No I.D.
No I.D. was created as a different outlet to give flowers to the guests as well has give out jewels to the listeners. No I.D. is a thought provoking and in-depth podcast that offers multiple perspectives. on subjects ranging from sex to controversial topics to race to lifestyle covering all cultural conversations and building a platform to educate but encourage viewers to engage. No I.D. is candid unscripted with the Host/Creator/Comedian Jerome Davis.
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From Open Mics to Center Stage with Tyrone Burston
Ever wondered how a comedian's first headlining gig feels after a decade of grinding? Meet Tyrone Burston, the man with a story that’s bound to tug at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone. Tyrone takes us behind the scenes of his emotional journey to the spotlight, sharing how personal losses and life’s hard knocks pushed him to embrace comedy with unmatched passion. Alongside Tyrone's narrative, I also recount my rollercoaster experience auditioning for America's Got Talent, reflecting on the grit and heart required to chase a dream in the cutthroat world of entertainment.
But that's not all! Dive into the nitty-gritty of what it takes to build a successful comedy career. From the awkward silences of your early stand-up days to mastering the art of reading the room, we uncover the secrets of crafting material that genuinely makes you laugh. Tyrone shares invaluable insights on resilience and self-belief, emphasizing the importance of creating humor that resonates with your soul. As we wrap up, we celebrate Tyrone's journey and anticipate his future triumphs, potentially gracing platforms like Netflix or Hulu. Don't miss the chance to follow Tyrone on social media and YouTube, and join us in applauding his relentless dedication and inspiring path to success.
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ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of no id podcast. It's me, your host, ron davis. I have here up-and-coming comedian icon, businessman, mentor, headliner, the creator of bursting with comedy brand, the one and only tyrone bursting how you doing today, brother doing good, rome.
Speaker 2:Hey, thank you so much for having me. That was a great intro. That's what you do, man. You know. I said I've been watching your podcast. I love them, but your intros be fire, bro oh, man appreciate that man yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:So we were talking earlier. Um, some people don't know this, but tyrone's been doing this for 10 years. He's headlined, he got experienced the the headliner comedian role, that for a weekend, and it's gonna be plenty more weekends coming up in the future anyway, how was that experience, though, brother?
Speaker 2:I mean, it was just. It was like, um, I don't know, man. It's like you know, sometimes we have dreams, right, but the dreams are not vivid enough for you to regurgitate them. But it's like having a beautiful dream or something that you've been reaching for your whole life and you finally step into it. It's I can't even describe the feeling bad. It just it felt like I was supposed to be there. It didn't feel like a mistake, the moment didn't feel too big. But just to let everybody know, you know, I'm just a regular comedian like Rome Davis. I just got more skin in the game as far as how long I've been doing it.
Speaker 2:But you know, as a comedian, your goal is to do weekends at comedy clubs and to be the marquee, to get people to come out and say, man, I want to see Rome Davis, let me get four tickets real quick. You know what I'm saying. So, to live in that moment, man, it just meant the world to me, man. You know, I think on the way to the club I really didn't know that I was the marquee headliner. I thought I was filling in for maybe a feature or a host.
Speaker 2:The way it all worked out and how I originally got the phone call, I didn't know what was going on, I just knew I needed to be at that club before the show started, you know, and as time went on and they started sending me links and asking me for my bio and a headshot. When it finally came through my phone, man, I was crying on the way to the venue. Man, because it was one of those feelings where you know, like, thank you, god, you know, for listening to my prayers and throwing me a bone making, letting me get the feel, you know, it's all about getting that feeling, man yeah, what shit did I do?
Speaker 1:let me see.
Speaker 2:I'm back back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, hopefully everything going good. But we'll get my homeboy to chop it up. We'll get it chopped up. So I've had that experience. One time February, and I did America's Got Talent Shuffle it up. I've had that experience. One time February, I did America's Got Talent. I actually auditioned, auditioned and then I went to California. That joint was so surreal. I ain't crying in the airport, but when I got to the hotel room, I'm going to cry when I get into the room, man.
