This week on clown college
I think I'd be Japanese dude because they kind of they're kind of like the white Asian
I've heard this comparison before the white Asian they practiced imperialism and shit
They did some brutal things like in Nanking some real fucked up shit if you're gonna want me how many people did he kill?
Nanking is a place
That's a place
Yeah, the city in China, okay
And we need to talk about something more serious
If sci-fi is not on a show he needs to stay his ass out of the gray room exactly
exactly
Thank you for saying this. I mean what I was just looking I was like, oh we get we get all this
Who put him on the board?
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
I saw some people get fucked up on those things out while you were performing
I'm pretty sure two people died while you were performing back there man two cars flipping this. Tom's killing dude. Yeah, you killed literally. That's what I do
That's like Panama City Beach every car looks like that on like the main road by the mall dude. It's real bad
It's a lot of like
17 year old rednecks driving that kind of shit
I'll never forget I saw a truck with like a galaxy wrap on it
You know what I mean? It looked like space
Yeah, and me and my friend were walking and we were wearing matching shirts and the dude yelled the F slur out of out of his
At us and I was like dude. He was right. Dang. Okay black people do that all the time
No, they don't really really and that's different. How is that different? Not two friends wearing the same shirt?
Okay, we're on a beach trip black people do that too. They were
Sure trip shirts, dude. So are you mad because it's cultural? No, I have yeah, I go to I'm part
I'm the Johnson family reunion. God damn it. I got four shirts in there right now. All right
Well, it was me and the other dude was Mexican. That's even worse. Okay
You know, I felt
What is this world coming to me pick one
I said in fourth grade. I felt looking to that too. It's okay man, like me and my friend today
What would you want to be when you grow up saying, you know?
I've of course picked Russell in if you can't tell and we pulled up his tag team partners and
We did the macho man, you know where he had the cut string
Yeah, and I thought that was cool cuz at first I was cutting it like the undertaker
But then I said now we do the stripes and I pulled up in there and these are all kids saying man
That's gay shit, bro. And I was like, come on anything gay look at him and they like yeah, but you not him you gay
F-word was from it was horrible. What age was this? I was like
11 or 12. Okay. Yeah, that is cool though. They have the
Macho man, Randy Savage on things. Yeah, and you said this was career day
Yeah, they were like we want to be when you grow up and we were like we want tag team partners. I
Can't even make fun of them dude my grandma when I was in the first grade for career day
Dressed me up as a Native American chief. I straight up look like
Red man to like for real the feather headdress toy bow and arrow. I'm in like a tan poncho and shit
It was not good
That's so fucking crazy. Yeah, I'm just glad like it wasn't a red face situation. There was no makeup involved
You know good, but I love that she just thought you could just have that career like being a Native American is an occupation
Chief anybody can do it. You just buy a casino. Yeah
Oh shit, so welcome back welcome back clown college episode 12. I thought it was episode 13
Said it wrong. I got the mispronounced 12 is 13
Well, we're back
So
What's going on
Um
Well, the mics are back now that the ice storm is over. Oh, yeah
It was I got to do the the new comedy showcase at stand-up live shout out. Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, that was shout out to Charlie Jake Ty Daniel
The headliner. Yeah, but you guys fucking murder. Oh, yeah
That brand it was amazing. Uh-huh. They did a yeah Scott open and then you all did eight minutes
Yep, eight minutes. I just you know, it's not light work. No, you know I'm saying came and they all brought the fire
Had that crowd roaring. Yeah, it was fun, man. It was fun. The green room was cool seeing all the signatures
So Burke Reicher Chris Tucker, you know the best comedian of all time Matt right? Yeah
Everybody's ago
Crazy so he is on there
So that was cool. There was free sugar-free Red Bull
So I took advantage of that put a couple in my pocket when I was walking out
Yeah, I might not make you're a dude. Yeah, you earned it. Yeah. Oh
You'll be back. You'll be back in black. Hell. Yeah, I don't know about the black part
Hey, dude as soon as they make trans racial thing bro, I'm switching teams
Might not be black. I'm uh
Yeah, we're using maybe okay. I think so do
Why do you make that face no wrong with this saying Asian you're gonna have to take can't go straight from
White to black. That's fine
I'm just out of all the all races. So you're saying but you have to take everything comes with it. Yeah, you'll be smaller
Yeah, no, there's some big and you'll be really you'll probably be really smart
I mean which it when you when you say Asian we're all talking about Chinese
No, Japanese and Korean, right? I'd rather I think I'd be Japanese dude because they kind of they're kind of like the white Asian
I've heard this comparison before the white Asian they practiced imperialism and shit. They did some brutal things like a Nanking
Some real fucked up shit if you gonna want me how many people did he kill?
Nanking is a place
That's a place. Yeah, the city in China. Okay
Hey, we learn something new every day
I'm a man king brother of Martin Luther King. I'm the king
You know him British Reverend
Can I know Martin Luther? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's a guy you ever listen to his speeches
Okay, which one?
Which one? No, I would I have a dream one. Yeah. Yeah, it's been ten years. Yeah
Yeah, I heard it was a good speaker. He loved white woman, too
He did. I don't know. I didn't know I was like that. I know he was cheating on his wife, though
Yeah, well, yeah, you have to release if you know, they beat the shit out of you every day. Yeah
Yeah, I mean, I'm you can't just put that all on his poor. I mean, that's just another plus. I like him more
He's got personality fuck. We talked about
It is a
Black history month. Yes, it is. Yeah, it is a little plot right? Oh, yeah
It's the first episode of Black History Month. Yes, it is. Yep. So for the month of February
I will be replaced by Typhoon II and take my spot guys
I
Got kicked off homegrown, too. It's fine. I'm not pissed about it
Would you say affirmative action? Yeah, it's a it's affirmative action, dude. I thought they ended it
I thought that was unconstitutional
Yeah, it was it's been a fun week
Yeah, like you said we get to go back this next week stack full of mics. Yeah. Yeah, besides them what today? Oh
We're shooting this out of order too. I don't know if you can tell by my pimp
Purple jacket, but okay. What what is this collar situation?
That's going on. Oh, it's got like a weird like a detective
So it's like pops out and then you can zip it
Yeah, then go out see how but it's like it's still like up even when it's on
Look like some lips
Little push lips. I try to fuck it. But you whatever it looks like the bottom of a Thai vagina
You know, it's like a muppet. It's not high vagina. Yeah
Is that a thing?
Type that like some Asian women have purple vaginas. I never heard I never heard that really no
I mean, it might be I'm alone. No, not dude. Google it. All right, let's see what like I'm thinking like you
Elmer's glue purple
Y'all want to see what?
Elmer's glue the stick the purple one. Okay. I guess I get it. Yeah, it's kind of like this purple, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah grimace ask purple, dude
I'm a quick right here. All right, so let's see Elmer's glue purple
Or do you want to see the tie pussy? Yeah
Okay, we can show you that was already in the history
Let's go to his bookmarks. Okay
Shit the color purple
Like history month, yeah
Movie to harpo to beat me. Did you watch the new one? No, I gotta watch that. No, the first one's a hard watch
Huh? I said I gotta watch that color purple original Oprah. I need to Danny Glover
Danny Glover, yeah, that's good. He used to get a mixed up with Donald
I thought they I thought they were father and son me too. I thought that was his dad. Yeah
Danny Glover
Yeah, you got Danny and Donald. Yeah when Donald Glover came out when we first came out you're like clearly that's
That's Danny Glover's the double deal. Yes, son. I'm gonna be honest. I thought Danny Glover was white
What that's who I am in the poster. Oh, yeah
Yeah, I was thinking of somebody else man
I
Was thinking of like a white dude with a mullet
Are you thinking he was Mel Gibson? No, I thought it was a different guy
Huh
Oh Danny I hope you are good
Love you Brandon don't ever change. So what's going on? What's new with you?
