about a week after I started dating
the girl who wound up being my
wife and I began doing open mics.
The rest, as they say, is history.
How long were you a teacher?
I taught for 7 years. I had been
teaching for 2 when I started doing open mics, so there were 5
years of overlap. But my plan
wasn’t to be a full-time comedian
or writer, the plan was to teach
high school and do stand-up on
the weekends.
Did you begin getting too many
gigs or too tired on Monday
mornings? A combination of the
two. I was getting more and more
gigs and I went on a college try
out and wound up booking like
30 gigs from it, which paid me
about as much as I would have
made from a year of teaching high
school. This gave me the guts
to say, “If I do this and it doesn’t
pan out, I can always go back and
teach.”
There were also more and more
weekdays when I would come
to school and say, “I’m not sure
we’re going to do anything today, I’m really tired.” And then I
got on Showtime. I did a show
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