AcadianaCasts Presents:
AcadianaCasts Presents:
Lafayette Comedy: Building a Festival from the Ground Up with JP Leonard
This week we’re joined by JP Leonard — the man behind Lafayette Comedy and the driving force turning Lafayette into one of the South’s top destinations for stand-up. From booking national acts like Shane Gillis and Tom Segura to hosting local open mics, JP shares how he built a thriving comedy scene from scratch… all without making eye contact on stage.
We also dive into the first-ever Lafayette Comedy Festival, happening August 7–9 at Club 337 and Gator Cove. JP opens up about the stress, strategy, and stubborn passion it takes to pull off ten shows in three days — featuring headliners like Casey Rocket, Kerryn Feehan, Marcella Arguello, and Shane Torres.
This one’s full of hilarious stories, honest insight, and JP’s hard-won advice for creators: “Don’t half-ass anything, whole-ass everything.”
Festival tickets + show info: LafayetteComedy.com
AcadianaCasts Presents: JP Leonard
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This is a big one, bringing in the national headliners that you don't get normally this many people in one weekend, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be great for Lafayette and great for comedy and I hope people can support it. Glad to have you on, carter Semino, host of Acadiana Cast Presents. If you want to get into the podcast game content creation game it's all a game, folks, but we can help you win it Go to AcadianaCastcom to learn more. Wherever you are in your content creation journey, we can help you out A full turnkey service for making the best quality content right here in Acadiana, servicing the whole South Louisiana area. Once again, go to AcadianaCastcom, make sure to like subscribe to wherever you're watching or listening to the show so we can help grow this show and get it out to a wider audience, get some bigger and bigger guests.
Speaker 2:But we have a great one today. It is our friend JP Leonard from Lafayette Comedy. Jp is a friend of the show and he's one of the most important people for the comedy scene in Louisiana. He's a stand-up himself, so he knows the game, but he also is just such a fan and wants to put on not only local comedians but also give people here in Louisiana access to some big national touring comedians. He's had folks like Mark Norman come in before, shane Gillis, tom Segura, nate Bargatze, all kinds of great, great comics over at Lafayette Comedy and he's here to talk about the upcoming Lafayette Comedy Fest, the inaugural Lafayette Comedy Fest happening August 7th, 8th and 9th at Gator Cove and Club 337. We're going to talk all about that, talk about JP's upbringing down in Morgan City and the world of stand-up comedy today and the trials and tribulations of having to put on shows. So I hope you guys enjoy it. Acadiana Cast presents JP Leonard, who's headlining this festival.
Speaker 1:So there's four headliners Casey Rockett this could be the Thursday, on Friday it's Karen Feehan, marcella Orguello, so there's two separate shows, and then on Saturday, shane Torres is the other headliner.
Speaker 2:We should probably say that JP Leonard is here with us today, although I already told you that in the intro. Yeah, but he's from Lafayette Comedy guys. He's been on the show before, one of the reasons why Lafayette is the premier comedy location in Louisiana. This man and he's bringing a new festival to Lafayette hopefully.
Speaker 1:Well, it's happening, no matter what. Yeah, I don't know, unless something happens, unless a hurricane comes through, that would probably save me money. But no, it's happening. Lafayette Comedy Festival our one we did like a little improv two festival. Last year we did a 420 fest just because we had like a bulk of shows on 420 weekend. If you know 420, shout out. But no, um, yeah, we um decided to do like I've been. This has been in planning since pre-covid and I just didn't really. Covid sidestepped it and everything, and so I kind of waited and decided, all right, this is the year and uhpped it and everything. I kind of waited and decided, all right, this is the year, I planned it. You know how the world's been going this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's get some more shine on it. Luke, bring up that Facebook page you had. There's your website, lafayettecomedycom. Look at that, casey Rocket, the wild boy himself.
Speaker 1:Casey Rocket yeah, he's unhinged. He's a good dude man. I mean, it's people. I people are weird on certain comedians because they only see like minute. You know he got popular for kill tony but, he's been doing it, you know, 10 plus years he's hitloning all over, so we get him like the night before he goes does a whole weekend at the improv in houston, you know, very cool so, yeah, uh, so that's august 7th through the 9th.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where is it?
Speaker 1:so we do. We got 10 shows three days. So we're doing the majority of the shows at club 337, inside the double trees, where we bring all our big headliners, and then, um, during the day, on saturday, we're doing two shows because we do uh, we do some showcase shows at gator cove, the old gator cove, wildcat brothers distiller, and so we're doing a brunch show that Tyler Arsenault is going to host called Cereal Killers, and he's going to want to do that. So we're going to serve cereal. We'll have and it won't be the good stuff, I'll tell you that a lot of cereal in bags, but we're going to have. You know it's free cereal. If you come the Gator Cove Wildcat people still have a full bar. So if you want rum-infused milk, then they'll do that for you. If you want to get turnt before noon, that would be great.
Speaker 2:Sounds awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we'll do our podcast live from there around 2 pm and then we all roll back to the Doubletree Club 337 for the rest of the shows.
Speaker 2:Very cool. I'm excited to see it in action. We the shows. Very cool. I'm excited to to see it in action. Um, we need to get the word out, folks. Go tell a friend who loves comedy. Everyone loves comedy these days. Go tell a friend, come down august 7th through the 9th lafayette comedy festival yeah, lafayette comedy festival.
Speaker 1:I kept it easy, yeah, simple. I was called like gator fest or squirrel something and I was like no, lafayette comedy festival who does uh?
Speaker 2:who does a kuyon fest?
Speaker 1:that's a john merrifield roof comedy, so we co-produced that. That's his his thing. He started, but, um, we've co-produced the last, uh, three years, just, you know, because we kind of join the scenes together and then gets it out there, and so, yeah, it's been fun how do you, uh, how does that work like a partnership like that, um, trying to develop a show, what's what's, what's kind of the challenges that come with that?
Speaker 1:Well, with him it's like me, him and Tyler. We're kind of like, all right, let's talk about this, what we want, who else can we bring? I'm like, what about so-and-so? Then they bring out people and then, yeah, we just kind of put it together and just kind of throw all hits together. But I just kind of lean to John for that, because that's his baby, uh, and then this one is just, you know, just laugh, your comedy is just me.
