There are so many things. That seems a li ttle suspect. A little gri fter-y. When you say cabaret, w hat do you mean? Y ou moved be cause you have to. All roads lead to LA. I find that very encouraging. No one is more critical about stand — up than other stand — ups. She was on Jimmy Kimmel, but did she do stand — up? Is that a credit? How can you be truthful in your voice and do comedy in a way that excites you?
I have two reactions as I listened to this. By nature of being a comic, you have to b e doing different stuff anyways. Some people love that. I get the fact that people have to pay the bills.
In terms of doing stand — up for other stand — ups, you were saying having pe ers who are writers and so on n ow. These peer effects, these generational effects are present in academia also. People I went to graduate school with during the same time period, we were assistant professors together and beyond. You get invited to give talks. Y ou get opportunities that come from your network.
In that way, it does matter. F unny is funny. F unny always rises to the top and you can be successful without any of the bullshit. Other people have to recommend you for things. Other people have to book you, other people have to bring up your name.
There are plenty of funny people who are a lot easier to deal with , work with and get along with. Speaking of Mike Re iss , this story came up in the conversation. How many people is that? It seems like it woul d be a big room. The day I visited him, it was just him, another person and a PA. He works in more of a consulting role and doing punch ups. Any case, he was saying that maybe t hey had one and a half bad days in the entire run of the show, where it was combative and so on.
Let me just think about it. He went home and talked to his wife about it. I need to go. With stand — up comedy, you succeed on the goodwill of your fellow comics. When they come to visit your city, you can help them get spots. I started stand — up. I started with my best friend , Madiso n. It was a hot show for a little bi t, and so p eople wanted to be on this show. We were booking women of color, men of color, queer people, disabled comics.
That was the focus of the show because we saw s uch a lack of diversity on the E ast side where we started doing stand — up or just in stand — up in general. I want to know who the other black comics are. I want to know who the queer comics are because there are so few of us and we still rarely get booked together. I know twenty of them. W henever there are opportunities to submit maybe a writing packet, like the SNL writing packet or stand — up , NBC or something like that.
I share that with this network that I am now connected to because the more of us that show up, the more they have to recognize and make space for us. For me , representation is really important and having those voices be seen and heard. Sharing resources is important. Sometimes people will complain about shows not booking them or these people and stuff like that.
Any lone genius story you look at and you find an uncle, a mom, a frien d, a partner, a team, a teacher, this or that, that has contributed. This lone genius may head a group, but they still need the group. We need the group. You see that, especially in comedy. Entertainment loves a yo ung breakout success. They started comedy when they were sixteen. They love to romanticize this idea of this genius ahead of their time that just had it from day one. Let me get you stage time.
How can I help you? How can I be your mentor? Have you thought about? I was listening to a n interview with Nikki Glaser where she was talking about roasting people. My roast b attle , one of my good friend s , Paige Wesley , i s an amazing roaster. Any good writer knows that you need feedback. To be successful, you need others. I was a teenage boy, so I engaged in roast battles before they were called roast battles.
It was called busting , b ust on each other. Is that in front of a pack of black teens? Actually, y es. What is so special about the Belly R oom too? The world — famous Comedy S tore. We actually do a bit of a p rofile of it in chapter two of The Humor Code. There are three rooms. The Belly Room is upstairs. You basically look out in the darkness as a c omic.
Two comics going head to head , joke for joke. Have you done it? Ye ah. I used to do roast battle pretty often.
The thing about roast battle is it does take away a lot from stand — up writing. I really love roast battle. I was battle ranked after my first one. If you wer e going to roast me right now, w hat would you say? I would like to leave still in your good graces. It was probably for the best. I could just tell you w hether that group of black teen boys were worse than you. The reason I love it is at least you know what makes it special in LA comedy is that I only roast people tha t I genuinely think are funny, that I like.
Why would you give them that? Come on now. The best roasts, I think, feel like teasing versus bullying. No one wants to see a bully.
O ftentimes she does because her jokes are killer. My friend , H ana Michels , is so funny. The pen is mightier than the sword. F rankly , people talk about PC culture. The roast battle is truly a safe space. It is the safest space in comedy for c omedians because nothing is off. Maybe not for the audience, but for the comics doing it , truly anything and everything is on the table. I f I was at a regular show and someone was intro — ing me with the things people say at roast battle , the judges were saying those things.
T hey provide commentary after the battle for the main event. They score each round. Usua lly, main events are three rounds. Your face, y our eyes are getting wider and wider. Does someone want to say something sexist at me? I think one thing, besides the rule thi ng, which makes good sense, t h at there are these ground rules. There are grand rules , a ll original material and a fterwards you hug.
Every battle ends with a hug. In roast battle , you go tit for tat. The reciprocity probably helps also. Truly, I stay away from fandoms. Thigh Gap Comedy ran for a successful four years and now continues to write and perform solo.
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Too often with minority performers, monetizing trauma is what is demanded. Perez always wanted to be an actor, even before becoming disabled, taking voice and dance lessons from a young age. But it surprises her now that she wanted to enter the industry at all considering the lack of representation.
She explained that even in elementary and middle schools it was obvious there were unconscious biases about who was allowed to be a leading lady.
Even if Perez were to watch Spanish-language novellas, she was aware that those cast were predominately white or light-skinned. A night watching stand-up comedy inspired Perez to get onstage herself. People were laughing. Perez told about being at The Improv when she was talking to an older comedian.
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