I've been doing open mics and then seeing people kill of course, you know stand up live
Shout out
Hit him hit him with the plot
That is and yeah doing good shit. I mean I realized I could hold fucking guinea pigs now, too
I took another step up. Where did you find where'd you encounter a guinea pig?
My sister she put her guinea pig on me randomly. I was like awesome
She want to hold cats now and they could hold this and I did hold it. You pet it. Yeah, I petted it
Yeah, and then after that as a dude waiting for me on the corner with big-ass blood
He's like you want some of this shit? No, I'm like
No, man, I'm at work right now. I can't can't fucking do that shit and he was like just hook me up. I
Don't go over 60. What the fuck
What yeah, and then it has nothing to do with the jerk or whatever baby pig. I was just saying about my week
Okay, yeah, I have a kid to you what it was he talking about there
Oh, he just talked about this big roasted blunt. He's like you want some of this
Good uh-huh pass self-control. Good job
Yeah, I'm busy right now and it might have had some in it. Yeah, I don't know what the hell going on
It's just the best stuff you'll get man
Then I'd be a whole different man. It's the best crack in northern Alabama. Yeah, fuck crack
I don't want I don't want to accidentally do some meth man. We already got one person accidentally did
For joke purposes yes
No, I mean you're right. Well, I don't know if it was meth or bath salts
It could have been either. Yeah, it could have been either. You know, take your pick
Yeah, when you're that far like getting fucked up. It doesn't matter me
Yeah, cuz you just when you just want a little cocaine, but that was years ago 10 10 some plus years ago
That's fine. Well, that's cool, man
But when you want to just do a blast, you know, you don't want to be up for you know, 16 hours
Yeah, I'll for one line
So I don't know what it was but it was it was something but I feel like I feel like crack could probably teach you
Things, you know, but crack is like you got to do it too much and then you're smoking that much of that harsh shit
You're gonna smoke crack and then you're gonna be want to get high in the next 20 minutes
Okay, so if you're addicted to crack, how do you die?
Does the crack kill you or is it just like the side effects not eating or no?
Joomba I think he died of like heart stuff and oh you'd be hard. Yeah heart related and things like that
Yeah, it's gonna be anything that pumps your heart that fast and get you going like that
Yeah, crack has do they live it's not like they die young, you know, it's not that like they die at 50
They're here for a good time
65 year old cracker. Yeah, that's a good life on
You can make it to 65. You can definitely make it 65
Do you think there's people in like high-level white-collar jobs in corporate America that like?
recreationally smoke crack without a doubt
But like what do you think is who's like the most famous or like who makes the most?
Is there a level where you have to give up the crack to get farther?
Well with crack once you do it, it doesn't matter how rich or whatever you are. You want crack. Yeah, I mean
Like heroin you want you want to do heroin. It doesn't matter how
You just act erratic on crack sometimes
Oh, sometimes you're really happy
Yeah, my boy's dad was uh
He dibbled and dabbled. I don't know if it was cracker if he just did coke
But yeah, you'd always know when we go over there and be like, oh shit
He ain't had none in a minute or he had the money to get it now
We about to hear kick us out but get the fuck out of here. Dang. Dang scared. I'll be on my bike
right away
But then when he had it was the best dude in the world and then when I got older I was standing a little bit
Well, I give him I give him 20 he but see that's why fuck with you big bone crusher
Bone crusher
Their boss crush come here here I was best friend after that
That's my road though
Hey good times. Hey, you seem to know a lot of crackheads man. Yeah people smoke crack. Yeah, they do
I mean, I don't know any like now in here like in this in Huntsville
but like where I grow up, you know, it's just like your
Family people's uh, your friends family. You know, there's just around
And now I think it's meth
Yeah, I think cuz it's like easy to get high longer and all that shit get a good little meth
I think some people do start doing meth because they think it's coke or people are telling them that it is coke
It could be it looks the same is like ice or whatever cuz they snort that and then they get addicted to meth
But they thought it was coke. I think ice is something different though. I mean, it's still met me
It's still meth, but there's like different forms of it. I believe because ice water
vapor
Smoking crack is the meth airbender
Shit versus heroin
Oh
Meth was fuck him up heroin. They're too chill. They're too crack. You think crack nation?
Oh crack nation. They're the OGs though. You know, I'm saying they got some fucking machinery. You never thought of yeah
There's some scary shit man resourceful shoot CDs at you and shit
The general walk away
Guys, they stole all your crack and you're gonna have to get it back
Fucking next hour. They're gonna have all that shit back. You're gonna tear everything up
Yeah, they're gonna get that shit if you get enough crackers together
They'll build a spaceship if a lot of crap is on the fuck
Yeah, if you get enough of them together, they would absolutely accomplish this you can build a whole think about this when we're thinking about
What we need in this country?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah
If you want if you if you if you good and you like know some crackers
They will get you the best shit like now I couldn't imagine all the technology they would have they steal it
But we get hunter Biden. Let's elect him dude
I heard he was dabbling if he knew any secrets that motherfucker was telling every prostitute that he fucked
You just know what he was telling prostitutes the craziest thing like a $75 hooker. Yeah
Exactly. She knows all these secret
She knows more than general
And she just gets fucked like
Yeah, we're posting they North Korea in 2025 you got the 10-year plan that was so
Lay was that late late. Yeah
It's not even the right sound
That's not you hear it in your headphones, I know but I just my words are weird one
Did you ever have to take the hearing test? Yeah in elementary school with the headphones
I feel like Brandon failed but the nurse wasn't paying attention. Yeah, we were talking about that the other day
You do have hearing problems, right? Yeah. I know I do I did too. I can't hear shit. Yeah, I can't hear man
I can see pretty good. I can't hear you don't wear any contact. No, you wear contact. No
I gotta get my eyes checked though, man. It's been a while. Can you see a shit blurry?
Sometimes it'd be blurry. I did that for I literally
Cuz I was supposed to wear glasses and I couldn't put contacts in at first
So like until I was probably 27, I didn't wear any glasses unless I like had to shoot
for qualifying or something like that and then uh, and then I just start putting contacts
I'm like damn this is so much better. I can see shit. Yeah, I could always be like this just
Sacrificing your vision because you don't want to look lame. Yeah, I used to have glasses though
But I remember I would always lose them and then whenever I put them on people like man, you look even more special
So I like fuck that
Yeah, well, I imagine Brandon you had like the goggles with the strap
That was when I played basketball. When he was wrestling. That's when I played basketball like literally. You did have that?
Yeah for basketball. He did have it. When I played basketball cuz I thought that was cool
That's who I was trying to be like. Let me try to get the sky hook. You play for the school?
My school? No, man. They always made me the water boy. Mm-hmm
And then one time they all got together and like Brandon look man
Some people are just meant to be something and you are meant to be a water boy. What kind of bullshit is that?
Did they make a movie about this?
No, man. That's what they did. I was thinking water boy
No, man, they literally said you are the best water boy ever dude. I'm just handing you water. What the fuck?
