No I.D.
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Comedy Through the Eyes of La Josh Preston
Ever wondered how stand-up comedy has transformed over the years? Join us as La Josh Preston, a humorous force from Southwest Virginia, takes us through his comedic journey from 1993 to now. La Josh has seen it all—from the bustling stages of Roanoke to the exhilarating experience of performing for Kenan Thompson. He talks about the evolution of comedy, highlighting how inclusivity has reshaped the field, urging comedians to abandon outdated norms like racism and bullying. Let La Josh's unique perspective enlighten you on the perseverance and authenticity required to thrive in the comedy world.
Get ready for a hilarious and heartwarming anecdote about La Josh's unforgettable opportunity to perform with Kenan Thompson's Funniest Comics. Discover how a video clip with Kenan became his personal badge of honor, convincing his family that his trip wasn't just about gambling in Atlantic City. La Josh shares how his distinctive jokes drew the attention of producers and audiences alike, proving that originality can set you apart even among comedy legends. He also reflects on the profound influence of comedy icons like DL Hughley and Bernie Mac, whose ability to unite diverse audiences continues to inspire his work.
Aspiring comedians, take note: La Josh brings valuable insights into the comedy grind, emphasizing the crucial role of open mics in honing one's skills. He shares tales of long drives for precious minutes of stage time and the relentless hustle to keep evolving as a comic. The Roanoke comedy scene, filled with challenges and camaraderie, has taught him the importance of staying true to oneself amidst competition and negativity. Join us to learn from La Josh's experiences and gather tips on making your mark in the ever-changing landscape of stand-up comedy.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the no ID Podcast. I have here with me comedian producer host MC creative. You've seen him working with Kenan Thompson's Funniest Comics. I never met this man before in my life, but I came across him on a Facebook ad and I've been a fan of his work since the one and only. La Josh Preston.
Speaker 2:I'm Facebook famous. I've heard that a couple of times. Probably man.
Speaker 1:You can heard that a couple of times. Probably you are man. You had the pose. It was like, it's like.
Speaker 2:That's showing the power. That's that power right there.
Speaker 1:I thought it was like the Michael Jordan, you know last dance. It was like yeah, like you know, like oh man Jordan, you know last dance, like yeah like you know, like oh man, I'm a I'm a fan of your work, man. I see what you're building up there in Northern Virginia. You're traveling and doing your thing, so it's great to see other comedians travel and do they thing. Man, how is the comedy scene up in Northern Virginia man?
Speaker 2:well, I'm in a place called Roanoke Virginia. It's actually Southwest Virginia, you know is that?
Speaker 1:Southwest okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, southwest Virginia here I am trying to make a scene here and it's been going well. I have three open mics that I do here in Roanoke and then I have one in Salem that I do, and usually with my open mics I usually have in Roanoke, and then I have one in Salem that I do, and usually with my open mics I usually have a feature comedian come and do show, do a show, or I'll even have a full show and do an open mic after the show. So so the comedians who are here in Roanoke can get what I call getting their reps in and just keep on practicing and practicing, because that's what you need in comedy you need to get on stage, for you to get better and better in this profession correct me, and I like everything that you're doing.
Speaker 1:I've never been to a place where they had actual show, and so you know what? We got an open mic as well, to right behind us, so that's actually pretty unique. That's actually pretty dope. So how long have you been doing comedy, josh?
Speaker 2:I started doing comedy in 1993 and I did it for eight years and because, being married and having to have a kid with my wife, it was very hard to be on the road and being a husband and a father, so I had to make a decision. So I made the decision to become a husband and a father, focus on that a whole lot more than comedy, and that's that. And then after that I, once the kids start being grown and be able to take care of themselves and stuff like that I was able in 2021, in October so it's been three years ago I was able to say you know what and this was pretty much after the pandemic I said you know what? I want to go back and do comedy again. So I talked it over with my wife. My wife was on board with it and so I started doing open mics in a place called the Idiot Box in Greensboro, north Carolina, because there was nothing here in Roanoke as far as open mics go.
Speaker 2:So I went there and met some great comedians from North Carolina and so I went there and did start doing open mics for, I'm going to say, about six months and then one of the the the owner there, just said hey, why don't you, instead of driving two hours to do open mics, why don't you just do open mics and rowing them?
