knew he wanted to be a comedian, he just didn’t know how to actually enter comedy. So, he developed his own method. He went
to karaoke nights and hijacked the
microphone to do comedy bits
and talk to the audience.
“I had no idea what open mics
were,” said Ernst. “When I moved
back to Florida after college, I was
trying to figure out what I wanted
to do. I was thinking of doing
comedy because I had done college radio and was always writing jokes and stuff. The one day
I ran into someone that said they
were a comic. I said how do you
do that? They told me to just go
to open mics. I was just about to
do it when I got a letter in the mail
from a kid I knew. He was in New
York and he said I should really try
standup comedy. It was someone
I was friends with, but not best
friends with. For him to write me,
I took it as an omen and from that
point on I haven’t stopped.”
His biggest break to date was
being one of four comedians featured in Vince Vaughn’s Wild West
Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30
Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland. Ernst was in the show along
with Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparu-
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