goals of this podcast
Even people in Huntsville don't know
I had no idea
I've lived here my whole life I had no idea
Until I started doing it
Yeah but we got that shit
That Heath
We talked about it in our section
And he said the best bucket pool ever
No they fuck with Heath bro that's just crazy
They fuck with Heath
He was just down here
He was just here doing mics
Doing your mics
Like two months ago
Everything changed so fast
And of course like fuck yeah go Heath dude
Shout out Heath Quarters
And Heath has the jokes
Exactly like Heath's one of them
You got you, Alex
Like he's so dynamic and so different than everybody else you're gonna see
Exactly
And you got Syfy who will just have you on the floor the whole time
Ty Funny
C.R.I.C.E
Moses, damn Price
They're all so funny
And they're all names who would be something if they had like the limelight on
The exposure
If they had the exposure
The talent is undeniable I feel like
It's really just that exposure aspect
Which is why we're trying to have people on
Give people a platform build up the scene
You know obviously we're the host or whatever
But we're just
It's a community thing we are not shit
We are not shit
Thank ya'll for doing this and I can say like the way it breaks down
I hear a little before ya'll but not much before ya'll
Okay
And so like the way that
I guess the upperclassmen have been saying
Not just saying that
But it's like ya'll were like a new class of people coming into the
The comedy scene
Comedy scene
And so it's like as far as like ya'll two are going to hard is from what I can see
Like ya'll got the podcast right now
Like you be saying retard and shit
Like you not, ya'll ain't afraid
This shit is pretty cool
You be saying retard, you be saying midget
You be going straight in and say midget
And you know what it didn't even make sense
No no trust me I don't give a fuck
You don't think what you want about me god damn it
No it's buttoned your head
But like when I said that on Monday
I was like what'd you say you said
What are those tall people
What are those tall adults next to the other children
That was like the midgets Charlie
The midgets Charlie
No Mikey
Which is not a British name
Yeah it didn't make sense at all
We were trying to improv
We were doing an 1800
It's like 19th century fucking British orphans go to the mall for the first time
The hardest improv scene of all time and my first one too
That's why I'm saying
That's why you can't be mad at you if not that anybody was
It's like don't make him improv
Don't make him say anything he wants to
But before that I was thrown off the whole fucking scene
Because Dom hit me with one of the funniest fucking roasts ever
He was like JJ look like a hipster slave owner
Like the only make him pick espresso beans
And the whole fucking crowd was laughing
I was like what the fuck that was the funniest thing I've ever heard
Look Jaylen
They said it was supposed to be a nice roast
So I was like well I don't know how to do this
There's no nice part about that
I'm just gonna say he's a slave owner
But a good one that makes you pick a less you know harmful
And coffee is a very labor intensive crop Dom
That's fucked up man
I appreciate you for that
How you think you get energy dude
There's no Starbucks without me man
That's true
If JJ was my slave
Nah we in there
First of all we be growing weed let's be honest
We're not growing them fucking espresso beans right
No you can tell I'm heard man
Hemp oil and shit
I'm fresh man I'm the chillest slave owner of all time
But I also think I really believe this
The more fucked up shit you say
That in my experience with people
They have been the better people
You know what I'm saying
The people who try to be like oh
You have to everything has to be just like this
They're hiding so much shit
They feel terrible because they're trying to
That they want to get mad about something you know what I mean
And they want to project their things
Everybody has things said about them
No matter what you are no matter what color
What you look like you're short you're tall
You're fat you're skinny everybody has something that's said about them
You can't just be like oh you can't say that because
My uncle got shot in the ass who gives a fuck
You know what I'm saying
That's not what this is about
But yeah I don't subscribe to that
We're comedians we're up here challenging that
If we didn't do that y'all would look at us crazy
We're supposed to push the envelope
And we're trying to make it funny
Exactly but I don't want to get off the high
Yeah yeah
We're better than you
So you like rap Jalen right?
Oh of course man
Okay so I'm going to read you a lyric from an artist
And I want you to tell me who it is try to guess who it is
We got games y'all different
We got pre-planned activities and shit
Alright so a great virtue of mine
Would probably be my patience
Oh shit that's Eastley man
That's Eastley that's your boy
That's me
Hell yeah man
I went and listened to all your songs last night
Hey that's crazy
I went and listened to every single one on Soundcloud
Some of them are Torch Wars though right?
