New Faces
Tuesday July 13, 2010
Jeez, I can finally spill the beans now. I will be performing in the 2010 Just For Laughs New Faces Showcase in Montreal. You don’t know how long I’ve had to bottle this up folks. Sorry to all the people I’ve lied to in the LA comedy scene the past few weeks. The festival threatened to kill my family if word got out. I was skeptical until they handed me a phone where I heard my dad scream, “They mean business!” before getting punched in the face.
It’s been quite a journey to get here. This was the 8th year I had auditioned for New Faces. They have tape on me since I was 18. I’m 26 now. Someone needs to make a time lapse of all my audition tapes. Being a New Face at the festival was the first goal I ever set for myself when I got into standup so it’s pretty fulfilling. The other goal I had that came later was being on TV in some artistic capacity rather than eating goat balls while being attached to a bungee chord for some reason. I get so caught up in the grind of doing standup that I sometimes forget about the accomplishments and how fortunate I’ve been. It’s really crazy to have hatched this plan as a teen in Seattle and see it unfold before my very eyes: do standup while in college, get a job as an engineer in SoCal upon graduation, work by day do standup by night until opportunities present themselves such that I can do comedy full time…and we’re here.
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does your comedy pay as well as your engineering job did? Just curious as I am the timid version of you. I am too scared to leave my job to pursue this full-time.
— SJ · Aug 1, 11:09 PM · #
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