Yeah, when I was trying to be on the team
And then I got on a real team for a recreational park and that shit was horrible
That was embarrassing. I was fat. They made me wear these tight ass like
Shorts because they didn't have a bigger size and then like it would just be going around and shit
I'd be doing this and trying to shoot people be blocking my shot because I was like five feet five or five four
They six foot and it was so bad. Some of the teammates would be crying and shit, man
Crying like crying. Yeah, that's not bad. They were like one of the dudes. He was like I can't do this shit no more
I was like just hang in there, bruh. I can't do it. How old are you? I can't do it anymore
We're like 13
This week's featured comedian
It's a hard being a lesbian in the south y'all because they make all sorts of assumptions about us based on how we look
For example, my wife is more feminine than I am so they assume that i'm the god whatever the fuck that means
So i'm like, all right, let's test your theory for a second
Uh, I hold a purse when we go shopping. I open doors for her. I like sports more than she does
But y'all she's way more into porn and motorboating
Is just killing all the bugs it don't hold up
She's 15 years younger than I am
But in Alabama that really messes with them y'all they look at us all sideways like mother
Oh
All I know is they're way more comfortable me kissing her when they think i'm her sister
I was trying to listen for that static. I was like
Yeah, I don't hear any static it's good
Perfect, you guys did a good job big producer extraordinaire over there. Yeah, hold up man
Hey, that was roaring applause
Yeah, turn that down a tad bit
Brennan gets key happy on there. No, he he wants to plow whenever it's his
He'll turn it down for everybody else
JJ yeah, we got a special guest today very special guests
Today we have uh somebody who's an absolute pillar in the huntsville comedy strong one strong one
Uh the owner of shenanigans comedy theater great. Can I cut in there? Oh for sure
founder
founder co-founder co-founder
There we go co-founder of shenanigans comedy theater
I'll make that distinction because it's a non-profit. Okay, people don't own non-profits. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's our bat. That's our bat
I intern at a non-profit. I should know this but I don't
But uh, uh hilarious comic, uh, one of the shenanigans they run
Different like comedy variety shows. They do a lot of different stuff community outreach really cool stuff going on over there
It's uh, kimberly wilson
Thank you for coming on I
Knew what I should have said man. What I drive the way I drive I go on uh,
The research park till I get into huntsville get into town. I see this electronic billboard with a mercedes advertisement
And I see kim on there and i'm like, holy shit. That's crazy. I see that too
See, I didn't I didn't know kim was out there like that and then I was watching tv
I was watching a game and then a commercial came on. I was like hold the fuck up. Is that kill?
lexus of uh, it was alexis mercedes
Mercedes mercedes of huntsville. I'm like, oh she's big balling out there
Commercial billboards I see and she's hilarious. I'm talking about hilarious. We did a show
Uh sci-fis. It was all black showing kim
And uh
Was it that I don't know which one but I know I I thought there was an intermission
So I walked outside to smoke a cigarette and I came back and kim was on stage and you could hear the wall shaking
From the outside as you walk in i'm like what's happening? Kim was in there murdering
Like tearing that fucking place down kills kills. I think I saw your first ever headline set at shenanigans
It was there right? Yeah. Yeah. I remember something I did like a full 45. That was that and that was this
That was I want to say july something like that. Yeah. Okay
That was full 45. We got big comedians in here now
Yeah
Yeah, let's combine don't have 45
So that's great
So how you doing kepp i'm doing great i'm doing great. Thanks so much for having me on and for cooking
I'm just gonna spill the tea here
But this dude can cook
Hell yeah, i'll do every week. Oh, well, i'm glad you like that. I'm glad you like that
so so uh kim you do a lot of um,
Um, like uh shows around huntsfield. It's not just stand-up
Improv which uh are hilarious. I hear always good, uh things about the improv set the what the drag shows
Is that what they call it?
Well, it depends on which version yeah, yeah, there's we do a lot of shows
But instead of just doing regular drag shows we do drag as a component within shows
Okay, okay because you can catch regular drag shows everywhere now
and so
My wife jessica it was shout out was her that was like, okay
We like doing drag and we want to support that community, but we're not doing what everybody else is doing
So like last night we had drag family feud and love it next
Two weeks from now. We're gonna have a drag show
A murder mystery and that'll be the second one actually had one before and it sold out and it was great
So like you play they play the roles and the audience has to pick who oh, so they do drag numbers
So they're earning their tips and performing drag but then jessica actually writes the whole script and everything
She writes the entire murder mystery
and um has uh
We do a who done it and the audience takes notes and interacts with the performers to figure it out
So get your tickets on schoolhouse.com because it's gonna sell out
Yeah, and I want to tell you because i've everything i've shown my friends
Uh, they all love it like the perv bingo like I think people would love to come to these shows
Uh, what else you got you got perv bingo. Yeah, and that's uh, just i'm not correcting you
But so they know what to look for is bingo perv bingo perv. Okay, what's funny is like everybody says it
If you want to be the perv first and not play the games whatever
But um, yeah, it's like an adult game night 18 and up because uh, it's not for the faint of heart
But yeah, it's we jessica and I make up
Most of our shows that are end up being big hits are made up when we're bored and need to fill a spot on the calendar
And we're just like, all right. What can we come up with here? I love it and that's what we do
So like that's that's has been one of our biggest shows and continues to grow. So that's really fun
Okay, and um, you do a lot of improv there. Do you do you perform the improv? I don't as much anymore
um, I I am the
referee and the host for improv thunderdome and so I basically
Introduce and run the games and such and then I play with them on stage at the end when we do
A game called pocket lines and freeze tag
Um, but then I don't perform very much of the improv anymore
It's just like I like improv and I have a lot of respect for the very talented people
We have doing it there and honestly, i'd rather kind of be on the production end and let them shine
Because they are so good at it. I love that. I got that same mindset. That's why I got these guys
Yeah, but uh, nobody else is doing those type of shows in mtville not not much if at all yeah
I'm shocked at like shenanigans is a genuinely cool spot
You can go have a drink get some snacks watch a good comedy show a good improv show audience involvement
I was looking forward to uh, justin ledlow show the player you that it's like interactive improv where the audience gets involved
He was telling me that's dope man. That's dope
Yeah, and audience love audiences love to be involved, right?
Yeah, when you do that, you just bring you know, you really they're really happy whenever they leave a shenanigan
Well one of the speaking of justin show
Let me just knock this around
Speaking of justin show it we had the postponement because it's during the ice apocalypse
That we had
But he did like a preview of that on the last comedy test kitchen and I can explain that if you want but
um, and the game was that he left the room
Gave a random audience member a pool noodle and then got a suggestion from the audience and the suggestion was you know in the
In the process of this other thing that he's doing which was to kind of to deliver an address
What thing can we whack him with a pool noodle pool noodle every time he does?
And so the audience said every time he puts his hands like straight down at his sides
And but he doesn't know what he's doing to get whacked
Right, so he comes back in and he starts doing his thing and this guy and it's funny because the guy
Had a messed up leg. So he's on one of those scooters knee scooters
And he's up there on stage knee scooter just like this with a pool noodle
And then every time justin put his arms out he whacked
And just by the end justin was traumatized. He's like what am I doing?
But it was hilarious and the audience loved it and that's just a little taste of the kind of stuff
They're gonna do but that's been rescheduled to march. I believe i want to say march 15th, but huntsvillelives.com
Huntsville huntsvillelives.com. Yep, because people can't spell shenanigans. So
Our url is huntsvillelives.com again. Shout out to my wife for that. Shout out
Yeah, I love it I can't spell shenanigans. Me neither. Oh I do the voice thing shenanigans
See, that's the oldest way to do it. See you should just go to the bio and click the link, you know
Instant but that's a yeah, I have to get on facebook because that's where you're most uh, that's where you're on the most
Well, we're we're trying to grow our ig and it's growing slowly, but surely but yeah, we have like 11 000 followers on
Facebook
And so of course we're gonna keep feeding that yeah, that's where most people have eyes on us and we've got
Excuse me as I look at my wife. How many ig followers do we have about?