Speaker 2:And I really never thought about doing it myself and I really never thought about doing it myself. But I said, but by her saying that, which gave me the confidence, because if, um, her name is Jenny Stencil from, uh, the Idiot Box, and she said, and for her to say something like that, it felt like that she had the confidence that in me to actually do it. So what? So she says it, I say, well, if she believes it, I'm gonna start believing it. So I went up and start doing open mics and just kept going there and then, from there, just start doing shows and was able to do my first show march of 2022 and I played some verses here and wrote and rolling overoke and bought a bunch of comedians from Virginia and North Carolina and then just took off from there yeah, for sure, that's what's up, man.
Speaker 1:And you said 1993 is when you started. So how was comedy then compared to now? Because now it's more censorship, more cancel culture.
Speaker 2:Gotta be this friendly and that that's so friendly yeah, you can say a lot more things back in 93 that you can say now. And I thought about, and when people talk about being canceled and stuff, and let's be honest, I mean, who's really being canceled because of something that they said? It's not, it's not really that. It's just people are using that cancel culture thing to pretty much boost them up because they feel like, oh, I'm going to say this and watch me get canceled. It's like, man, nobody's thinking about you. Right now there's just too much, too much comedy for anyone to focus on one person and cancel them like in 1993. Because right now people are so upset because they can't say like the f word or the r word and things like of that nature, but they like it back in the day when you could say that. But the reason why we can't say that now is because we as humans, we evolving. I mean we want here and say and we want to stop stuff like racism and bullying and things like that. But when it seems like when it comes to comedy, they're upset because we don't tolerate bullying and racism like we did back in the day. I think we're getting better as humans if we're not believing, if we don't want the racism and the homophobia, being a homophobe and being fat shaming and all this stuff. If we, as we as humans, don't want that around, why are we? Why should we accept it in comedy if they don't accept it in comedy? That means we're evolving as people, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, that's just my opinion. I, just like I always got, I'm always that person that I want comedy to be. I don't want it to be shock comedy. I don't want people to be just saying things to be offensive. No, we as humans, we should be past that. We shouldn't be doing that. We should be being creative. Our creativity is what makes comedy and people who are creative, they're soaring All these offensive people. We're tired of it. I mean, we're about to have an election and one person is nothing but a bully, talks about people and stuff like that. We don't like that when he does it. But people who are in comedy and they do it oh, you should. We shouldn't be censored, we should know you should be censored too. All right, because we don't want to hear that. We're here to have a good time and listen to funny jokes, creative jokes. That's what we're here for, not for all that bullying and homophobic and fat shaming things of that nature.
Speaker 1:We're not here for that I'm glad you said that, man, because when I first started I heard it and I was like I ain't doing that shit because I I can't do it because I have something called integrity and I want a legacy for my like. I have a legacy like I. If I was to have children, I don't want 10, 20 years from now, them kids see me using those type of words. Right, and I appreciate you standing up for that, because a lot of people don't realize the true essence of comedy is vulnerability and a lot of comedians focus on the crude humor. They do the shit excuse my language, I know you're not really a cuss accustomed, but they do the shit.
Speaker 1:That just seems like they're gonna get a laugh or it's gonna be like oh, make it cringe. But if you listen to I mean I know he had his, his flaws, like he listened to, like a richard pryor or eddie murphy or kevin hart, they were very vulnerable on their stage talking about their life experiences and stuff like that. It wasn't a lot of crude humor, especially Kev I've seen Kevin laugh before. I did not hear no crude humor whatsoever. All that dark word or the R word or the homophobia, none of that. I didn't hear it and I'm like, oh, thank you Somebody.
Speaker 2:Damn. Like I said, we're evolving it. As humans, everybody wants to. It seems like racism, just like with the racism and oh, I can't say racist jokes. No, we're grown people. Stop Stop with it, man. I mean there's a couple maybe racist jokes that you know you don't mean, you know people aren't offensive, but nobody's doing that. It was like what was it? Mickey Rooney or sitting there just talking about every kind of people? No, we have grown, we're tired of it and Can't live through it, man.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to go all around, because no idea is all around. We don't have one specific way now. You did work with the keenan thompson's funniest comics and you actually did a show with the keenan thompson experience, am I correct?
Speaker 2:how was that?
Speaker 1:how was that?
Speaker 2:it was a great experience and a lot of people. With the Kenan Thompson thing, people are always saying, oh, they're just using you for money and they're just. You know, you got to pay them to do all this stuff. You don't have to pay them anything If you're good. They're going to say, hey, can you do this show? And if you can, you can. If you can't, ok, we'll just wait for the next one, the Kenan Thompson one.