No all of them if you listen to everything on Soundcloud all of those are mine
Hell yeah man
I like the beat the elves say thank you
Oh elves say thank you damn you went deep
He's turning into Nardwark
If you go to Jalen Brown he's on Instagram we're going to put his handle and all that stuff on there
We're going to put his address on there
I'm telling you well he has on his Instagram he has a couple raps on the explore page
Your page
On your page
Okay and also I'm new to Instagram and all this shit
Dom's old as fuck
I'm old and I don't like it
He could run for president
Yeah but I was on there so I might get some of these terms wrong
But yeah I went there I saw that beat the elves say thank you and I was like I like this damn
I'm just sitting rocking to that bad boy
Appreciate it Dom that's a deep cut for sure
So how long you been rapping?
I want to say since like the middle of the pandemic maybe
Like late 2018 early 2019
Got you
Now is that just like a artistry thing?
Like you want to be a well rounded artist or is it just your personal interest and it just so happens to be art?
Oh yeah personal interest for sure
I had like a catalyst coming back from Chicago when I had so I didn't graduate from the comedy college
But when I left and came back I like this girl who made music it was a liberal arts college
She was in like the music side of things but like she kept we kept in touch
And then like she kind of inspired me to start making music
But the reason why she inspired me why I hadn't done it before that was because like my family
Like my dad's side of the family my sister and my dad and my grandma on his side
They like all of them sing all of them sing grew up in the church my dad like plays guitar and bass my
Granddad he has a gospel group called Greg Brown and the Trumpeters
It's just like yeah they sing a gospel quartet so it's like my family has big musical background
I always felt like the black sheep so it was like this thing that I kind of suppressed
Then that girl brought it out of me and then that's when I was just like okay let me just get all this stuff that I have in
Because I look at it is like just an expressive way just a way to express myself and I fuck with that in any capacity
Being able to express myself articulate what I have in my mind music is just another way to do that
Exactly yeah oh yeah dude
And I'm telling you you're good and whenever I was thinking about people who you remind me of
And I couldn't I couldn't think of anybody like comedy wise I found one but uh Childish Gambino
Because you can do it all son of a bitch you probably can act too can't you
That's what I was doing before
You can do it
Damn dude
Yeah no I mean that was a part of the school
You had a Renaissance man in your head
I'm telling you
Okay I think I had a level
No but you remind me of a Richard Aody
Iode
You know what I'm talking about
The American version of him
The watch
My mom was actually an extra in that movie
That's crazy
When they're in the football game
When they're in the football stadium you can see my mom in the back
She got her phone case signed by Ben Stiller that day
Damn
She wiped off now she didn't have a case anymore but she showed me yeah
That was a pretty funny movie too
It was a funny movie
You know they had to change it because of the Trayvon Martin
Yeah
It was called the Neighborhood Watch
Damn
And then Zimmerman's
Yeah right around that time
So your whole family background is just all in the arts
Acting and music
Pretty much
All that kind of stuff
I know you said at first you didn't want to pursue music
Because maybe you felt like it was big shoes to fill
Based on your family history
Something like that
So where does the comedy come from
What does comedy mean to you in relation to all these other things
Is that your separate thing that you do
You see that as your independent, your independent artistry
Or is that, where did that come from?
Yeah I couldn't tell you where it came from JJ
But it's definitely been here the whole time
Hell yeah
It's been a passion of mine
I can say the day I realized I wanted to do something with comedy
Or like the day comedy as a thing clicked for me
Was in second grade
It was my birthday and we were learning about symmetry
The teacher had passed out these outlines of shapes
I had got an outline of a heart
Just the outline of a heart
I was supposed to be folding it to see where it was symmetrical
So I folded it, was it hot dog? Hot dog style?