Anyway, not nearly as many less than half of that, but we're trying to grow that so follow us on instagram
Yep shenanigans comedy theater. Yeah, it'll all be up there
whenever um
I just forgot what I was about to ask you. No, but I know I don't know so
You're a hilarious stand-up comedian and we had a show there for the newbies that you put on for us. Thank you
All the new comics we love it. The comics are talking about it. That's that's really good stuff
And what was your joke about my god? Oh my gosh about jason because we murdered it whenever we tried to say it on it
All right. So the way that story goes is i'm in the booth. I am not hosting i'm not performing
I'm not doing anything we just that again. This was me and jessica coming up with this show concept
And so the show concept is that the host gets roasted at the end each of the new comics gets a chance to roast the host
Then the host goes back and roasts all the new comics
I'm sitting over there in the booth and my good friend. I love him to death. His name is jason minter
And he was a new comic on the show and so then he insults me
He starts roasting me saying I look like I ate tig notaro and fortune feet or whatever nice fat joke
But and so i'm like, oh wait a minute here. I'm catching shrapnel over here. What's that about?
So I just waited my turn and then whenever jonathan started roasting people he got to jason
Now to give you some context jason is bald, but he is a ginger. So he has a very red
Beard and a complexion very similar to mine
And so when it got to there and jonathan was about to move on I said hold up a second
I get to roast jason if he roasted me
So I just said that jason looked like I started shaving my pussy and stopped
Murder murder, here's the best joke of the night. Oh, yeah
It was one by four. I mean you hurt everybody
It looks so fucking funny. I could just sit there and take it. Yeah, you gotta hit him back. Who does he think he is?
I was standing right next to him on stage and he went
oh
He was taking a bath his pearls jason's gay, too, by the way
Just to add more context to the I I couldn't believe he only started in november really
Well, not to pat myself on the back or anything, but
He came through my comedy class
Oh, yeah, and you do teach comedy classes and improv classes and sketch writing
Correct. All of those are taught there. I personally teach the stand-up
Okay, and I was teaching the improv class, but now we've passed that off to
Another person actually two guys matthew carter and ben bowden teach the improv. Okay. Okay
and then kb singer is teaching our sketch classes and
We had the guy we had a guy yesterday
Who are you guys familiar with kian peel? Oh, yeah
I love it. All right. So, you know the substitute teacher sketch the one with a ron. Yeah, balaki. Yep
The guy jack welling the guy that wrote that sketch taught classes at shenanigans yesterday
That's dope. His name's rich talarico. I heard I heard y'all. What'd you say? His name was rich talarico rich talarico. Yeah
But he's he was a big time writer on sketch or kian peel starting out live tonight show and he's teaching at shenanigans
So we need to go to one of those. Yeah
When I first started actually I messaged ty funny because I found his instagram
I saw he's doing huntsville or comedy in huntsville. And I was like, what should I do? You know, i'm trying to get into this
He's just sent me the link to the stand-up class at shenanigans
I was gonna sign up for it, but all the spots were taken for that specific like go around
You got to get in there quick folks. Yeah, if you want to get a spot you better you just
i'm telling you jason killed he murdered and uh
Uh only been doing it since november and this was in december
Right. No, he he took the class. He took the first round. So he's been doing it about
Six seven months, maybe still extremely, uh short and my friends who came they were like, oh, we love that guy
Funny, so if you want to be good in a relatively short time, uh, go to class that's shenanigans
Those tickets are high
Uh, oh, yeah, so I was watching, uh a podcast you did about four years ago with scott
called, uh
Oh, oh, okay. Yeah now I remember go ahead show huntsville is what it was called. Oh was it right?
No, that's not it. But it's something like that
Yeah
And then you were on there and this was it was cool to see because this is when you first came or started shenanigans
And it wasn't you didn't even have your alcohol license yet. And it was it was it was so fun to go back and and
And see you then so you lived in austin
For how long 17? Well, I was in texas for 17 years lived in the austin area for 10
So you're pretty much the reason for the comedy boom
Oh
single-handedly
Yeah, forget joe rogan who never heard of
The guy
So when you were there, uh, did you do stand-up or improv a lot improv, okay predominantly I did improv
um, I started off getting trained with uh comedy sports, which is kind of a national chain and they had a
A thing in austin and the guy's name there was les mcghee and then
We started a gay
Improv troupe and I love the name we were called the three dollar bills
And uh, we were coached by a guy named tom booker and yeah did a lot of improv there
It's stand-up. It's been weird for me
And I don't know how much you want to go into it at this point, but I kind of when I was
Somewhere around between 19 and 21. I was still in huntsville because I grew up here. I moved away for my first teaching job
That's how I ended up in texas
But uh grew up here family here
And then when I was around that age there was in scott I think mentioned it but there was a
Mainstream comedy club back in the day called the comedy club and it burned down
But before all that they had their open mic night was on thursday before the show
That was going to be the weekend show. That's how they did it
And I remember going up and trying it and getting a favorable response
But I don't remember that much about it because i'm old and that was a long time ago
so
I just kind of dropped it because college and moving and life happened and then I was
I went to see an improv show and loved it
So that's how I got into that but I still had this itch that I wasn't sure about with stand-up
So we moved back here in 2012
And we start doing our own thing with um, another business we had in summerville called the summerville playhouse
It was like the precursor to shenanigans, but it wasn't a non-profit and started some performing there got involved with improv there
and then in 2018 my mom passed away and
Thank you, and it was it was really hard time because um, she's amazing human and and my heart
So I was really struggling and I had been going to stand-up live
It was very shortly after stand-up live first opened
And saw that they were offering stand-up classes there
And I was like, you know what? Maybe if I take this class
Because my mom passed away in January the end of January in 2018 the class happened in april
And with the encouragement of my wife who is the most encouraging spouse on the planet
Um, she's like just go do this, you know, maybe they'll help you kind of forget not forget stuff
We you know think about something else other than this and
So I was like, well if I try it then i'll know one way or the other if it's something I should do if I should just like
Yeah, it's not really for me. Whatever
at the time, uh, the main teacher was jonathan craig and um
Amazing guy still a good friend of my day like jonathan
If the people that know jonathan will know how true that this is and for those of you that don't know him
He's that kind of guy who
I was just in his class and by the second week. He was my mentor
You know what I mean?
Like he he was always willing to do everything he could to help and to be positive and all that and to this day
I could whip out my phone right now and text him and I'd get a response
Love people like that
And keep in mind now he's one of jellyroll's people so it's not like he's not busy
But yeah, Scott was telling us about that
Yeah, he's the kind of guy that it doesn't matter what he's doing. I'm still his friend, you know
And he was a really good teacher
Really good teacher and then I met scott that same way because jonathan brought in scott
Tom hand and another guy named brandon imes who is in tampa now
to kind of be
Kind of like guest teachers toward the end of the class when we were doing sets and stuff
and um, I I got up there and
Haven't looked back since as far as standing we're glad you didn't yeah. Hell. Yeah. Hell. Yeah
Yeah, that's crazy how it all comes full circle
You know from taking the class to then starting a place that acts as that for new up-and-coming comics
Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, and you know, that's that's all kind of part of the the design of the way that jessica
And I kind of see and do most everything and also shout out to scott because after that class, um
He and jonathan because it kind of morphed when jonathan started doing other things and scott kind of stepped in as the
Main teacher that class and both of them utilized me to come back and and help with the class
I was you know, kind of considered, you know
Helping alone if you will
And then I also did some private coaching with scott where he really helped me to build my um,
Joke riding muscles and stuff like that. So hats off to him as well
Hell, yeah, it's awesome shout out. It's awesome. So you said you moved to texas for your first teaching job
Yes, how would you compare teaching like an actual classroom of students at a school to compare it like compare that to teaching stand-up?