Speaker 1:I cried in that hotel room rec. I like, oh, I made it got home close to the picture up and it's like cool man and you've been doing this 10 years 10 years it'll be.
Speaker 2:It'll be 11 on august 18th of this year, so I started august 18th of 2013, so I'm going into my 11th year, man for sure, yeah, it's been a beautiful ride, beautiful journey, man, I wouldn't change anything that I've done, uh, up until this point, for sure, man. And the time fly by too. Rome, I know you like what? Five, maybe five years, in five, six years five and yeah six, yeah. Yeah, man, you got to think from the.
Speaker 1:You can tell I've been doing it. You can see that hairline just going back. Oh, man, going back this person's browsing just a little technical difficulties, people. It's okay, man, but good guy, I'm back.
Speaker 2:I don't know why, yo I got I got at&t u-verse. I don't know why, yo, I got AT&T U-verse. I don't know why they doing me like that. They're making me feel like I ain't got good internet.
Speaker 1:I use the word for AT&T. I'm going to let you know. You got OK, I'm just messing. You got OK, internet, that's OK Do you remember that first? Time you touched that stage? What made you decide to get into comedy?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah. So that's a good question, man. I think, um, my inspiration came like right before I started doing comedy. Man, I was actually diagnosed, bro, with child support. You know I'm saying so. Yo, I got hit with it like maybe six months into my comedy career, and then my ex-wife at the time she ain't want to deal with me, no more.
Speaker 1:So I can still see and hear you, but it's doing it again all right, we good yeah we good okay, bet, all right.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, my brother-in-law was shot and killed. We went to the funeral services back home um, I think a best friend. I went to high school with my friend, james moore. He passed away like a week after that. So, just dealing with with that type of death man and that sadness on my way home to Charlotte, I just promised myself that I would never waste an opportunity to do something that I know God gave me the talent for. So I started doing comedy like five months after they passed away. So that happened in March of 2023. And I started doing comedy of August that year. That was my first time on stage in August and I always been funny.
Speaker 2:I was the class clown in high school. I did the morning announcements in my high school. I was just the guy to go to if you wanted to have a good time in class, man. So I was always popular in school for just cracking jokes and being funny. I've been doing that since like the fifth grade. By the time I got to high school, I had perfected how to get on the last teacher's nerves, man, and just get kicked out of class all the time. I was really good at that. You know what I'm saying. So I got a huge support system back home. When you know you're meant to do something, people always tell you, like man, I've been telling you you should have did comedy and this is your lane man, I know you're going to good and and all this stuff. So it ain't something that I'm forcing myself to do. It's something that naturally just comes to me by just being funny, whether I'm on stage or off stage.
Speaker 1:Man, I just always been good at it yeah, because I watched a couple of your clips. Man, it's just like a natural poise, it's like you're just having a conversation and everybody's like man, what uncle tyrone about to say you like that one uncle at the reunion, he like yo, you know, if he come around, you know you guaranteed to get something. Who was someone like the comedians that you looked up to coming up?
Speaker 2:yep, talented comedian yeah alright, james, I'm back or Rome, I don't know why. I want to call you Jerome James Davis that's the most slavery.
Speaker 1:Black name old man name all right, so you looked up the talent.
Speaker 2:Talent was the first comedian yeah, he was the first guy I ever seen on tv that just did it differently. You know I'm saying I wasn't interested in doing stand-up back then. I think I was like maybe 13 years old at the most, 13 14. So he just stuck out to me as somebody that was different and cool. You know, I'm saying like if I had to do comedy I would do it in that demeanor. You know I was saying he had his own style, his own little, and he held a beer when he was on stage. All that was just so different to me. You know what I'm saying. So it's cool to come full circle now and be doing comedy and just always trying to innovate ways in my own style to just be different from the first couple of comics you may have seen that night. I'm just always trying to have my own style talking, my own voice and things like that. But yeah, I thought talent was a huge inspiration.
Speaker 2:But when you move down South, you know I'm from up North. So when you come down South and white comedians ask you that question and I say talent, they have no idea what I'm talking about. You know what I mean. They like. So who's some of your favorite comics. I'm like you know talent and they look at that and be like, yeah, I mean they should definitely have talent, you know, but who do you admire, like, who do you?