Speaker 1:So it's like, all right, well, here we go and I just started looking for, you know, to build a real comedy festival. You got to build it around headliners. You know, and we're different most comedy festivals you have to submit like 25, 35, 45 dollars, you know to. And then, as a comedian, as a comedian, if you want to perform, not the headliners, like in, you know, just normal people, uh, normal comedians, and then, uh, abnormal comedians, and then, uh, and then as a panel who watches them, like I've helped a few festivals like watch it, and but you will get 200 plus videos that you're just watching and it's not beautiful, um, it's. It's like a open mic for comedians to submit. Um, uh, so, but that how, that helps festivals make their money, because you know you don't have to rely on sponsors. You get all this and then you choose who you want. This year we decided like first one, let's go ahead and do invite. Only so every comedian someone I reached out to said here's what we're doing. Do you want to be a part of it?
Speaker 2:so yeah, cool. Yeah, these camera angles are bothering me. Usually I have them lower. How do you, how do you shoot your podcast? We're, uh, we're dying down here yeah, we're dying down here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we could we do uh one like this, one like this, and then, uh, well, I used to do like a three cam mix when we'd set up on stage, but now we set up in front the bar, so it's easy, so I just do it. Uh like that. So used to. We used to do a shot for each person, but now I just essentially, like, this camera catches, uh, the, the guest, and you know, tyler, and then the other camera would do the same, you know and do you?
Speaker 2:how consistent is that podcast?
Speaker 1:uh, well, the problem is is we started it and we only wanted national comedians. The people were coming through the double tree, um, and we've done a few, you know, we've done other shows, but um, the uh, if you don't have a run of people coming through, then you don't have any guests. I mean, we've done, like a few other people, non-big national comedians, you know, just to do it. You know we did want to promote Kuyon Fest and everything like that, but yeah, so it just depends what people come through, and then also it depends, you know, are both of us available too, you know, and then does the comedian want to do it? You know.
Speaker 2:Walk me through the experience of a national comedian, let's say like a Luis J Gomez, coming in to do a show or two at the Doubletree.
Speaker 1:What's that process like, from him getting into an argument at the airport? That's a lot of it. Yeah, no, he's to look at this, or if I, sometimes, if I see them like, oh, you're doing Houston, hey, how about adding a date on? You know, or you're doing Austin, how about adding a date on? And basically it's gone. All right, here's the places I can put you at.
Speaker 1:So I knew, at Lewis, I only had that Thursday because we had something that Friday and Saturday. So I just said, hey, if you want to go different places, I can set you up right outside of Biloxi and then we can go to Mobile and so, just all, right, now looping those people, hey, this is the deal, everyone agrees to it. And you just kind of set it up. So we brought him this run because we had him last summer, he's, he just recorded his new special this weekend, so he was still on that material. So a lot of times they don't want to go back to the same place, um, with you know if they're still working on material. So I brought him to baton rouge rally cap, where I run shows, uh, and then got a mobile. So we did that and then we drove to, uh, biloxi did that and then I passed them off to someone to do mobile, but yeah, I've heard like Joe List and Mark Norman on Tuesdays with Stories, talk about their experience with Lafayette Comedy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I've heard other comics talk about they love it because they're staying at that hotel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's really easy. I say your green room is your hotel room, because we don't have official green room there. We've got a little foyer you can hide in, but other than that, yeah, you just come down and if you need to go back up, go back up. I've heard rave reviews about the cookies. Yeah, man, that's how I first got that show there. This is probably 2017.
Speaker 1:They hit me up and said, hey, do you want to run a monthly show here? And it was like a monthly Wednesday and it wasn't well, was it well? Um, but there we it's like all right, this will give you this much. This is the budget, you know. And the guy I was like man, that sounds great and the guy goes anything else. And I was like, let's walk to that front desk. And I went home with like 10 cookies and I was like and I ate like two of them on the ride home. They used to be like 450 calories each, now they're like 310. But I was just like, oh no, you know. So free cookies. I mean, hey, I'll do anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, tell me about a comics writer. Have you ever do you fill those?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I handle all of that. So a lot of times I get the writers and I look over A lot of times. If I know the comedian, I go, hey, do you need this? They're like no, I'm like tell me what you want, because a lot of times they're pretty much standard and they give them to everybody. And so, um, I had someone like a month ago and I go, hey, you know, I'm going to this stuff, any changes. He's like oh, don't get this, don't get this, don't get this, don't worry about that. So it just depends, because they go in a lot of places and there's just like nothing you know. So, like you know, when norman comes in, we just get like a bottle of some alcohol and try to kill it the whole night and we do that and yeah, it's good, like what else you need?
Speaker 2:so yeah, have you had any wild requests?
Speaker 1:no man, I mean the most. I guess the hardest thing down here is when you have like vegan comedians come in like, uh, okay, you can't eat anything at the hotel because I assume it has some type of animal product in it. So you know, we'll get like thai food or something like that, or like I'll go to the whole foods, pick them up some stuff. Okay, very, yeah, it's not bad, nothing crazy. Uh, one comedian, dusty slade and his writer said black towels, so I just text him. He's like I'm, I don't need a towel. Okay, great, good, good, we don't got black towels, so we got white towels. There you go. So very interesting black towel.
Speaker 2:I wonder why I don't know, maybe it's just on stage. Yeah on, definitely on stage but black.
Speaker 1:Oh, maybe it's just on stage. Yeah, definitely on stage. He wears black probably. Oh yeah, and it's not so showy or whatever you know. But yeah, nothing crazy. I mean sometimes you know, hey, where can I get this? I'm like all right here, you know. Or if they want cigars, like all right, we'll go smoke cigars at the shop and come back.
Speaker 2:We were just talking about the Lewis.
Speaker 1:uh, I am um, possibly I am waiting. We there's the last bit of announcements for comedians and so they did only their national. You know the big comedians right now. So we're waiting for the round. So hopefully I hear okay, hopefully that's in november in new orleans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's at mardi gras world wow, okay, first year they've done in new orleans, yeah yeah, because it's only existed.
Speaker 1:Uh, it started in new york, they did it in vegas, I did it houston one year, then it went back to vegas. So have you ever gone? No, I didn't. Um, I never got a chance to go um and just never planned for it. You know it's like, oh, if I get on it, great.
Speaker 2:So hopefully this is the first year it seems like it's never been a better and worse time for comedy man, you know this year is rough and I'll say it.