Is it comparable? It's uh apples and oranges as long as you realize that the apples don't give a fuck
And the oranges paid to be there
Okay, yeah, I love that makes sense
Makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I I tried my hand at teaching. I failed miserably
I heard I heard that I was a I was a student teacher local high school in huntsville. It was terrible
They hated me. I hated them. It's not for everyone. It's not it's not my hat's off to anybody who could do it
I'll tell you this. I was in when I first moved to texas. I was in killeen, texas, which is fort hood world's largest
Base. Yeah. Yeah, I know about the hood now everything happens out the hood
I'm gonna tell you this you start teaching there. You're either gonna make it or break it because there is no in between
That's a completely transient student population because it's a military so nobody
You know is from there. Nobody is native to killeen people are always in and out
And that made it tough and this was in the mid to late 90s
So gangs were a thing a big thing in this area because these kids had no sense of belonging
They're they're not from there didn't grow up there. There's no family there
So you find family you get in where you fit in and gangs were a big thing there
um, and but I I loved
that
that population I loved that experience because it
Taught me something. I never would have learned if I stayed in alabama
ever ever
and I was successful with those kids because you know
I am not your typical alabamian as far as the way that I grew up
My dad was in the military and he was a race relations officer during the civil rights movement
So even though i'm out in the country and looking like I do
um
You you never heard the any racial slurs in our house
You never heard anything disrespectful because my dad was one of the first white dudes in alabama that I know of that got it
You know, okay, and so he raised my brother and I that way
um, so I think that had a big big part in me being successful when I went to texas
But I said you didn't look at them differently, you know, yeah
I mean I had to learn some things just because their
Their way of life being trans even though I was a military kid. I didn't move around a lot
Past like preschool age. We were pretty much settled by the time that I was in school
so that was different from these kids, but
Um, we did share a lot of similarities as far as understanding what it meant to be a military kid and have parents
Be deployed and things like that because that did happen even after we were settled
My dad got, you know shipped off to korea and so on and so forth
but um, you know, it's a fantastic
realization that
The thing that you weren't even aware was going on in your childhood opened you up to a richness of life
You wouldn't have otherwise experienced. Mm-hmm. I love that. I love that. Yeah. Yeah
so, um
I seen you were on a roast battle
Yeah, what's so much fun big names? Yeah huge names. Who'd you have yet? Tony Hinchcliffe, uh, Jeff Ross
What's Tony? I remember that's what's been there
Okay, okay, and then
Can you tell us about this because that's awesome. Yeah, so
before um
shenanigans
It was kind of like I don't think we had started shenanigans when that happened
I don't remember exactly but it was in the early days and I was doing a lot more stuff at shenan or at stand-up live before
um shenanigans just mainly
scheduling a problem
but um
Lucy who is the booker for zanies in nashville and also does a lot of the booking at stand-up live
Okay, she contacts me because i've been doing a lot of stuff and she said hey you want to be on this roast battle
Well, i'm not like a natural roaster
Because I don't like hurting people's feelings. I'm kind of a wimp in that regard
um, but then
And plus I was new and so I was kind of timid in that regard
But she's like, you know, you'll you'll get to know who you're gonna be against so then you know
You can prepare. It's not like you have to go up and do it off the cuff. I'm like, okay
Yeah, i'll do it. No problem. Oh, yeah
So I went up against brad sativa out of nashville
And do you guys know if brad i've seen some stuff on social media?
Yeah, he's an amazing comic and he's doing really cool stuff. He's all around all around the u.s at this point
but um brad
has a similar
Beard structure to jonathan except for he doesn't have a mustache. Oh armor style. Yeah. Yeah, so I went hard on that
Yeah, there he is
You see what i'm doing? Okay. Yeah
But I went up against brad and
I was ready and he was just gonna kind of play it off the cuff
I guess he thought he was you know, just gonna be all right without preparing
He went down
Killed him buried him. Yeah. Oh, yeah
I used the roast he did against me as part of my opener for a long time though
Because he's very funny like he told me I look like uh, I could be both dan and roseanne connor
That's a great roast
Look like a polyamorous stepdad
I love your joke. I want to put it out there because uh, give your material away, but you know, uh
The big test joke how you end up on that one
Yeah
Yeah, that roast battle was fun and um that it was a packed house and it each each little local match was just kind of
Because what they did is they got I want to say three or four pairs of us to roast each other
That were fairly local huntsville nashville that kind of thing
And then after that they had their touring comics that got up and roasted each other as part of the roast battle
But it was full production. They had the guy over here on the ones and twos and
And then the real rowdy guys running around with all their stuff it was fun
Damn. Oh that that's cool. Always want to do a roast
Uh, well i'm not good enough yet
You know what I mean, but I could write some I could write some uh,
Some dingers I think
Try it out. We've done some roast battle type stuff at shenanigans, too
We like to build roasting into stuff
Okay, so similar to what we did because just having a whole show of roast it gets kind of repetitive
And especially we do a lot of stuff tournament style
So if you have somebody that keeps going through the tournament, well, then you've hit on just about everything
They can be roasted for pretty quick. Okay. Yeah, those are all things that you kind of consider when you're building shows like that
Okay, so whenever you know, you're going to go up against somebody but you go to the next round
So you just have to have material for everyone, right? Yeah, and then hope and then if somebody says yours you got to take it out
Right, you gotta pay attention. Mm-hmm. Because otherwise everybody's like heck. Yeah, right
Just heard that. Yeah
That's good. That's challenging. That's what I was worried about with uh roasting jonathan on the uh, newbie show because he has a very distinct look
Yeah, but leann went the hardest on his look. Oh my goodness all those commercials
Hit him hard he probably did after
I saw him in his car. I don't mean that in the
jj said that
I didn't say that
Right next to that white baby he had in his office civic, you know
I do want to say I just saw this on like our intel sheet from our undisclosed researcher that will remain anonymous
I love how number five is double knee replace
Comedy is a full contact career
Yeah, I love it he's the best intel guy
All right, so am I commenting on that or you're just observing?
Hey go researcher because you're right I had them both done at the same time damn I am no wimp, okay
Yeah, that's thugging it out right there
But you know, how long were you in the wheelchair for?
Oh, I had not after I got out of the hospital. I was I went straight Walker. Wow. Oh damn. Yep
This is new technology
No, it's called like well
That's the thing is I don't know if you've ever known anybody that could be supportive and whoop your ass at the same time
That's my wife
So she's just like don't be a pussy get up. You gotta go walk. You gotta do your pt. I love it
Hey, if anybody ever has to do any kind of knee stuff, that's my one bit of advice
I'll tell them is don't limp out on the pt. You're gonna cry it's gonna hurt
But if you do everything you're supposed to do, you'll be all right. So here I am two new knees
Yeah, don's been looking into it
But the va surgeons, you know, they'll fuck you they won't give you shit
They still haven't gave me any fucking eczema cream. I'm getting I'm getting
He's been talking about this for so long since the first episode. I'm getting my boy watch the show
He was like, I'll bring you some uh, the next time we hang out. I'm getting secondhand
Steroid crick
It's not even like it's percussive anything. All right, so we don't even have to verify this now
But I bet you by the time we're done with this
My wife is gonna have a recommendation for you for smegs. I'm a creep. I'll fucking take all that
I'll fucking take all that this hurts and the winner too. Oh, okay. Ain't no fucking joke you need a recommendation for your hemorrhoids, right?