Speaker 2:So I had to learn that you know white people and black people don't watch the same stuff. So for a long time, unless a black comedian is asking me, I can't even really answer that question. You know, I just tell white folks, like, look, I inspire myself. Okay, I never looked up to anybody, but my mom, all right, I'm just, I'm here trying to make it like you guys, all right, I just I don't know what to tell them, man, but on the flip side, I don't know none of their comics either. You know what I'm saying. When they be naming big time, amazing white comedians, they be shocked. I don't know. You know what I'm saying. Like sometimes you just stay in your own little community bubble or your culture and it is what it is. I know some of them, but I don't be knowing all of them. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you saying talent man, because every comedian I've interviewed always hit me with yeah man. I was watching Def Comedy, jam and Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 2:I'm like bro, you 19 years old, you mean. The other day you watched Nick hey, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1:It's on Tubi bro, it's not Dang. As far as white comedians man, I tell this all the time. Blue Collar Comedy 2 was my start into comedy.
Speaker 1:I love Jeff Foxworthy, but hey, you know what I mean. I keep it quiet. That's funny, bro. Hey, man, all right. But, like I said, talent, talent, yeah, talent was dope. I was watching the other day for you, two people out there, that's what. What's up, man, you remember? Because you're building a brand right now. Right, you're building the Bursting with Comedy brand. How is that looking? How is that on a day-to-day basis? Because I know you're consistently grinding? I saw the post the other day where you said your wife helped you out with the funny call.
Speaker 1:It was like you just got your team going on, so how's that looking?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just letting it come together on its own for real. It's not like I'm handpicking individuals to help me work. My wife is. I joke around and call her my manager, but she really is, for real. You know what I'm saying. She's taking on that title and trying. If you were to ask me to do a comedy show, I would have to run it by my wife first. You know what I'm saying. To make sure it fits our schedule. You know what I'm saying. To make sure we got enough t-shirts for sale. So she ordered the t-shirts. If I'm going out of town by myself, she does all of the logistics. You know what I'm saying. She'll grab me the hotel that's close to the venue, She'll make sure I'm renting a vehicle and she'll do all the logistics, all the behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 2:But the brand bursting with comedy is something I came in with from day one. Just my last name being burst in me doing comedy. I just thought it made sense as a you know, holistically speaking, as a brand. It just made so much sense. So now you know, after doing that weekend and Raleigh and then being accepted into the Asville Comedy Festival, I'd already been headlining a couple of times with some venues with the comedy zone and getting some bookings to the funny business I'm featuring for them right now.
Speaker 2:So I mean, I got bursting with comedy. I'm over here looking at my desk. I got notebooks, I got pens, I got coffee mugs, I got t-shirts, I got chapstick. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm starting to think like I could just slap my logo and brand on anything on everyday household items, bro. So it's it's amazing to see it grow so rapidly within these last like you know, 30, 40 days. I've been hitting it hard just trying to think of ways to, you know, increase my worth online and in person with some of these people that I'll be meeting here soon.
Speaker 1:And I just listened to some. You just said you have your bookings through your agency and that took 10 years. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And it ain't like. It ain't like. I got an agent, you know what I'm saying. There's all these little mom and pop agencies, you know. You got your big dogs who who oversee, like Desi Banks and Ryan Davis and all these big name comedians, and then you got the mom and pop agencies that book really, really great shows at these bars and lounges across the country. So it's like you always hear, it's levels to comedy. You know what I'm saying. It's levels to everything.
Speaker 2:And I'm just kind of starting now, even though I'm 10 years in, I'm getting my feet wet within some of these stages within comedy. So that's why the Asheville Comedy Festival is so sought after and it's such a huge opportunity to be a part of, because for once in your career you'll be seen by industry folks. You know I'm saying like vice presidents of comedy clubs, the bookers, the owners, you know all these people that could change a comedy career trajectory will be there to see you. And it's not a competition style based festival. You're not trying to come in first place and out you All right.