Speaker 1:This year has been rough. We've had cancellations. We've had uh, comedians have to cancel. I had, you know, one guy. We had two sold out shows in one night. You know, 600 tickets canceled two weeks before. Of course, everyone gets mad at us. It's like it's not our doing. We're losing money on this thing, buddy, because you know promo and the venues losing money, plus they have people scheduled. So you try to like you don't want to push the blame, but you're like, hey, so-and-so's schedule changed. You know that's why I've had other ones. Just, you know we've had shows get canceled because of flights. We've had people cancel because they got movie roles um, we've. You know we've had shows canceled because they will really had zero sales. Just, sometimes that happens, you know, sometimes you think someone's gonna pop or they'll be, you know, bigger. But just, it's weird. It's a weird year. This is the. This is the roughest year since I've been doing 2000, since 2015, as far as shows and cancellations and everything else and you had some wild names that first year.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that was the Segura and Bergazzi and Stan Hope and all those people you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, you know, maybe coming out 21, 22 was probably was huge. That's where it like exploded. That was the Gillis years and the Harlan Williams and Greg Fitzsimmons and all that, miss Pat, you know, and then it's like all right, so this year was kind of rebound, you know, and then, but we got Miss Pat coming back in October, so hopefully that that rocks well, let's talk again, uh, about Lafayette Comedy Festival.
Speaker 2:Sell me on Lafayette Comedy Festival. You can even sell it to that camera um, well, okay, so it's.
Speaker 1:It's 10 shows. I'm not gonna look at the camera, I'm gonna keep looking at you. I do this thing, like when I do sets. I don't make eye contact with people, like I. I have this thing where I can, like defocus my eyes. Where I can, I'll look like I'm looking right at you, but I don't even see your face. I just look right over just kind of blur.
Speaker 2:Anyway, do you like find like a like the forehead, or yeah, I just kind of like I can look at your bangs or I just kind of a blur.
Speaker 1:Anyway, do you like find like the forehead? Yeah, I just kind of like I can look at your bangs, or I'll just kind of like look in between you. You know, but like every now and then I want to make contact with people. I'm like, I'm so sorry. Lafayette Comedy Festival August 7th, 8th and 9th Ten shows, three days. So on weekend passes, uh, and a weekend pass it's a hundred dollars that gets into every show. So if you factor it out, that's ten dollars a show. So that's ten dollars. See casey rocket ten dollars. See shane torres, karen feehan, marcella aguila, all that uh, we do a vip where you get the first, because we always do vip tickets. People like the first three rows, they like to be close, so that's a little more. Uh, like 125 bucks, you know total. But again, you divide that by 10, you're paying 12, 50 cents that's right math per show, which is ridiculous. Um, we also have day passes. So if you just can only come on thursday or saturday, you can get the whole day pass, and then we now selling the individual show passes. So if you want to see only you want to see casey rocket, you only want to see karen feehan. You can only you can buy a ticket just for that show.
Speaker 1:So we start on Friday we're doing Casey Rocket. He kicks us off, and then that's at 7. Then we have a 9 o'clock show it's called Best of the Fest, where we're putting some of the best comedians on the festival on this showcase. On Friday we start off with we have Karen Feehan and Aaron Putnam. They tour together. I had him here last year, but then we also have a bunch of other people on the show. That's the first show. Second show is Marcella Aguela, who is killer. She's like, I think she's like 6'2", 6'3". She's from New York. She has a special out on HBO. She is just amazing. So that show is packed.
Speaker 1:And then that night our late show is you Look Like Roast roast battle, which we just did this past weekend at michael's men's club 100 plus people in michael's men's club before 8, 30 before the. The action gets going, if you know what I'm saying. Um, and that was great, you know, it's just, it's crazy. So we got that coming back and so, um, uh, that's good ground out friday night. Then saturday at 11, we started gator cove with the brunt show, uh, serial killers, the podcast at two and very informal, like whoever's going to be there and everything. And then, uh, saturday night at six we have uh, another best of the fest, kind of get it going at eight o'clock, is shane torres. You know he's. He was here with burt uh kreischer last time. The cajun dome we've had Shane five times, I think Burt Kreischer produced his last special and everything. And then that night at 10, we're doing the Stone vs Drunk vs Sober Championships, so it's packed with the people who've won the most and that's going to close us out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was just talking to my—I had a contractor at my house this morning and he was asking what I was doing today. I said I was interviewing a guy from laugh at comedy. He goes oh man, I went to that stone versus drunk sober show and it was awesome. Yeah, my wife went, yeah it's killer man.
Speaker 1:So right now it's trying to like, sell the whole package, like, yeah, it'd be great if you can do the whole thing, but individual day shows, but everything's been so slow. So everything's like. You know, for, for normal shows, like you know, usually the majority of ticket sales, unless they sell in advance, is the two days leading up in the day of. You know, um. So, but with a big festival, you're right, and so many people, you know we have 35 plus regional comedians plus the headliners. So you're trying to, you know, get everything and set up and and make sure everyone's taken care of. You know the green room, we'll have food and you know we'll get some drinks and all that. Um, it's just a lot to to tackle.
Speaker 1:Then advertising, so, you know, besides doing local stuff like this, you know next week ads run on serious uh xm and then run on podcasts, you know. So, trying to hit those nationwide ones but focusing in this area. So it's just a, it's just a hassle right now, because you're fighting the economy, you know, and I get it, you know, but you know we're rolling well, we gotta laugh folks yeah, I mean, but it's, you're also laughing, you're there.
Speaker 1:Comedy is the best thing in the world because you know, as long as you, as long as you don't go into a show and have your side, as long as you go, hey look, they're gonna poop. I almost said the kind of they're gonna shit on left, they're gonna shit on right. So that's fine, just don't take anything personal. I think the last couple years when, with comedy getting so big and podcasts and getting political, everyone goes in there and one little thing offends them and it's crazy, we had someone this lady walked out because the comedian was doing a bit about being gay. That offended them, but not their other jokes. That was just equally as raunchy. So just don't, don't take it personally. You'd laugh. I mean, you're supposed to laugh at if your team left. You're supposed to laugh when people shits on that team and you're on team right, do the same. You know. But yeah, you know supposed to laugh when people shit's on that team and if you're on team right, do the same.
Speaker 1:But I don't know. And there's some people that also realize that some people just don't come to comedy. There's some people in this town who've never been to a comedy show. We get that for, like Stone vs Drunk. That's our biggest showcase. We'll get 150 people there and at the beginning I always say who's been to the show before, who has it, and majority of time it's brand new people. So you know there's no comedy clubs for them to get practice on, unless you go to houston or somewhere.
Speaker 1:So that's the other thing too. It's like, hey, you come in, you're gonna laugh.
