A Little Bad Luck
Won’t Stop
Bret Ernst
By Gary Wien
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Growing up in New Jersey, comedian Bret Ernst moved around
an awful lot as a kid. He estimates
he attended about 15 different
schools before moving to Florida
for high school. As anyone who
was ever the new kid knows, it
can be a little rough; but, it also
helped him find his calling.
“When you’re the new kid, you
use your sense of humor to meet
people,” explained Ernst. “And
New Jersey Stage
when you’re standing in front of
the classroom that much, you sort
of get used to that feeling of being uncomfortable.”
Ernst admits to regularly being
the class clown and a trouble maker in school. He played sports all
of his life (even going on to play
football in college and try out for
an arena football team once) and
says he was that guy in the l ocker
room cracking jokes. He always
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