Speaker 2:He was there and I was picked by another producer in New Jersey. His name is Matt Bridgestone. They said pick comedians that would go up there and do a great job and for me, being from Virginia, I did a show with him in Bridgeport, connecticut, and he told me you are the only comedian that I can remember being funny. So he went and picked me, a guy from Roanoke Virginia, to do shows in Atlantic City in front of Kenan Thompson. I mean, I'm sure he had friends in New Jersey, probably in Pennsylvania, all around there, but he picked me from Roanoke Virginia and it felt real great. I felt honored doing that because I'm one of those comedians that I'm very rememberable. I'm not doing jokes that people wake up the next morning and be like man.
Speaker 2:What did he say? Because you get a lot of that. People say oh he was funny.
Speaker 2:Well, what joke did he say he was talking about? I don't remember. At least I know what my jokes people will remember. One or two of my jokes are like oh he does the DMX thing or the Martin Luther King thing or the trap baby. It's a lot of jokes that I do that people will remember it. And I just say with the Kenan Thompson, he was a very, very nice guy.
Speaker 2:I was the only person that was able to do a video with him because he was just sitting. He came, he was just sitting there and nobody was talking to him. I don't know if they were nervous or whatever. I just went up to him and said, hey, I explained myself. I said I introduced who I was. I said can I do a video with you? And I did it as a joke. So I want you to do a video with me so to prove to my wife and kids that I'm actually here with you doing a comedy show and not Atlantic City gambling up all the money.
Speaker 2:Because I love to gamble. I play blackjack and craps. That is my thing. That's why, if anybody's in Vegas, anyone who's in Atlantic City, anywhere where there's a casino, if you call me up and say, hey, would you like to do a show? Let's go, because I am there. And so we did a video. I showed it to my wife and kids and they were like, oh so you really are with him. Huh, because my wife loves SNL, I was glad I was able to do that for them.
Speaker 1:It is a blessing man. Yeah man, I remember when that thing first rolled out a couple of years ago. Actually, I got selected my dag on stuff. I just I don't know what. I had other projects going, but that's dope. Kenan Thompson, that man is a legend I'm talking about. We talk early 90s, mighty Duck, all that, fat Howard.
Speaker 2:That's right, that's right. I actually meet a celebrity of the now. A lot of people meet celebrities that were celebrities maybe 20, 30 years ago. To meet a celebrity that is a celebrity right now, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1:Now, when those celebrities are like yeah. I was hot back in the 80s.
Speaker 3:Hey, no Comic View six times. I wasn't no celebrity, I was hot back in the 80s.
Speaker 2:You don't definitely know me. I'm on Comic View six times. Now you're here with me doing a bar show.
Speaker 1:You get that so much. Man, who are some of your inspirations in comedy? Who was those comedians? Who was that comedian you's like? Why are you gravitated to more towards? You's like you know what? I gotta try this because you've been in different eras of comedy. You've been in the deaf comedy, jammed comic view era to the netflix special era. So who is? Who are those comedians?
Speaker 2:well, in the beginning it had to be dl hewley and bernie mack, and the reason why I say that is that I wasn't even planning on being a comedian. I I went to a comedy show in green. It was 1993, july 16th, I remember I went to a show. It was dl hewley and bernie mack and I sat there and I was just watching them being because before that they had a comedy contest and I believe a guy named Sherman Golden won. I was like, oh, he's just a new comedian starting out and he won this and he was able to go on tour. And I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. And then Bernie Mac and DL Hewley started doing their show.
Speaker 2:And what got me is that the people around it was black people, white people, latinos, asians, middle Easterners, it didn't. Rich, poor, they were male, female, it didn't matter. We were all sitting there laughing and having a good time. And I say this is the kind of atmosphere I want, because I'm a very diverse person. So I wanted that kind of atmosphere. You know, I want black people, white people, asian, rich, poor, tall, short, all people coming to my shows and that's why I'm pretty much, when it comes to doing my shows, I don't. I'm not the type it comes to doing my shows. I don't. I'm not the type of person to say just be a decent human being, that's what I want. Comics well, what kind of show should I do? I said just be a decent human being, that's all you. You know what? What? Um jokes that are gonna be people gonna be like offensive and stuff like that, that's all, that's all you want to be. And me watching them to perform and all those people laughing, don't matter who they were. I was like that's the kind of place I want to be. So I was like yo, I'm pretty funny. I got, I got a few jokes that, uh, I can think of. So I went and wrote.