Speaker 2:That's, that's what it's for, you know and now, um, you have, uh, in the age of social media and reels, and you know, comedians trying to just get their name out there. Yeah, they don't want to burn their material, so they're putting all these crowd work clips and whatnot, and I think it's kind of trained audiences. Uh-oh, sorry, breaking my stuff, jp, sorry. Sorry, I'm good for that. I don't know if you are, but do you find that crowds, because of the crowd work phenomena, feel like they're entitled more to participate?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you get some people who just don't understand social cues. And they're the same people who talk and text on their phones at the movies and their brightness is up, you know, 3,000%. You know you get those who just think they're there and they're the entertainment. And when you get people doing crowd work, a good comedian can like get everyone into crowd work and then back it out Like okay, now we're kind of getting into it, but I mean we don't have many problems. I think over the last 10 years that I've been running these shows I've kicked about maybe 10 people out and that's just really people who are just blatantly disrespectful, or the comedians like you got to go, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We had someone who we let in, for we had dusty slay, you know two sold out shows one night and her and her boyfriend were at the bar and talking and I asked them be quiet, like twice. And she's like really. And I said, yes, it's a comedy show also. We were sold out and we let them in at the end, like I had some people didn't show up. So, hey, yeah, I can get you in. You know some tickets.
Speaker 1:And then I said, look, I'm sorry, but like, if this continues, we're gonna have to ask you to leave. She's like who's gonna kick me out you? And I was like, if I have to, and she goes, I want to see you do it. And I looked at her boyfriend. I was like, dude, work with me here. And he didn't say anything, he was just kind of embarrassed. And she said something again I was like, okay, let's go. And then we just walked out the door and she didn't argue. I think she just wanted to be escorted out, I don't know. So I was like, okay, bye, go hang out in the lobby, go get a cookie, you know wild, wild behavior.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, uh, back to like kind of the the ticket sale conversation. Luke, you can turn your mic on and contribute to this. So, luke, the producer of this show, he uh books for this band criers, you know you know that band, they just did the Rock and Bowl, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, luke, you could probably attest to that feeling JP has right now, where ideally, you want to sell these tickets ahead of time, but oftentimes it's just a couple days or day of right.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, it's crazy, and Lafayette's such a weird crowd. This was the second time we played Rock and Bowl. The first time we had 100 more walk-ups. We had about 200 pre-sales and then 300 walk-ups. So it was a good show. This past one we had two days out we had 300 pre-sales. A day out it jumped by 100, and then the day of jumped by 150, and we ended up with 300 walk-ups. That's great. And then you play like Feed and Seed and we had 50 pre-sales and then 300 people are in there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, life is such an unpredictable crowd and it's hard to gauge.
Speaker 1:I think we get spoiled when I bring in people like Mark Norman, dusty, slate Tim Meadows we sold Slade Tim Meadows. You know we sold out those shows. You know, like the Cam Patterson shows were sold out like four months ahead of time. So when that happens it's like that's what you want, but you, you know you can't rely on that. But you kind of get a little. You get a little spoiled when that happens. You don't want to.
Speaker 1:You know we got Bobcat. You know Goldthwait coming not this weekend, next weekend. You know we've already a hundred plus tickets. That's great, I know we're safe on that. That's good, look great. And then you get some others. They're like four and you're like, ah, like who? But I get it. Some people I'm a nerd for comedy if I, you know, already got my shane gillis tickets for september in houston. You know that stuff I plan around and so a lot of people I get it. It's last minute things and you, summer slows down, but it doesn't help my stress level, buddy, and I have not been sleeping good, so I just went to Costco bought some more whiskey, so I'll be sleeping tonight.
Speaker 2:It would be nice if you could just book for Shane, you know yeah yeah, I'm going to tag him see if he can share it.
Speaker 1:I'll be like look, karen Feehan, she's in tires. You know? Like come on, share that for me. Just need one share buddy. You know, if you get me 50 ticket sales, it'd be great.
Speaker 2:Remember when I had you at the beer garden back in.
Speaker 1:No, we had Shane at DoubleTree. Oh yeah, okay, doubletree, he thought he went on Segura's podcast before he actually came here, which actually came out after it. But he's like look, and when that came out because we went to the beer garden after he goes, I thought I was performing here. I'm like no, dude, no, like no, come on, you know so, but yeah good dude.
Speaker 2:That's funny. Well, enough about comedy. Let's find out more about JP and his South Louisiana roots. Oh all, right.
Speaker 1:So tell folks where you're from. Where'd you grow up? I am from Morgan City, Louisiana.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:count St Mary Parish as Acadiana man. I don't think I've ever thought about that, I guess. No, maybe I don't know, I really don't.
Speaker 2:It's from like a market sense. It's from my TV days. It's part of the Nine Parish region that the Lafayette TV market is in.
Speaker 1:It's not as Acadiana prideful as here.
Speaker 1:So I never would do it, never consider it. I grew up in Morgan City and I lived most of my childhood in Stevensville I don't know if that is so. You got the big lake, lake Plewer, but we called it Lake Polluted. But you go around and it's like back there going. You know, I grew up on a bayou and I tell people like, yeah, I had a pet duck. You know, when you were getting bicycles, I was getting a three-wheeler, not a four-wheeler, not a four-wheeler, a three-wheeler. What was the duck's name? Susie? Oh, yep, I had her since she hatched and we would take baths together.
Speaker 2:Susie Q. The Q stands for quack.
Speaker 1:No, just Susie. Sorry, sorry, I'm riffing here. Yeah, all right. Boo, no, I had Susie. I grew up living in a boat. Just getting in a boat and paddle and fish. What kind of boat.
Speaker 1:Catch alligators. Just an aluminum boat one of my uncles made for my grandma, nice, if I had a trolling motor, I would use the trolling motor until it died and then I'd just have to paddle back. It would suck, I was stupid. But yeah, catch alligators and all that. Turtles, you know, race three wheelers and all that. So I grew up on a bayou. My grandma built a house next to us and it was like a, like a uh, a neighborhood they built in bayou. So you, you know, we always had snakes and all kind of stuff because there was just a field across the house. Um, but yeah, I grew up there, then moved back in, like middle elementary, back to morgan city proper and, uh, lived there until I was 18 and escaped, you know what was the uh?
Speaker 2:did you have a corner store that you frequented?
Speaker 1:oh, uh, yeah. So in stevensville there's one right on the highway where the levee's at in the boat launch. So you have to pay your, your, um, your fee there in order to go. So that I used to ride my bike from the back of the neighborhood um mile and a half going there, because I would buy slush puppies and they'll let you make your own slush puppies. So I put, like you know, four squirts of every flavor instant diarrhea. It was great, um, and just get stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And then when I moved a part of morgan city called lakeside, um, bernie's was this uh corner store and, uh, one of my buddies stole from there while we were there and that man got so mad at us and I was like I am sorry I didn't know he did this, but it was real chill because I'd ride my bike there to go get my mom cigarettes I'm like I'm not going to smoke Virginia Slims and then I tried getting her to quit so I would return them. And then I was like, hey, my mom wants to return these. And then I was like, hey, mom wants to return these, and then I'll just keep the money you can return cigarettes again, this is morgan city.