I'm not verifying that I'm not saying to go hook you up on that side
Not not the him maybe some other shit, but not damn bro. You go with the other stuff
You know you admit it last episode. Yeah, I did admit it. I got it
I got the eye ward, but you don't want to fix it. Is that what I know?
I want to fix it. You know, fuck it. You got hemorrhoid cream. It was a fix send it
We should get a p.o box. I don't know. Brandon's like well the way I see it. It's a cushion
Sit here on it. It's all right
We'll fix it
Brandon's mom doesn't believe in mental health, but he doesn't believe in physical health
He's fine. That is true. That sentence says so much
That is true
My favorite is when i'm watching y'all show and Brandon goes straight to the camera
I'll be watching and editing. You know, we got like three cameras, right?
So i'll be looking through them and then he does that when he doesn't say anything either
He'll just look at the camera and be like
So sometimes I just cut over
Keep doing that
He sits there. He just nods his head. Yep. He's like, yeah. Yeah. No Brandon. No
No, yeah one time I got in a situation. I like yeah. Yeah, wait a minute. What the fuck we talking about you?
I know that was that was like yesterday. Yeah, yeah
That was last one last week. Yeah one time
So I got in a situation one time. Yeah. Yeah
That's how all his best stories start. Yeah
Well, there was this one guy
I was a fat ass kid
He's like p.o von in that way. Yeah, I just ran to say crazy shit
I
And then I hear my own air brakes
Brandon has a whole fan club here. That's why we have this camera. They were like we gotta have a camera on brand
That's really why we changed it
And you know what nobody ever
Roasted us on the episode that we said roast comment a roast and you'll get 25 dollars. Nobody ever ever did it
So how about you?
They love you too much. Yeah, oh damn you could have just said dom's fat you at a 125. Damn it
I would have voted for you
I should have just went on a different account and pretend like it was a random person
I should have called a family member hook them up
It's still up for grabs go back to episode six or whatever. Whatever. What I don't remember which is
I think it's sci-fi is right to see all these on there
26
Mm-hmm, and you could be a comedian and uh, yeah, i'm still comment on if you like
I was trying to think of something to do right here. Do you do you act ever?
I are you into acting? I like acting a lot
And it's funny because I was going through some stuff recently and I was reminded of acting I did in college
At athens state university
How that's uh part of the dreamsleeves players?
See what happened was
I
I was a career student. It took me like 10 years to get my undergrad degree just because I kept changing my mind
Oh, i'm with you. I'm on your seven right now
foreign counting
I went through everything for an elementary degree and
Got up to student teaching. I can't do this. They're too young. They'll never get my jokes. So
I changed to secondary language arts and
At that point I needed some electives
And I went to I took a theater elective just because I had to have a ela type elective
First night I went in there. They were reading for parts on uh for to kill a mockingbird
And I didn't even know what it meant to read for a part. They're like, hey, uh, we're auditioning now
You want to read for a part? I'm like, I know how to read what are you talking about?
And so they handed me a script and I read for the part and I got cast as mayella yule
The white trash lady that got raped
Supposedly it's kill a mockingbird. Yeah. Oh, yeah
They do have a movie though
Do they yeah, yeah, it's a black and white movie though, right? Yeah, you took me out. Oh, so now
Now it's racist. Is that what you
I mean don't is that the one what they call? Uh,
Jim
That's not no that's that's how very
Okay, yeah, okay
There is a gem in to kill a monkey. Okay, j.m
Which stores is short for jeremy who is the son? Oh, okay. Okay scout is the main character's her brother
Okay, i'm going back and watching it now me too. Let's watch it together. It's really a good movie. It holds up
I mean as much as to kill a mockingbird is about on a trial. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay
Okay, now it's coming back to me. It's coming back to me. I I what did you think it was?
I'm not gonna lie to you. I was a hunting man. Yeah, I did I did I thought
I thought it was a very fistful
So let me tell you this, you know now i'm a teacher and I teach to kill a mockingbird because I teach freshmen
And it always kills me and you know the ones who don't really read the book whenever they're like
In the book how to kill a mockingbird. I'm like, it's not a how-to book
That's my ass
You got to get a net
Yeah
So I asked you that because you know, we do skits would you ever would you ever be in one of our skits a hundred percent
Actually, we had um, I had an idea that I threw out to Jessica on the way here for a skit. Oh shit
You want to do it off or
It's it's up to you. Yeah, we could do it
Let's do it
What I mean, I mean to explain what it is if you want to do it off camera on camera. Oh, I don't care
That's okay. Yeah. Yeah, let's do it. So the idea that I had is looking like this and like having this shirt on
um to do where people are talking to me as if you know, they're assuming that i'm gay and i'm like
Why do people keep thinking i'm gay?
My god, that's good. I just have a roommate for 15 years
I like dig as much as a net
Yeah, or whatever but playing on that idea looking like this and people making assumptions and not being real
I love that. I already got it turning in the head right now
How are you thinking? How are you thinking the setup? Like where's the first scene? I don't know. I didn't get that deep
It was just on the way here. Don't worry about it. We're going I looked in the mirror and i'm like, yeah
Something needs to happen with all that
Well dom's the gas station attendant
Yeah, you know one time I went uh, oh I used to buy liquor whenever I was uh 16 because I had this
I had a facial hair since I was 16 and I went to the
Uh, I think they were indian or they could have been anything but uh, no
They were they had to have been so they they were one of the middle eastern or asian. I know indians
They i'm pretty sure they were i'm pretty sure they were indian but it's crazy because I lived over there
Yeah, that's crazy because I have a map
So, uh, I was in a wrestle so my name got in the paper because I won this tournament they were like
This is you this is you and I was like, oh man
So they wouldn't sell me liquor so I literally went home and put a towel over my head and wrapped it up
It went back and they sold it to me. Shut up. I swear to god. I have witness. I swear to god
We'll ask dilo and sal right now. They were they were in the car with me and it was a pink towel
He's not a reputable source
He's gonna fuck you up
He's coming down like in a month to shoot this skit
If you're wondering in our uh picture for our channel who rolled the crack pipe out of tin foil
We're gonna put a picture up for dilo right here
He come like come on, man
I do photography. I can't be like
Oh
Speaking of crack pipes, I want to know where that came from. Oh, that's uh, my friends go ahead
Yeah, just don't act like you don't want to tell you
Show it to the camera and the tits
Uh, so, uh, my friends went to puerto rico and they saw tits in the dick and they were like, of course we get this for dom
I have both
Best of both worlds
Oh my
Uh, yeah, my friends are dicks
You know, it's actually a fossil it's not even wood it's a fossilized penis from like a thousand years ago
Yeah, right. Is it really? No
How would I know I know I was thinking I was like, hold on
Did you know something like that?