Speaker 2:I remember july 17th, I wrote my jokes, some of my jokes, and I went to the Roanoke Comedy Club. They had open mics I believe it was on a Tuesday or a Thursday and I went there and tried out the jokes, got some laughs and the same people black, white, whatever were laughing. I was like see, this is what. That's what happened when I went to Greensboro. So I talked to the owner and he said keep coming back. Keep, that's what happened when I went to Greensboro. So I talked to the owner and he said keep coming back, keep coming back, keep coming back. And I, and that's what I did.
Speaker 2:And then about I say it took me about six months to it. Now, it took me about a year to feel real comfortable to start hosting and it took me about two years to feature and that's what I was I've been, I was doing so I guess you could say dl hewley and bernie mack the way they performed got me really started to come. But as for, uh, eddie murphy was the first person I seen do stand-up comedy. He was the first person because I wasn't.
Speaker 2:I loved sitcoms, I love, I like shows like martin and Living Single and all those different world Cosby Show. They were. It was funny, but also they had serious moments. So it wasn't always bang, bang, funny, funny, funny. It wasn't until I saw Eddie Mercury's Raw comedy where I saw whoa, there are people you can be funny like constantly. I mean it was when I say like over an hour, like an hour and a half, just being funny straight through. I was like, oh so so I started getting into standup comedy and start looking at other comedians like Richard Pryor and, uh, so so many George Carlin and people, people of that nature, and I started digging into stand-up comedy because of that.
Speaker 1:I just watched Delirious, probably for the third time this week and it was November 3rd, so obviously I've been watching it constantly because they had it free on Pluto and Raw is a genius thing. Now Bernie Mac is forever will be goaded as a beast. And dl hugley, I think when it comes to the original kings of comedy, he's a sleeper. Yeah, he's a sleeper. People don't realize that man already had two specials out prior to him actually doing def, not def comedy, jam, kings of Comedy. Like he had that third when HBO used to do those 30 minute blocks, a stand up special, and he had the going home joint when he wore that yellow canary suit cool guy.
Speaker 1:I got to open up for him once. Cool guy. But it was so amazing and I see it now like what I like about it like you was talking about being a decent human being is I appreciate that because, like I said, I see a lot of crudeness. I see a lot of undercutting, because I don't know if you experienced the undercut in road note, but it's like a lot of undercutting. It's like let me take six of my homeboys with them with me and I'm to put them on every show and the rest of y'all got to fend for yourselves. And I'm going to throw somebody the bone, but I don't want that person throwing a bone to be better than me, right?
Speaker 2:right.
Speaker 1:I'm going to shit on them.
Speaker 2:The problem I have at Roanoke is because I'm pretty much the only one doing comedy shows here. If there were no comedy, if I didn't do any comedy shows here in Roanoke, there'd be one open mic. That's done once every who knows two months. But since I'm doing the open mics and having people come on stage, I'm getting I don't even want to say it, well, I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it.
Speaker 2:I get a lot of hate here in Roanoke. But there's a lot of comedians that support me and they outweigh the hate, and so I'm just out here just doing my comedy show. I've told the comedians I know you don't like me, I know you don't Just go over there and just leave me alone, just let me be, and I'll be over here doing my comedy show. But the problem is is that they see what I'm doing and then they want to come in and undercut you. I don't know if you saw the thing on Facebook when I did the thing about Corey Holcomb, when he said these people will go through the front door if they could, and that's what they've been. It'd be.
Speaker 2:Just, I have been minding my business for doing my comedy shows, not messing with anyone. And here they come, going through my comedy shows and stuff and I'm telling them hey, man, if you want, if you want this to really work, we got to air some stuff out. But as soon as you try to air it out, they always got something to make it blame on you or saying that it's your fault. You're the reason why I had a comedian sit there and just say you're just mad, you're not booking me on your shows because you're just mad, because we're better than you, I don't book, you're not booking me on your shows because you're just mad, because we're better than you. And I said do you know what you're? What you're saying right now? So I'm not booking you on my show because you're better than me. So you know what you're saying? That all the people that I book on my show aren't better than me. And you're also better than everybody who ever booked on my show. That's what you're saying right now.