Speaker 1:A long time ago and then I worked at a supermarket called lakeside supermarket and then that was just mayhem, so I can do whatever I want there what was the the job title at the supermarket?
Speaker 2:I started as a stock boy, you know, stocking shells, bagging, groceries man, I not to cut you off, but I actually the other day was like daydreaming, infatuated, about just stocking shelves, like if I didn't have to worry about doing all this and I could just clock in all right, listen to a podcast or music all day and stock shelves I have a little ocd that, um, when I'm in a grocery store, you know, because you have to front the shelves, you pull everything to the front, looks beautiful label.
Speaker 1:Same way, I will turn labels. I don't care, I don't care, like I'll be like nope, nope, nope, nope. You know, your cream corn should be right here. Everyone wants a regular, you know, but I'll turn them. So I did that.
Speaker 1:And then I moved to the meat department and so I would, you know, like kind of help clean up. I caught the meat department on fire one time cleaning up because it was a short when I was cleaning, so I was spraying the water. That was fun, um, and then, uh, they were very kind of, it was very mom and pop. So we would process like hogs and deer, and so after hours, and so that, since I had to clean all the machines, I knew the secret where you had the grinder, and so it was probably like that long, and so I'd be like, oh yep, got everything out, and then I would process everything and they would leave, and and I would just like a couple pounds and I would just go home and make, you know, deer hamburgers or something like that. I did that.
Speaker 1:And then I started driving groceries and then so our main business was selling to like offshore companies like Tidewater and all these companies, for all the tugboats and the boats going out. So you do all the groceries and deliver those and you go um, you know 15, 16 going to a boat with just men who work offshore who are not not seeing women in a few days. So you get on the boat they're watching porn and you're just like they're like hey, come hang out with us. So okay, this is weird, your groceries are, your groceries are in a van. I'll get them, you know.
Speaker 2:And then yeah, so I did all that. Come on in. This is the best part.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, pam uh, but uh yeah, I did all that. So that was my high school. So I worked. I had to get special permission to work as soon as I graduated eighth grade. I started working that summer and I worked from I was 14 to I was 18, till I moved here what high?
Speaker 2:school morgan city high okay, yeah, um, if you were to create a netflix show a la tires, but set it in a some sort of south louisiana business, where, where would what would it be the perfect setting in your mind? Oh, that's good that's good.
Speaker 1:um, man, I'm trying to I related to things that I've done like a grocery store would be cool. Um, I worked at a music store, like you know, mom, and pop music store back in the day. That would be kind of cool, you know. You know, even like a little like a Boudin shop, since I just went to Billy's, something like that. That would be kind of cool, something kind of unique. It'd have to be something different that people don't get to see. What about a car wash, a car wash, which? Different that people don't get to see? Right, about a car wash, a car wash, which one?
Speaker 1:uh, no, I got a dozen around here, I'm gonna start a series in legends and each episode we're in a different legends. That will get me 10 episodes that's the whole season.
Speaker 2:So there you go about the time. Next season rolls around, there'll be 10 more legends I love legends so much so yeah, yeah, and so I always use.
Speaker 1:I use them for a joke and and I talk about, like, seeing two people in traffic. They're both at Jeeps. You know it's a joke about me shitting on people with their stupid ducks on their Jeeps, no offense, but I don't like it.
Speaker 3:Unrelated. Carter. What do you have outside?
Speaker 2:Oh sorry, I'm currently driving a lime green Jeep with a bunch. She's in a cult, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:So anyway my joke. I say like I don't know where these people go on, probably legends johnson street or legends bertrand and then I pull out a piece of paper and I name all the legends because I can't remember. But yeah, that's funny, that'd be fun, yeah that probably doesn't play in? Uh, houston, no, I've only done it here. I have to think of something else, or just get rid of that that little tag in there, do you?
Speaker 2:have space in your act, whenever you're going to a place out of town or not from here, that you try to incorporate the local area, like at the top of the show or anything like that.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, usually, I'll learn. I just got back. We did a weekend in Florida. I know some places over there that or that is like okay, this, basically I look for what is their version of New Iberia, that's you know. So in Houston I know I can make fun of uh, uh, where's where's Bucky's at when you, when you go into um the huh, the no before Katie, the Baytown. So Baytown's a good punch line. Uh, I always use, like if I'm in panama city or pensacola, I'll say like defuniac springs. I just know that from someone. But when I said it, we did the uh theater with martin orman in uh in pensacola, and I said defuniac springs as a punch and it hit so hard I was like okay, basically, whatever which I get there, I'm like what's your new iberia?
Speaker 3:and yeah, iberia.
Speaker 2:What is the new Iberia of your region? Yes, yes, that's a good baseline. God bless the berry. Yeah, something like that. You said you worked at a little mom and pop music store.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, I worked at Toys Music.
Speaker 2:You hear the joke about the amount of times you hear Stairway to Heaven or something like that. But was there anything that it was like clockwork you would hear someone playing on the guitar?
Speaker 1:Oh no, no, we sold CDs and vinyl.
Speaker 2:It wasn't instruments, oh okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, so we had a listening station, so I never heard it.
Speaker 2:Bro, I was in New Orleans a few weeks ago at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to kick off this Clifton Chenier tribute album. The Rolling Stones, the Rolling Stones, yeah, yeah. And all of a sudden they're reading off someone, the people who helped support the album, and they said Mr Squarepants, tom Kenny was there, the voice of SpongeBob Nice, and I was talking to him after the show. I can put a picture in post. But I was talking to him after the show. I can put a picture in post. But I was like what brought you to supporting Clifton Chenier and Zydeco? And he was like man, I'm a nerd, music nerd. I grew up going to music stores and just getting a bit out of record shop and just finding cool records. And it just hit his heart and came down to support.
Speaker 1:So Dave Hubble had Toys Music which was a block off of from borton ice cream on stewart street and it's I would say that the whole shop was this area here. It was so tiny, he had like corn to an in-store sign-in. People couldn't even come in, he had to sign through a window. Um, but that little place was so tiny and so I would just go hang out. I was just a music nerd and I'll go hang out before I went to work. And then it moved over by Jason's Deli on Brothers where Brothers was at in the boulevard, and then it moved over by the plaza where that new Car Wash is at.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I worked all those places and but yeah, I would just. But you know, talking about like finding stuff like we had we'll get like promo stuff, and that's how I discovered nothing face, and then I played it for hubble and then he would play it on the radio because his radio show. Then it blew up and they started coming here. So it's, you know, some of my favorite acts I found in a bin that you know was thrown away. Actually, when we're next to the jason's deli they were building, finishing some buildings, and we had so many cds that were just like trash. Instead of throwing away, I'll get bored and I'll take all the cds like hellraiser style and I would throw and would see how far we can throw them.
