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A stand-up can write a good joke, butgreatjokes are up to the audience.
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I hate the fact that people think that anybody can do what comics do, which is definitely incorrect.
So I found that I was the same as when I was a kid.
So this is just a place that I was a little more charismatic and jovially sarcastic.
He asked me what I was going to do when I got out.
I never even believed it, like, thats not what theyre gonna do.
Because he knew how I started.
I was the SSI, which is basically a glorified janitor for this closed-custody block.
The library comes and drops off books or whatever.
They get fed in their cell.
They do everything in their cell.
So Im the janitor for this particular closed custody.
So when I became the SSI, I used to check that that the block was clean.
I always had the block smell like the pine oil that we had to clean up with.
I would mop the run.
I would see to it that they had fresh underwear.
And I watchedMartinwith the intensity of a psychopath.
I would watch and almost know every line on this show.
Then right before I get off, Id be like, Its TV time!
And I would perform every episode ofMartin.
I would do all the characters.
So Im Martin, Tommy, Cole, Gina, Pam.
I would talk about the officers.
And they would just listen and laugh.
That was my introduction into what I was thinking stand-up was.
It was actually a lot.
I couldnt believe how this story took off and how people felt this story.
And this was at a time where I dont think … people were talking about prison reform.
It was just a good story to tell at that particular junction.
And then I started feeling the weight of it.
Who you think I am, fam?
Now Im like,See?
This is why I dont do this pop in of material.
Because people start to think thats what you are.
Would I be in this position?
Cause I wasnt seen as a prison person when I was in prison.
Me and Tim Allen are viewed different.
Nobody even asks Tim Allen about prison time.
Man, it definitely has taken the weight off of my shoulders of hiding.
You hide in plain sight.
You give a shot to be very elusive and not be seen as much as you should.
Im trying to utilize what Ive been through to help people from the position of I was there.
To tell people who may be doing wrong things, Hey, man.
This is what youre in for.
And Im not going on what I heard; Im going on what Ive done.
Its helped me a lot to be able to pay back some of my debt to society.
I still think that I owe society something.
Just that realization of just knowing that you took something away in society; you damaged your neighborhood.
So you kind of owe your neighborhood something.
You owe them better representation of a decent human being.
And thats what I give a shot to do with my comedy.
Its given me that lane to kind of pay back some of my moral debt to society.