Speaker 2:And when I bring stuff back because when it comes to the Internet, people will say stuff on the Internet and they just think it's over, not with me. When you say something on the Internet, I'm going to respond. And if I meet you in person, I'm going to respond the same way. I keep that same energy, because I just did a show on Saturday, a comedy competition, and a person knows he doesn't like me, know I doesn't like him, but during the show, this dude going to try and stick out and shake my hand. No, keep that same energy that you do on Facebook or anywhere else on social media. Keep that same energy when we meet in person. That's it. Keep the same energy. Don't act like we're friends because you know we're not and just leave me alone. Let me do my open mics and my comedy and peace. Do your own thing, but they can't and it's I know.
Speaker 2:And I hate, I hate to be sitting here saying this and being on nagging and stuff, because I'm a very positive person, I like talking about good, good stuff and everything, but sometimes you got to sit here and say you know, enough is enough. It's time for me to stop being trying to be the bigger person all the time. I'm done being the bigger person. I'm going out here and I am going full force. Usually in Roanoke I was like okay, I got enough stuff in Roanoke, I'll let y'all get this or get that, do whatever.
Speaker 2:Now I'm at the point where you know what. I'm just going to just do everything, anything and everything possible to get more shows, to get more people on, because there are comedians here in Roanoke, virginia, that if they get enough reps, get enough time in their hands, they are going to be great. I say, give them like another year. They're going to be some great comedians coming out of Roanoke and I'm just trying to steer them in the right direction. This is what you need to do to get where you need to be, and hopefully they'll listen to me and they'll stay with me, stick with me and we can grow together, because that's what I want to do. I want to grow Roanoke. When there's comedy, people will say, hey, come to Roanoke, virginia, they got some good comedians there, you know. So that's, that's all I'm trying to do right now.
Speaker 1:That's my main thing you know there's some people that's out here listening and watching. This is my first time talking to Josh, so I'm gonna just say it seems like a very genuine thing, because as comedians right, you do see a lot of the undercuts and I have this saying that I use when I say everybody wants to be a big shark in a small pond and those big, wannabe big sharks are drowning consistently, consistently. The hate is real. The undercut is real. The beefs are fucking real. The beefs are real Cat whims.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:This shit is big beef People who are scared of cat and of you. Nobody knows what cat was popping up with and it was like, oh, cat tripping. No, it's legitimately real. I personally have had my beefs. I have one still floating in there, the rest of my squash, I have one floating to the point where I would not speak to this person at all. That person has bashed me for over a year and some change now online and to other people and all those people got on his side and just I was like you know what I know y'all at because I felt energy. But I noticed that when you do something big, the more the hate comes. You understand what I'm saying and they like what. They trying to figure out what you doing, right.
Speaker 2:The same comedians are sitting there saying that I'm jealous of them. I have performed in more states than they have done open mics this year. How am I jealous of you? I'm doing four comedy shows just by myself. What are you doing? And I left it like that? How am I jealous of you? What have you done? You get no response, but you'll get the hate, though.
Speaker 2:You'll get the hate, I'll get the hate I'm like I just laugh when people are saying that I'm jealous of them. Of what have you seen? Have you checked my resume and compare it to yours? Please explain why I'm jealous that too, that cricket.
Speaker 1:And then you know what's crazy is like. There's always those comedians that don't book work, not funny rush day process. Uh, don't post, so don't post comedy clips. I noticed that too. I'm not. I'm not, I'm not talking trash about nobody's not posting a comedy clip, but I want you comedians to listen to this when you submit for a comedy club or competition or a you submitting to an agency, booking agencies, whatever they always ask you two things what's your website and what is your social media handle? And if you don't have anything on your social media handle, they will not be like well, I don't know if he do comedy or not. All I just see is a fly he be doing a fly to making chicken wings and a fly he could be doing a fly to making chicken wings and rolling over chicken wings. I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 2:They'll do still pictures. You don't hear them. It's just a bunch of still pictures posing.
Speaker 1:With a motivational video, a motivational music playing in the background. I came up from the ground Once you put Wi-Fi in the background. I came up from the ground Once you put Wi-Fi in the microwave it turns up a little bit. I'm like what, let us know you do comedy.
Speaker 2:Now we're here Playing in the background.