Speaker 1:And so, um, there was a empty place and it was just dirt, but they had this you know the, the ceiling, the roof, the walls, and so we would just throw them against the back wall and see how many we can break. And now that's where my buddy's um barber shop is at. Uh, seawolf barber chris sons and I was like you know how many cds are under this building right now? Because I would just like just toss them great time. So I listened to him like no, this sucks go on is there an art to?
Speaker 2:I mean, do you still go to like, like lanyard records downtown, or no, I I am.
Speaker 1:I don't have any physical media anymore. Actually, the last time I was there, uh, I took my, my kid. She started getting vinyl and so I was like, here we go, and then then you get back into it. But yeah, I don't have any physical. I used to have like 3 000 plus cds and I got rid of them all, traded them in everything, um, so I'm a, I'm a, I'm a digital nerd, you know so back then was is there an art to finding the perfect?
Speaker 1:record man. Uh, I would take chances, um, on covers, like album covers. If you got a cool album cover, I'm gonna listen to you. Then you start learning record labels, flip to the back, you learn producers, uh, or like oh, you know, I was a pearl jam nut back in the day so if, like, one of the band members farted on someone's album, I had it, you know. So that's how you just get into stuff, um, but yeah, it was really just kind of like, once you start learning what, what record labels you like, what producers, all that you know. That's that was basically my way. Trial and error Is Rick Rubin's philosophy? A bunch of bullshit, shit, I don't know, I just got fit. So, uh, a couple weeks ago, uh, I watched the beastie boys documentary and uh, and you know he was big in their career. Then it was kind of falling out and like apparently they had, they were like something with money, him and and def jam and all that or whatever. So I don't know, I don't he's on so much stuff.
Speaker 2:I mean he but it seems like he's not a musician.
Speaker 1:I don't think he even runs the board or anything, he's just a vibes guy yeah, I wouldn't say it's bull, because before I did comedy I played music for like 14 years and I was the same.
Speaker 1:I would tell people you know, you share with bands and stuff and you listen to songs. I was like, hey man, what about this? I don't even need to know how to play your song, it's like it's just input, you know. So I guess it's also having that year. But I mean, he's made some amazing stuff over the years, so I guess he's okay. The rest of the meditating and not wearing shoes. I mean, whatever he's got the hair for it, I believe him, you know.
Speaker 2:Growing up in your house growing up did believe them.
Speaker 1:You know, did uh, growing up in your, in your house, growing up, did you have a? No shoes when you enter the house? Philosophy, oh no, no. Well, I barely wore shoes, especially like growing up over there, but no, it was, just don't make sure they're not muddy. How strong are your feet?
Speaker 2:like smelling or okay, like because you walk around barefoot all the time.
Speaker 1:Oh, then it was fine. I mean because we, you know you step all over everything you know, so I, you go swimming. I remember being okay swimming down the bottom of the bayou. Touching the bottom Now, uh-uh. We were in Florida a couple weeks ago. I have some water shoes. There's some Crocs I used to wear for fishing, but there's a cap over the toe. That's the only way I'm getting touching the bottom.
Speaker 2:Where did you go on vacation as a kid?
Speaker 1:Oh man, we would, uh, when I raced the rewheelers and my dad had, uh, dirt bikes. We'll go to this place called chipola, which I don't remember where it's at. It's either like northern louisiana or another state or something like that. I'll have to google that, but we'd go there. We would go to. Um, I remember going as a kid like to yogi bear land. Was it yoga with something like with yogi bear?
Speaker 3:oh, yeah, it's like, it's like a uh outdoor park yeah, yeah uh, rv park, it's in robert yeah yeah, I remember going that um.
Speaker 1:My grandpa had a camper um, um, like a motor home, which was like that's still my goal in life, um, but I remember just going to random places, you know, um, I don't remember too many vacations as a kid, you know um, I just went for fourth of july weekend.
Speaker 2:They had some bunch of buddies, they have rvs and we went to the rv park in henderson.
Speaker 1:Yeah, margaritaville, nice, that was a good time, last last one, I went uh, me and a comic from new orleans, we, we would go camping like the summer of COVID. We were so like anxious to hang out. And I was like my wife's like well, go camping, that's safe. And I was like okay, and so we went camping mid July like stupid hot, and so it was like 85 at night and uh, but we did it, man, about two years ago I just rented a camper, went pick it up in St Mandeville and then put it to the park and we just stayed inside in the AC.
Speaker 1:It's my stomping grounds on North Shore. Yeah, did you ever perform over there? There used to be a place called Hideaway Arcade. My buddy, josh Watts, was booking comedy over there, so I've done that a few times. We've routed some national comedians through there. There's a place called interference sports bar that you can still smoke in. Uh, oh yeah, so we do shows over there. That's. That's always a wild, crazy show, um, and no one's got staff and that's good, um yeah a few other places over there.
Speaker 1:There's a brewery over there, but uh yeah, every now and then I'll pop up do some shows over there you've done um you've done sports drink yeah, yes, numerous times.
Speaker 1:I'm actually recording a? Um, me and tyler were both headlining it next month and we're recording a 30 minute special each. So they're doing this series where they're recording a bunch of comedians, uh, each month and so, um, so, yeah, we're doing that, uh, next month. I just did it, probably a month ago. I did a whole weekend there opening for a comedian I love, emily Cantolano. Then me and Tyler's headlining we did their festival there with Sean Patton and then in like November I got them hooked up with Mark Norman and so we did like two shows in one night and that place you can fit 40 people and we put like 60 people in per show. It was crazy marked at that room. Yeah, god, he'll do any room he will, he will. It was supposed because he was in town, because it was after he was. He was doing the orpheum the saturday after thanksgiving, so we're gonna do the sunday. Then he's like can't do the sunday, so they moved it to wednesday, the night before, and so it was. It was bonkers, yeah, that's cool. And they um, they just bought a? Um, a firehousehouse in the area off Magazine Street and they're opening a comedy club that's going to start, so probably next year, hopefully everything gets running. But it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:It's a tough comedy city it is. Sports Street came about in the time where New Orleans needed it most because they lost a few venues. So Vincent Zambon ran a show at the Dragon's Den, which was, like you know, when I book Todd Berry, todd will go do that show and it can only hold like 75, 80 people, but he'll do two shows because it was just a good room. So Dragon's Den closed. Hiho got new management, they changed everything, so they lost that. There was another place that had closed and so, with all this going on, people were losing shows and sports drink was like hey, there was kind of perfect timing and that dude loves comedy, uh, andrew who runs it, and um, so they kind of filled in all that and it's really kind of taken off.