Maybe I haven't looked at it enough. This is king caesar's
King caesar's
Little caesar's yeah little king caesar
It's hot and ready over there
That's more like launchable size. Yeah. Yeah
It's big enough. Yeah
It's plenty that's a respectable bottle opener. It's plenty he used it
That's the only way to pop the hemorrhoids
Yeah, for randon. Is that why brandon has them? You gotta tell me that after what's going on. I'm just playing
Do not
You guys are a hoot
So that's what happens when he gets around all white women
Yeah, you guys are such a hoot he's so ambiguous he just blends in
He assimilates
I've been told you're one of the good ones multiple times. He's like, you know, they're not all you're one of the good ones
Like they think that's a compliment. Yeah, you gotta let it roll because usually it's around with a lot of white people
You gotta let it roll. If you ever hear that coming from ogre, he knows that like he's he knows that that's a joke
Ogre could do no wrong. Yeah, over could do anything. He could do no wrong. I love him
I love how he's a hugger because i'm a hugger too
He'll be like because I thought he didn't like me because I went to go get a fist bump one time
And he looked at he literally looked at me like this and I was like
Oh shit
I was like over that like well, I don't know what I did
And then uh the next time I like try to get my fist bump again, and then he just gave me a hug
I was like, okay, I got more i'm on ogre's good side. I feel good now
Okay, so inside baseball he didn't see it the first time you're trying to give it to him. Yeah
Yep, that's right. Yep
So if you guys don't know who we're talking about local comic, his name is ogre jerry woodruff
one of my best friends in the world is
blind and diabetic and um
His foot well, yeah, that's a side
So he's missing he only has one
Appendage that has all the digits. He has one hand that has all five now
He's got one hand is missing a finger and both feet are missing at least one or more toes. Oh
He's he's had it rough, but he looks like super dumb and racist and he's neither of those things
And he's but he plays into it for his comedy. He's hilarious
Whenever men first came to uh shenanigans and he won this night
I mean he damn sure because he you could tell he was trying to get in the set but she kept on interrupting
And he laid into her but in the funniest way and she said, uh, god hates you or something like that
He was like I got i'm fuck here in a wheelchair. No shit
We're gonna put a picture of him up here he's a great follower on social media too he posts some funny shit every single day
Yeah, so he posted stuff that they post on twitter that I never see on instagram
Oh like the little funny memes and I hate on instagram how you can't comment with a fucking picture
Yeah, I hate everything about the functionality of instagram. See give me something. I'm right here with you
They're gonna say it's just because we're old. Yeah
Yeah, my grandma would just want me to tell mark zuckerberg to change it because I have that ability
You know mark, right?
Yeah, we went to school together. It was great. All right, so you had a comedy series filmed that shenanigans for amazon prime
Yeah, it was supposed to be oh
That was that was a big one. Oh was it damn? Yeah, they backed out
Okay, so what happened was um
this
gentleman named jesse pollard
and he
went to went through this process of
of contacting amazon and
They're like if you will shoot this content
Then you know, we'll put it up and based on views and all this like there was some kind of an agreement
As like they greenlit him to do a trial if you will
so he hired a professional videographer and all this and
we shot
I don't remember. I think it was
six episodes or something like that and um
And they were really good episodes, but then um something technical went wrong
Like they didn't meet certain parameters for amazon. So they never put them up, but they're good. Okay. They're on youtube. Okay. Okay
Yeah, technical stuff. We're learning that like yeah
like I get nervous after every shoot because i'm like if one if if the if the uh,
um
The mics aren't recording or or two or one of the cameras goes out like it's a big deal then you you lose shit
Yeah, yeah, it's awful. Well, we've been on it brandon great producer over there. Hell. Yeah
But speaking of comedy series we also had um a
Two part series shot at shenanigans for demi tv d e m i tv
Which is its own streaming platform
and um, it was called the demi gods of comedy and
I know part one got put up there. It's available on there. I'm not sure about part two though. Okay
It's and this is on oh you said it's semi tv. Is he said demi tv? Okay
Good friend of ours demetrius malone is the gentleman who is where the demi comes from. Okay
And um, it's his streaming platform. He's a playwright actor
Uh, he has been and I think still does write for a lot of like soap operas and stuff like for
And he's written stuff for netflix and all this other kind of thing
He's predominantly a writer but he started out wanting to be an actor and then got the bug to be a writer
And now he does all sorts of stuff. Okay. Okay. He's local to huntsville, too, by the way
I'm gonna have to look this up. Yeah, he started out in florence, but he's in huntsville now
Now what's the name again demetrius? It's d e m e t r i u s demetrius malone
You said malone, yes, sir
And so what's cool about the
Yeah, none of those. None of those. Okay. Okay. Let's hopefully it's not the guy in the top
Say that's definitely not the mugshot comedy. I want to put comedy
He did say that's okay upper right corner. That's him. Oh nice. Okay. Okay right here. Yeah and see next to it
website
Save that too
So yeah, that's demetrius there you go. Oh, there's homegrown dude. Hell yeah
I got kicked off next month for black history month. I still produce the show kind of
I heard you say something about affirmative action
I'm affirmative action dude. I thought they ended that
You don't like it now
Jonathan was like i'll put you up at the end, but i'm not gonna pay you
It's like right before we get off demetrius demetrius tv. He started that because he wanted to
uh be able to
Produce he has written and produced shows actual original content for that platform
But he also gives a lot of space and opportunity for other folks that
Are more like original independent indie kinds of stuff on his platform. So
Shout out demi tv
so what would you what what um
Advice would you give to somebody wanting to go up there and do improv or acting?
like uh
Do you have any advice for that?
well for improv
We do some things that can kind of help you figure that out before you make a financial commitment
Once a month on the second sunday of every month. We do an open improv jam
And so it's from zero to experience. We just ask that folks are like at least 16 to come to that
and um
We have some of our improv more experienced improv coaches and players who will run exercises
It's like an open mic but for improv and then that way you can come and sit in you
Don't have to play if you don't want to if you're just curious about it
You can sit and watch you can come and put your name in the bucket and play
and then if excuse me
And then if you decide that you want to pursue improv we have classes going on that I really recommend
So you start out with level one improv and that just started today actually
So it won't be back for a while and it's sold out. We got people on the waiting list
So it's like when these classes pop up you want to get those those seats
but we've got um
Level one started today and then they'll have another level two and we just kind of keep building that because that's another thing that
We saw a need and we're trying to fill and build the scene for that. So my my advice for that is definitely
Make sure that you want to do it
And then and the other thing is as you guys know by seeing how much you pay for a four loco as you're in here
We're not in it to make a ton of money
we just want to keep the doors open and try to make enough money to to start paying our talent more but
um
The classes are very reasonable. He's 150 bucks for a six weeks class. That's cheap. Yep
Uh, every friend that I brought to uh shenanigans has like one of my boy who just came to the newbie show
He's like i already told my wife i'm going once a month to shenanigans and I don't care what she says
I've already got it. He put his foot down
He put it down before he even before he even went home
We were at moody monday. He's like i'm going to shenanigans
It's a great time people i'm telling you you will have and it's so much to do
She what's the website huntsville laughs.com huntsville laughs.com go to that and you'll see that if you look if you search google search
Huntsville comedy. It's the first one of the I think the first thing that pops up or maybe second
It probably depends on which terms you use
Yeah
and then um
Because that's how that's how I found out about it
That's the only reason i'm doing stand-up now in here is because that was uh, the one that gave me the opportunity and I always
Say thank you. I'll tell you that every time
Me and brandon
We all met like that
My first opportunity to with the dj's name
I was about to say brandon was a volunteer at shenanigans before he ever started doing comedy
So he got up in there and started working the board and stuff and helping us out in that way when he could
He got busy with school and stuff, but you know, but that's so cool though
Like to have something like that like that's pretty much the reason all this started that's where we met
Like it's it's so crazy to think about that literally standing outside waiting for the doors to open
Yeah talking for a little bit going by the time we got in there
Well, you know, I went straight to the park
But before we even got out of line he's like we should start a park and it literally all happened at shenanigans
Always so thankful and we need to talk about something more serious
Uh, if sci-fi is not on the show, he needs to stay his ass out of the gray room exactly
exactly
Thank you for saying this. I mean what I was just looking I was like, oh we we get we get all this who put him on the board
Who put him on the board?