Yeah long ways
I held it up to my face and it looked like a mustache and a beard
Exactly right
Hilarious
It's a good bit when you're in second grade
I showed it to the class and everybody died
Everybody died and I was like yeah
This is what I'm supposed to be doing
I got turned on, I was like yeah I'm in it now
You heard it here first man, Jalen Brown got turned on in the second grade
For sure
Hell yeah man
In front of the whole class
That's when you knew he was a comedian
Hell yeah
I was living with my granddad and grandma and mom when I was real young
He would have the Chappelle show on
My granddad was a warden when I was living in California with him
This is the time I'm talking about
Prison warden
He was a prison warden and he would do comedy nights up there
He would tell jokes to the prisoners
His thing is like you gotta make them laugh
That's what he would be telling to me
He would say you would just tell them stories about me and my sister
I'm sure my granddad has a whole bunch of influence on me about why I've stuck with it this long
It's just been a passion
It's been a real big passion of mine
It's like every time I've tested it
I've gotten good results
Every time I've tested my funniness I've come out funny
It's like I gotta keep on doing this
Then it turned out I can't do math
I'm really good at this thing
Narrowing it down
Process of elimination
It stuck around this long
Damn
Alright
Would you rather be reincarnated as a sea creature?
Sea creature?
Or an airborne creature?
I'm going in the sea Dom
I gotta go into the sea
Octopus
Octopus, cuttlefish
Damn
Any of those, one of those things
Is there any reasoning?
Octopus or cuttlefish?
I'm going cuttlefish because have you ever seen a cuttlefish?
What's one of the cuttlefish?
Jamie pull that up
A cuttlefish is like a fat squid
Oh yeah I know what you're talking about
It can change colors a little bit more
It's like a mix between a squid and an octopus almost
But not exactly, I'm not a scientist
He's a marine biologist
I'm a comedian
I'm going cuttlefish because I like the colors
If I could do that as a human that's what I would be doing
Be pretty sick
Mesmerizing people
That's what you do on stage
You're a very cuttlefish ass going on stage
That's what I'm trying to go for
People are like what the fuck is that?
And then it surprises you and you're like oh that's cool
I'll fuck with it, I'll fuck with the cuttlefish
Like a squid or something
It's like something I've seen before but I haven't
For sure
Appreciate that
So when was the moment?
I know you said second grade
When you realized this funny shit
Maybe this is something
And then as you get older you're like
Okay yeah I do want to lead into this
When did you start calling yourself a comedian?
Or really thinking of yourself as a comedian?
Yeah not until I started doing it
And even when I started doing it
I still didn't really feel like a comedian
Now I can say I do feel like one
That's a good ass question
Because I have struggled with it
The thing that I tried to figure out first was
Am I funny or not?
And that took me a little while
I would ask myself the question
I would be like yeah I'm funny
But then something would challenge me
And then I would have to go back to the drawing board
But once I got that down
I didn't start feeling like I was a comedian until I came here
So that's got to be like 2021
Okay so you did stand up in different locations
Tell us which ones and what you like and dislike about them
I started out in Chicago
And I did my first ever stand up set at Second City
It was a class going on up there
And I went there and I told a whole bunch of jokes
About being in Chicago for the first time
And it got that itch out of the way that first
Like oh I did it
And I didn't bomb or anything
But before that I had been doing improv
Which is a whole different thing
But has definitely influenced my stand up comedy
But improv is crazy
But first stand up set at Second City
After I get kicked out of Columbia
I get evicted out of Columbia
I go to Atlanta
And then I start doing this
I don't want to do them like that
His name is Jacob Marmon
He's come to the scene a few times
Should we say it like it was the bleep it?