Speaker 1:Come on, man. Oh yeah, I had seen one comedian here in the 757 who legitimately will repost Drewski skits. She will repost a Drewski skit. They was like man. She got over 60,000 followers. I'm like bro. It's algorithm. If Drewski is popping right now, if she reposted him, it's more than likely they're going to go to her page and think that's Drewski is popping right now. If she reposted him, it's more than likely they're going to go to her page and think that's Drewski, that's what he's doing. You are falling for it.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:That frustration is real with some people, like the YouTube, just Jokes do get stolen. Some people do end up sounding like it's nothing but a genuine conversation. So a lot of times it's just a mistake because you're around each other, but that's another conversation. It's like yeah, it was relaxed, man, it's not that deep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the YouTube comedian. I have no problem with the YouTube comedian. Only thing I have a problem with are the people that's doing Walmart pranks and they think they're original. I say, hey, walmart pranks. And they go and do the same Walmart prank that someone else did and you're trying to tell me these are original. And when you go on stage, you're trying to tell me that you're doing original comedy when you can. When you go on stage, you're trying to tell me that you're doing original comedy where you can. When you go on YouTube, all you do are Walmart pranks that you've seen other people do. And just because you went Target doesn't mean it's not a Walmart prank. It's still a Walmart prank. Don't care if you went Food Lion, it's still a Walmart prank.
Speaker 2:All these people and it's funny, every thumbnail got a person with a big ass, a woman with a big ass. That's their thumbnail right there so you can click on it. Get out of here, man. Oh, this the gold digger prank. Everybody got a gold digger prank. The dude, can you borrow some money? Oh, no, then they hop into one of these nice cars. Oh, that's your car. I'm like like I know y'all ain't trying to think that this is we think this is real. Right, I know you're not trying to act. This is this is you know this is fake, but there's some people that just try to act like that. This is real, this is, this is how it really happens, like, yeah, she, you even put a microphone on her too at that time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was yeah we didn't see the tripod with the camera set up on down the way that's getting different angle cuts. You know this is what it is. What's some advice that you would give? Well, you already said be a decent human. What's some other advice you would give to a comedian or somebody looking at getting into comedy? What advice would you give them?
Speaker 2:I would write your own jokes. That's, that's the main thing. Don't don't look at one person's joke and be like, oh, if he just changed, if I just change it like this, I can use it as my own. No, it's their joke. Be original, be creative, that's the one thing. And two go to open mics, go.
Speaker 2:I started with my open. I drove two hours and people are saying you drive two hours just to do five minutes. Yes, I would drive three hours, I would drive four hours. I will drive If I got a chance to do an open mic. If I'm sitting at home like man, there's nothing to do. Kids are sitting there playing video game. Wife is watching tv. You know what? I'm gonna just go to an open mic. If I just find out where's an open mic and I'll just go there, I'll just pop up and that's what I tell people. Go to open mic. People sit here and I think they're too good to do open mics.
Speaker 2:There's people that wonder why they don't get booked like. There's one person that actually came to me and said how come you don't book me for your show? And I say because you, where are you working? You're not working anywhere. I don't see you at any open mics. I don't see you doing any shows. So if you're not working, I'm not going to book you. I'm booking the people that are working out here doing the job, doing what they need to do to get ahead.
Speaker 2:Because I'm thinking, if you're not working and you want to get booked, if you go do a show you're gonna to me. You're gonna just do hacky comedy, you're just gonna do, or you're gonna do, comedy that you did two years ago. I mean you have. There's no growth. I tell. I tell comedians all the time see what you've done in one year compared to like last year and compared to what you did this year. Compare the two and see if you've gotten any better. Nine times out of 10, they haven't even gotten any better. They're just doing the same jokes over and over again. At least with me, when I do do a joke, I will do one joke and then next year it could be the same joke. But I've changed stuff around. I've used different names. It's a longer set. Usually you do a joke it's like only one minute. Now it's four or five minutes. I've constantly tried to improve even the old jokes that I do. I constantly improve those jokes.
Speaker 1:No-transcript you got a big fix. You got to have those different styles Clean. Church clean, corporate clean, church clean is that right there? I'm still learning, that's a beast. Church clean, club club clean. You got theaters clean. You got theaters. It's like different ones. I can do both. You know how. You was a kid and you heard that song on the radio that had all the cuss words in it. But you're in the car with your mom and you don't want to cuss you all the cuss words. Instead of saying ass, you say butt or handy or something. I'm like, yeah, that's what I'd be. I'd be like I gotta do it that way, but I dare you. I dare you. Josh brother, I really appreciate the interview, man, and the time that you took with everything. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. That's big facts. If the people want to find you, man, how can they get in contact with you? See your stuff, what can they look for you at? Okay,