That would be myself and my lovely wife jessica recommended sci-fi to our board
So how's this shit? I just love fucking with him. I could I just that was so funny when you did that though
Oh my god, he walked in there and I just looked and then he starts plugging up his phone like oh, are you comfortable?
Do you want something to drink too? Make yourself at home
I didn't see you on the lineup, sir
I don't know. It says comics comics only
That was a big deal to get in the green room
You can ask that the whole time I was in there like you're the great because when I was in shenanigans before it's
I was like, oh you ever been in the green room before I was like no and then he put his hand in the middle
Of my chest. It was like, okay your time will come
Oh, that's fantastic
It's a rite of passage
Okay, we don't let you write on the wall in there, but we'll give you some food and drinks
Oh, yeah, oh you can write on the wall and uh stand up live, right?
Okay
It's a their thing is you can sign the wall if you can find a spot now people are signing the ceiling
And the floor and the floor and whatever jj's on it. Uh tonight
Hell yeah
Don't be shy and I'll put your name on the wall. I'll sign the floor
And uh, I will
I will buy you a drink at shenanigans if you find my name on the wall and take a picture of it
Challenge accepted. There you go. sci-fi has a similar thing with the stickers that he puts around everywhere
Like you put one at every venue like there's one on the locker of the speakeasy like going in there
He's like if you find it. Well, he doesn't he ain't shit. He don't offer you anything
I'll be looking for that. You can do a scavenger hunt
I just signed kim's name on the wall instead of my own
I know my signature
Oh, do you do you have stickers that we can buy?
I have stickers that I will give you because they don't look anything like me now
Okay, well I have some that are joke related
So they're specific to certain bits that I have. Oh, that's tight. And then I have
Uh some that have my image and they don't look like me at all because they like okay
Oh, we want to put because we're going to get a bigger map, right?
Yeah
So whenever we're going to redo the whole the whole background and get a bigger map and we want it so we can you know put
They're like also close together. The shenanigans is marked. It is one of these pins because I sat there on google maps
With the pins and hit them and the lady at michael's looked at me crazy when I bought these items together
Yeah, it was like the cork board. There's the red string. I was like, don't worry. I have a map of huntsville in my car
She's like yes, but what are you marking?
And why do you have duct tape?
And you look like that have you ever seen him walk he walks just like michael miers
If you like if nobody's paying attention to him
You're like I swear me me and my friend dilo when we shot the first uh, the intro to the com college, right?
And he was walking across like not meaning to look like a murderer and i'm like we just start cracking up
I was like, why is he walking like that? You know what it is. It was living with my grandparents. We have a long
Hallway with a creaky wooden floor. So you have to learn to walk without your footsteps making noise unless you want to get yelled at
Oh, okay. Okay. My footsteps don't make a sound i'm untraceable if I walk in the snow you want to see my shoe print, dude
i'm lied on my feet
And in those troubled times jj was carrying you
Put prints in the sand jesus and anyway, I digress
Yeah, me and dom do look like jesus in mohamed yeah, yeah, I see it we're here but truthfully he would look more like jesus
Yeah, oh, yeah, i've seen the picture the ai-generated one. I look like I look like a lot of the catholic imagery of jesus
Yeah, you look like the photo negative of the real jesus
I look like nick theory
Nick nick theory nick theory nick theory not mick foley nick nick theory nobody's theory
theory is i said i said
That's what that is. You don't know nick theory
I don't think anybody in this room knows what you're talking about right now
Last week he said he looked like robert penn
Nick what is he about to pull?
Nick fury, yeah nick theory theory you're saying theory like i have a theory. Yeah
furry fury fury fury
What you got here gil oh here oh I have
That's the sticker I want right there well open the bag and see what all is inside now some of it is shenanigan swag
But I personally made the best part of that bag. So go ahead. Oh dang. It's not food either. So y'all don't salivate
I'm gonna keep that. No, you don't need to keep it. Trust me. Okay
That's what I made for y'all
Damn that's sick. Thank you. That's dope actually
You could damn
You've got merch or oh, yeah
Or that could be what your guests earn when they come on your podcast. Oh, thank you. This is sick. This is so
This is awesome, this is so bad ass
The logo and everything
Damn, that's cool. I love this so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're welcome
The rest of it's just shenanigan swag
And I didn't know about your super secret
You know, we got a we got a book researcher guy. So i'll get another set for
For the other gentleman. Oh, yes. Perfect. That's what I'm saying. This is perfect
I'm not gonna do it on this one though, because we're gonna save these. Yeah, and we're gonna have it on
I'll just oh don't go ahead and put this one in your car
We got
Oh damn custom pins we got shenanigans pins bottle bottle openers, uh, I just messed up that word
Uh, and uh dough pads this is awesome kill thank you for real
You're gonna see these definitely. Oh, yeah for sure. We don't take these out. Uh
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
Thank you
Thank you guys so much for having me on i've been looking forward to this
I really enjoy watching every episode. Oh, we appreciate you watching
I mean there's and and thank you so much for coming on. I remember, uh,
You said something about coming up podcast and it blew my mind because I was like they will come on
I was like him will come on our podcast
The way I see this and as the scene as a whole is everybody
Right now especially is doing their part and it's benefiting everyone and you guys are really
Performing a service for the scene as a whole and we appreciate that and that's it's right in line with what we try to do
You know, it's like everybody says a whole rising tide lifts all boats, but I think that that's true
I believe that we work together
We're gonna be bringing lots of really cool stuff to fruition and you guys are playing a very big role in that
So I appreciate what y'all are doing. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, and we're and and this scene will blow up
It's too much funny. It's too much funny and people love funny and and once and they're already coming out
I mean
They're already coming out the shows once we get more eyes and everything
This thing is just gonna this thing is gonna bowl and hopefully get you some good clips and you can put out there
One thing, uh, I have to say though is that I I don't see a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
And you see let's see if we would have waited this long the air would have stale the crust on the bread and the whole
Experience would have been on that's true. You know, that's true
We can make a like a cooking show episode where I teach people how to do this
Now we should charge for this but we're not going to I mean the whole thing is if you wouldn't open your mouth about
How you're the best at it? There wouldn't be an issue on at all
We would have no problem at hand. Yeah, I gotta let him know though. You do gotta let him know. Thank you
Sci-fi can attest he had one and you're gonna you're gonna eat one after this
Well, I mean, you know, you see me, right? Yeah. Okay
We got we got we got we got to try this out because I I want to try one too
Because you say they got the best one your best. Yeah, I want to try. I'm not saying I'm telling
Oh, I'm telling you, you know how they say picture doesn't happen say me or it didn't happen
All right, kim, this is the end of the episode
So what you're gonna do right now is talk to this camera and have anything you want to promote and it'll be on the side
Of you just go to huntsville laughs.com
And look at everything that we have going on at shenanigans, please come to shows
Please tell everybody, you know because we're a non-profit so we can't afford advertising yet. We're working on that
Thank you arts huntsville
and just
Get out here show show up show up to stuff
Hell yeah, and it's k wilson comedy on all platforms by the way. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you
Thanks for coming on. It's been a pleasure. Hell yeah