Yeah no no
I thought about some of his personal
His personal interests
I didn't want to put him on blast like that
But Jacob Marmon, very funny guy
He got me into comedy out in Atlanta
He was like yeah you got to start doing this
You got to start coming out here
Because after I got kicked out of Columbia
I was chasing my dream
I became a man out in Chicago
I was stepping out on faith
Taking a leap of faith
And doing my comedy stuff
But then as soon as they were like
You don't have enough money to be here
I was like damn
I was looking at the moon late at night
Waiting for somebody to rob me
In the streets of Chicago
I just felt so down
After that I went to Atlanta
To live back with my parents
That's when I met Jacob
He was like no man you need to get out here
And start doing this
You can't stop doing comedy
So I started doing comedy out there
Then I moved here
Really Atlanta, Chicago and Huntsville
That's about it
That's pretty impressive
That's very impressive
Those are huge markets
Atlanta and Chicago
Huntsville will be
For sure
First time on stage at Second City
That's a legendary
I may have said it like that
It was like a room
It still counts
It's like you went up at the comedy store
It's still the comedy store
You went up at Second City
I thought I was hot shit
Because the first open mic I did was
Stand Up Live in Huntsville
Then Jalen went up at Second City for the first time
Then fucking Dom
His first time ever doing stand up
Killed Tony
I was the only one who did bad
But the guts
The guts is crazy
That's insane
Getting up there
Getting up there is really
Half
75% of the battle
Just being up there
The whole time
Being funny
I don't know
I feel like there's humor
And everything
I'm not going to say that anybody can be funny
But there are moments that
Anybody can take advantage of that will be funny
Exactly
Dropping knowledge on this
You just got to be able to see the moments
And anybody can do that
I like that
Alright
What's the most interesting dream you've ever had?
The most interesting dream
Do you have a lot of dreams?
Do you frequently dream?
I know he does because I listen to him
I be having interesting dreams bro
He might be a prophet
I be feeling that way
I be feeling like I used to be in town
I used to be in town
I be feeling like I used to be in Tibet
As a monk
I feel that way
A reincarnation type shit
Let me feel like one of these dreams
Ramana Harshi
If I'm reincarnated
Who do I feel like I'm reincarnated as?
Ramana Harshi
Is that a Tibetan monk?
Hell yeah
He was peaceful or he fought people?
Peaceful
Shout out Tibet
Shout out orange
Make that your primary guard
That's a bold move
And it paid off obviously
I got to say one of my strangest dreams
Well dreams is a big question for me
There's a lot that happens to me in the dream room
I'll say it
Okay
I'll narrow it down
I'd say
A dream that
Was blessed for you then
You were like
That was what I would want
When I woke up
That would be perfect
No matter how far out it is
I got you
It was semi-lucid
I didn't realize
It was a dream
But
I realized that was me
I didn't realize it was a dream but I realized that was me
And I could run
In slow motion
And I was in
I was in a space
That was a mixture of
Huntsville
Over by the Speakeasy
Campus 805 over in that area
And Chicago
I was on the streets of Chicago but it was familiar buildings
That looked like the
Speakeasy over there
I was doing parkour and I had full control
Over my body
And I could just feel my body
And I woke up and I was like damn
I was running in slow motion
Because it was so easy in the dream
I could feel my body and I tried to do it
It just didn't translate the stuff I was doing in the dream
That's probably one
Where it was like
And that was just because I had been trying to get into a lucid dream state
Like I had been trying to get there
But hell yeah guys I got a whole bunch of dreams
I had a reoccurring one
About like some cats
There was this cat that could talk to me
And damn the sleep paralysis stuff
The sleep paralysis stuff
I was in Chicago
I was sleeping down in my dorm
And I was the only one with a roommate
But my roommate was gone
And so I woke up
Or whatever but I couldn't move
I'm not sure if y'all know how sleep paralysis works
But I guess I woke up
I'm aware of my surroundings I don't know if it's necessarily a dream
Or whatever but it's like
I heard something in my ear
Go it's a sensation
And then
I woke up out of that
Or I could move again
Like that shit is crazy sleep paralysis is crazy
My mom tells me that
When I was in her stomach
As a baby as an infant
She was living in Virginia
And my dad
It was late at night
And she was sleeping in the living room
In the living room she was sleeping on the couch
And the couch had a mirror
It was up against a mirror wall
And then across from her was a window
And so she was having
A bout of sleep paralysis
This night
And when she woke up or came to
In the room she couldn't move
But she felt me going like crazy
In her stomach and then she said
She heard a like
Or like saw a shadowy figure
Coming from the window cause it was open
She left the window open when she like
Laid down with me she had a long day or something
Is how she described it she just laid down
With the window up she saw a shadowy
Figure come in the room and then I started
Going crazy in her stomach trying to get out
Or whatever and she says he started
Saying the Lord's Prayer
And then the thing went away
That's crazy
Dream stuff is crazy it's crazy that you ask me about dreams
I got a whole bunch that would probably
Change the tone of the
Of the interview
I got a whole bunch of them man
Well the tone is changing
The tone changed
When the demon came in and said the Lord's Prayer
See we're laughing dude there's humor in everything
Jalen Brown
Dropping gems and dreams
And whatever that was
Experiences
They after me bro
Damn dude you think you got like a bounty
On your head in like the spiritual realm
I think they trying to get me bro I'm too peaceful
Dude they want to fuck up your
Nirvana
They can try
They can try hit them with a money spread
You know I got it bro
That reflects all the bad energy
This is one I wanted to ask you though
What's your waffle house order
My waffle house order
Bro I'm getting
This might be basic I'm getting the all star
All star special bro
Can't go wrong bro with the
I gotta get the waffle too
What meat are you getting?