Speaker 2:All right mic check, mic check we back we bet we back man.
Speaker 2:But yeah, man, 10 years man, I just I want to be an inspiration to new comics. Either way, either you look at me and be like man that never be me, it'll never take me 10 years to to do what he doing or, you know, saying, if you need some motivation or a little inspiration, you could look at my career and be like man. I kind of like the trajectory he on. You know what I'm saying. He toured with, you know, adele Givens and he did all these things and it looked like he booming, he getting paid. So you know, I want to be an inspiration on both ends of that spectrum, for regardless. But it do take a lot of work, man, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1:Thank you. Thank you for dropping that next gem right.
Speaker 1:so it do take a lot of work and I have a model I said um, in order to to be a comedian, you actually gotta do comedy and not just watch it. So you grinded it out for 10 years and we get some cats that come. Well, I'm in virginia that's only been doing it six months and haven't had that solid five minutes of substance behind their jokes. There's no. You can hear the rambling, or they don't know how to pivot and change if one joke is a little flat, or they got a dead silence. How do you combat that? Or what have you learned in those 10 years? To come, we probably don't get dead silence anymore. You know how to read the room. Come, we probably don't get dead silence anymore.
Speaker 2:You know how to read the room I mean, it can't happen if you're doing new material for sure, so that that that never goes away. No matter how big of a comedian you are, you're gonna fall flat somewhere somehow, just depending on where you at, how the crowd feeling. But but to me I would tell new comics man, always write in the perspective of you know you're writing this joke because you think it's funny. You know what I'm saying, like it genuinely made you laugh as an individual, I think, as new comedians sometimes. You know, even when I was a new comic, I used to make the mistake of always trying to write material in hopes that the crowd will get it, or, man, I hope they think this is funny, or I really hope this works. You know what I'm saying. But you got to write it in a reverse type of manner to where you only write.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, we back, all right we back?
Speaker 2:yeah, man, you always gotta you do the material that genuinely makes you laugh, man, instead of trying to be so clever to where you think these people will get it, because you don't really know who you're performing for until you get to the venue, unless you are a celebrity for real. So that's how I would combat silent moments or having the moments on stage where you bomb and ain't nobody laughing or nothing. You just got to stay true to yourself and make fun of the fact that you did a joke that didn't do. Well, you know what I'm saying. Like, you got to do that as a comedian. I love comedians that can make fun of theyself when they are in them. Silent moments at the open mics or whatever. You know what I'm saying. Like do a joke, it don't work, and then say something about the joke not working. I, I love comics. That could do that, man, because I'm that type of comic. I ain't just gonna sit in those we do, we do, man dog.
Speaker 1:I think I had silence one time so bad it felt like I was Queen Latifah and set it off like I was. Just that song played in my head. It was like I was like no, I know a bro. There's no way I was like I'm done usually like to keep the interviews around 20-21 minutes because you know now, with this attention span of everything that's going on, everybody's looking for that first minute and a half or that first, whatever clip.
Speaker 1:But I one appreciate the patience that you had with me. I appreciate the interview and I appreciate the patience that you've had with me. I appreciate the interview and I appreciate the jewels that you've been dropping in this, in this realm, and you know I'm looking forward to maybe in a year or two They'll tell Ron Burstyn got a Netflix special coming out or you guys some dropping out on Hulu. Hell, I even take to be at this point, but I just know that you're doing your thing, brother, and I appreciate you so much. Man, I really do. It was great to actually pick somebody's brain that's coming up and is just doing the grind. You actually see it, not just on a, a social media, but you can actually see it. You know, I would say in person, but through conversation, man, but if the people want to follow you or they want to get um more insight, where do they go?
Speaker 1:Thank you you in facts still a talent, talent. Yes, make sure you guys support Tyrone and all his ventures. Click the links in the bio, subscribe, like, share, comment, repost. I do appreciate everything, brother, and you can follow me comedian Rome, all social media platforms. No, id media TV is the YouTube channel, but if you click the link in my bio it will give you the website with the email list and everything so you can know what's going on. All right, let's go ahead and sign off.