Speaker 1:They had a talladano, which is the street they're on um comedy festival about a month or so ago and, um, they did, uh, multiple venues three days and we we got to do the first night, which was like crazy storms, you know, two inches of water in the street. Great, we leave, then it turns beautiful the next day. But yeah, it was, it was crazy. So they're doing it good and they kind of other than that. If you're gonna have, is it? There's gonna be good comedy in new orleans, like well, like big shows. It has to be like the big theaters, you know, but he'll still get some crazy awesome comedians come in for the weekend, you know, and so it's, it's, it's a great place.
Speaker 2:That's that's needed you mentioned that whenever, um that when you're performing, you don't look people in the eye. Is that a little easier to accomplish in a theater?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, definitely, because with the lights you know, like because you're just looking out and you're just looking at a blur, you know it's like you're literally a deer in the headlights. You know, every now and then you move to the side and you can see someone and you're like hey, look at that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so that's way easier, you know, because you're just performing to the people. But, like you know, double trio, like we do shows that you know we've been doing shows at fat pats, the bruce art and the bro bridge location and then shane's quesadilla burgers on congress. You can't hide from those people, so you're just like hey, you know, I know you're eating sweet potato fries, but here's my butt, you know um, you've been, you've done some shows at uh.
Speaker 1:Adopt a dog yeah, yeah, we run some monthly shows. Well, we, we're probably quarterly over there right now so yeah, we do a wednesday, uh, wednesday night show. We just had one a couple weeks ago. Um, it was rescheduled because, you know, it's been crazy storming and even even though we're outside and they've got the covered patio, it was light and everything. We did that one. So we're back there in september and, I think, november. Um, we're doing shane's quesadilla burgers, we're doing gator cove, we're doing the fat pats and then y'all do?
Speaker 2:what do y'all do that upstairs at shane's?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, so they only open that just for like events. So it's pretty cool because you know they still have, like you know, people eating downstairs with their family, so they got it where it's like it's not a problem, but it's's cool, we'll pack it out and they love it. They're like this is great. Same thing we just sold out the Fat Pats in Brobridge last week, had a great show. We're doing shows at Rally Cap in Baton Rouge, which is fun, and then I'm still bringing the Stone vs Drunk vs Sober show on the road. We just did Lake Charles this weekend. Brought it to Dallas, fort Worth, pineville we're doing shows in Pineville. Who would have thought so? Yeah.
Speaker 1:What makes a good room. Um, it's a certain feeling, you know, um One. You know some places don't even have stages. You know, like, okay, that's not even a problem If you got a little stage, a platform to stand on, great, but if not, you can make it.
Speaker 1:It's really just the setup and the arrangement and the sound and you know all those factors. You know, yelling out orders during a show or something like that, you've got to help us police the crowd, make sure they're not talking too loud. If you go take an order, yeah, you've got to keep taking orders, but, like you know, you've got to keep it down. You know, I mean we did a show not too long ago where, like the kitchen staff was so loud and one dude's playing his little switch, you know, and at like full volume. You hear this and I'm like dude, like just come on. So you know, that's the things for Roams, you know.
Speaker 1:And then you've taken sound lights that look good, everything. You know, I have a lot of lights I bring with me, I have my own PA and everything, so I can make the room look good as much as I can, except like we've been doing these 7 o'clock shows during the summer and it's full daylight, you're just roasting. You know, by the time the last comedian's on, it's just getting dark. So I'm like we need to start changing these. So, like, we got a show this uh thursday at uh cheslefette, which is uh downtown with the courthouse. We did one there right before mardi gras uh, and that's outside, you know, so you can control as much as you can. You know, other than the weather, and you know someone on the on the street or whatever, but I mean we're used to it outside. So just getting that environment and everything like let me set up my PA, let me put my lights and then hope for the rest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tyler was when he was on the show. He was telling us like horror stories of performing in daiquiri shops and it's like some of those shows. It's like you're bombarding people with a comedy show that they didn't expect it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a flash mob of dick jokes is essentially what it is.
Speaker 3:Emphasis on flash. Yeah, emphasis on flash.
Speaker 1:Sorry, man. No, yeah, there's places where the good thing is that, like the Fat Pat shows, the Shane shows, the Adopt-A-Dog you know we're running the shows, they're letting everyone know, hey, there's this. So if you get there to eat instead of you sitting on the patio at adopt dog, hey, let you know. There's a comedy show. It's uh, 7 30. At 7 we're gonna start, you know we we're. We're already selling tickets. But at 7, if you're not staying for the show, you need to transition to inside or or or leave. You know we don't want to, but like letting everyone know that, hey, we're not, we just don't want to surprise you and that's the worst.
Speaker 1:So, like the Fat Pat shows, they have a enclosed patio, this real nice climate control. They have signs up. Hey, you're here for the show, okay, oh, you're not. Well, you can sit in the restaurant. Oh wait, we didn't know there's a show we want to go in. Well, so that's good. But yeah, I hate shows that are just like hey, you're here drinking, then here's a comedy. I mean, we've done some shows. I remember Dick's Daiquiri is on Kali Saloon. They actually do a show there and I was so happy because I got to call it Dick's Jokes. I'm like that just writes itself and we only did two shows and I'm like your crowd doesn't want this.
Speaker 1:Because you've got standards, yeah, and we only did two shows and I'm like your crowd doesn't want this because you got, they want your standards. Yeah, yeah, you got. You got people who are here and they just want to do this, you know. So, like when we did shows, we did shows at Legends. You know. We started doing the one downtown. They had just reopened, remodeled and everything, and that was like on a Thursday night, so everything was fine for that one.
Speaker 1:And then we moved it to Legends Pub pub, the old bob's pub which I used to live at when I played music, so I was like this would be a great room for comedy. Low ceilings, low ceilings, that weird stained glass ceiling, which I still love, that still works. Uh, and it was. You know, it was a free open mic. When you still get people who didn't know, but okay, hey, look, hey, we got a show here. You don't go out in the patio, right? Um, but it wasn't just like. You know, we're here and sorry, you know. So, yeah, and some people don't understand that. They think, oh, it's, you can do a show, does it? I always say, just because you can do a show doesn't mean you need to, and and that once people learn that, it makes the shows better, you know, and if you get it done in advance, people know what to expect. You put up signs. It makes everything better for everyone.