The sausage rounds
How do you like your eggs?
I like my eggs I'm getting them scrambled with a little cheese
Come on
Hell yeah dude
You get the hash browns
Smothered
Smothered is the cheese right?
Smothered is the cheese
Smothered and chopped
What's the drink though?
I'll usually go lemonade
I might go water
I don't drink coffee or anything like that
I go lemonade or water that's what I feel
See I fuck myself over sometimes
Cause I'll order a choccy milk
I'll drink some chocolate milk and then
It's just too heavy
And I'm usually drunk if I'm a waffle house
So I start down spiraling
Like so many carbs
And I hate myself and everything sucks
But it was only $7 so
At least there's that
I'll get the all-star special
Or I'll get that sandwich
That they got
Not the burger
I'm forgetting it
Is it like a melt?
The bacon egg and cheese or the sausage egg and cheese?
Hell yeah dude
Dom what's your waffle house order?
I do the same but instead of
I get grits with cheese instead of hash browns
And then bacon instead of sausage
I'd probably take the bacon
I'm a sausage links guy
Sausage links guy
I'm a links guy
Sausage and jelly biscuit though
Sausage patty, throw some grape
Jelly on there, eat that by itself
I live off that for a week
That's what I wanted to ask you
Do you get heckled a lot?
Do I get heckled a lot?
And when you have how did you deal with it?
Nice, mean
So that's the thing, in most cases
I can handle a heckler
It's like
With me, I'm looking for
Moments that I haven't
Planned for
That's part of the improv stuff
I look at everything as a gift
Any moment that is up there as a chance
For me to flip it and turn it into a funny thing
So I can deal with most
Hecklers
In terms of me getting heckled
When I was in Atlanta
It happened
The most
But also that was when I
Earlier, I didn't have a
Control over the audience
How I do now, not to say that I do
It definitely isn't where it's at now
Yeah, like getting heckled
I can handle it, but I don't get heckled
So much anymore, but when I first started out
I definitely got heckled a little bit
And it was mostly black rooms too, and I hate to say it like that
But that's just the facts
But it's also
I was different, I was coming in there with very high
Concept stuff, like I was coming into
The nightclub with juggling balls
So I was like, I'm not mad at them for heckling
Like I get it, but it's like
I am like
You are who you are
That's why I love you, you don't care who's in the audience
You're gonna be you
Alright, Jalen, we want to say
Thanks for coming, great interview
I mean we got some good stuff here
Some gems in there
Definitely, and you're a gem of a guy
I just want to tell you that
And anything you want to promote
Right there in that camera
Hey y'all, yeah, you know I be doing comedy
I be doing this
I got some shows
Next week, I got a show on
The 16th, got one on the 17th
I got one on the 18th
Also got one on the 10th
One of the 10th is gonna be in Florence
It's an improv comedy thing with Bobby
Sutton and Joyce
Lyles
The thing on the 16th
Is
Something
The thing on the 17th is at OTBX
And then the thing on the 18th
Is a don't tell, so I can't really say
Too much about it, but be on the lookout
I'll post something about it
And that's really all I got going on right now
Just look out for me next week, I'll be posting about it
On my Instagram, which is
Jalen B
We know, Jalen underscore
B 18
Alright
Hell yeah
That's episode one, history right here baby
Inaugural episode, pilot episode
Thanks for having me
Alright guys, we'll see you later