Billy Gardell

Well, hello.

Where are you?

I am in my house in Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles.

I have been here.

I'm originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so I still consider myself a yinzer, but I've lived in Chicago, New York, Orlando, Atlanta, worked all over the country, but I settled out here about 1996.

Okay.

Yeah, just that's kind of where my stand-up career led me.

Like, I started in Orlando and then worked all the gigs in kind of Florida back in the late 80s.

I started in 87, and then I moved up to Atlanta and kind of branched into Atlanta.

Working all the southeastern states, you know, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia.

And then made my way up to New York for a little bit and did the Northeast Corridor.

And then Chicago, worked the Midwest states, and then finally made my way out here and

About 25 years doing overnight success.

That's what I usually tell people.

Well, I was going to say until this internet slot machine came along.

Yeah, you actually had to work at what you did before you got good and got picked.

And you cut your teeth.

You had to break into television in some way, too.

Nowadays, TV is the smaller component.