Speaker 2:Well, jp, I appreciate you coming on. I know we're trying to also get some tickets sold for Lafayette Comedy Fest, but I appreciate your time. As we get kind of wrapping up here, what I've been doing with my guests is I've been asking them to fill their go bag. You know, spelled the way you would think it would be spelled in.
Speaker 1:South.
Speaker 3:Louisiana. Yeah, nailed it.
Speaker 2:But it's three items that if you had to get out of town, that you can take with you. That will remind you of home. What would be those three items Remind me of home, or like something I would need from here. No, just something to remind you of home, that you're never coming back to Louisiana.
Speaker 1:Oh man, moisture, wicking and underwear.
Speaker 2:No, I would say man. Man, that's hard man. I know I need to start sending the guests this question before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean remind me a home. I mean, you know, I guess I would take tabasco. Uh, that would be because that's just a staple. Um, I don't know, I'm not. I'm very weird. As I get older, I don't hold on to things, I'm not like, oh, I need this kind of gung-ho thing.
Speaker 3:You know, so I don't know.
Speaker 1:I guess just everything for me would just be stuff that I've been doing, Because I mean that just takes all my time. You know, your laptop, yeah, my laptop. Yeah, I take my dogs and all that. But I take my dogs and all that, but I don't know. I think about it because me and my wife talk about moving away, Like if we moved away what would I miss?
Speaker 1:And just as I get older, there's not much stuff that I'm like oh, I can't live without this. If I need it, I can have it shipped, I guess.
Speaker 2:Minus the people.
Speaker 1:Minus the people. Yeah, yeah, there's a few things that I would miss in this town, that you wouldn't find anywhere else, but, um, I guess you find replaces it, you know sure, yeah.
Speaker 2:Um, going back to your hot sauce, do you keep your hot sauce in the fridge or out the fridge, out the?
Speaker 1:fridge. I just read an article, uh and uh, there's a weird thing on on google chrome and now I start seeing like recommended websites and it's and mine's a weird thing on Google Chrome. And now I start seeing like recommended websites and mine's like cameras working out bourbon whiskey and some weird food. And one was an article on hot sauce and it was like should you keep it in the fridge or not? And I have this argument with my wife and I'm like no, it stays on the table. Also, like mayo and ketchup stays on the couldn't stay on the table.
Speaker 1:Look at every restaurant you go into Like it's room temperature you know, as long as you don't put it in the fridge and go back. But they had a guy from Tabasco Plant and he says, no, it's, he goes. It will discolorate over time. It always see that it gets all kind of weird pale. He goes. But it's made to stay out, you're fine. So okay, I got a bottle in my car right now so that gets up to 100 something degrees, you know good to know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, um potato salad in the gumbo or out the gumbo oh, in the gumbo?
Speaker 1:yeah, definitely it has to. It has to sit on top and slowly become one, but yeah, do you dust your crawfish?
Speaker 1:um, so they should be cooked with the spice. But I also like that extra on top and I'm a sauce man so when I make my own we live not too far from Crawfish Time on Ridge, so when I make my sauce, you got the mayo, you got the ketchup. Worcestershire sauce, the garlic sauce, they got a horseradish. I put everything in there. I get it like where you'll hurt after eating it and that's my favorite Gun to your head. Could you spell Worcestershire? I'm dead. Starts with a W. No, I couldn't. No, who does it? I can't even spell Lee and Perrin, you know. I don't know if there's one R or two R's.
Speaker 2:Well, man give people some advice.
Speaker 1:Best way r2r. So well, man, uh, give people some advice. Best way to support lafayette comedy right now? Oh, man, so that, like, if you like comedy, just come out, check out the shows. Look at lafayettecomedycom we're on facebook and uh, instagram and tiktok and all that. Check out the shows, you'll find something. Take a chance, you know, uh, don't make your first show an open mic, um, because you're gonna see 20 people and you may see great people and you may see the worst people. You may see people who've never done comedy, whatever. So try, pick another show, pick something you like. Look at the, look at our lineup. You'll find someone you know.
Speaker 1:You know bobcat from police academy or miss pat and all these people um, go out to shows um, you know you don't have to. You know, break the bank there. We never have any drink minimums, not like a you know big comedy club. Two item minimum. You have another 50 on top. You don't drink great, whatever you know. Just come on out, um and watch some shows, uh, and if you another thing too is you ever want to try stand-up comedy? I mean, come do it. You got to start at open mics. That's how you get started. Oof Comedy runs one on Tuesdays at Cité d'Arts and go watch one or two if you're interested in doing it. We got a little page on our website that tells you all the tips and everything and you just get out there and do it. You can only practice a little bit at home, but you have to get out there and either do well or do bad and then decide what do I want to do? You know.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1:August 7th through the 9th August 7th, 8th and 9th at Club 337 and Gator Cove here in Lafayette.
Speaker 2:I want to see Casey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you got Casey Rocket, who's huge from kill tony comedy mothership. Karen feehan, who's on tires uh, you know she just put out a special but uh, it's her second season on tires with shane gillis's show on netflix. Uh, marcella arguella from hbo, all that, and then um and shane torres, and then you know we got our stone versus drunk championships, roast battle and just showcases, and so you can't beat it. There's never been a big comedy festival in Lafayette and they don't. It doesn't exist. So, other than what Oop John is doing, this is a big one bringing in the national headliners that you don't get normally this many people in one weekend, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's going to be great for Lafayette and great for comedy and I hope people can support it. Lafayettecomedycom Yep, Cool, we can get you tickets. What was the real quick? The roast battle. What's the worst you've ever been burned.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I'm not going to repeat that one. That one still hurts, I don don't want to repeat it. Um, uh, tyler likes to say I look like david, tell if he ate all the cigarettes. That's what he said before, when I was fatter. So you know, now I lost weight, I've kind of taken their advantage away. So yeah, um, but yeah, that's uh. Oh, someone said something about my wife, like looks like my. Someone says it looks like I hate. I hate my kids and my wife so much. I do comedy and I was in a band, you know, and I was like my wife would probably say yeah, but no, I love them death, but yeah, just never home.
Speaker 2:So uh, because I'm a hack and I steal bits, um so, from andrew santino's whiskey ginger. I like to end this show the same way. Look at the camera right there, even though I know you hate staring at things and people in the eye but you know, there's an actually eye there, just a lens.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at its hair.
Speaker 2:Word, a phrase, advice, another plug. Whatever you want to do to end this episode with, the floor is yours.
Speaker 1:I like to say don't half-ass anything, whole-ass everything Acast presents.
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