Dulcé Sloan

So you get out of work and so you have rehearsal after work or you have the shows on the weekends.

So you work during the day to be able to do what you want to do at night.

It was the goal is...

I just knew that I wanted to move to LA and be an actor full time.

I did not know that getting to LA would require me to become a comedian.

So...

When I started, because a friend of mine worked the door of a comedy club in Atlanta.

And so I was in this improv troupe and she was like, my little sister's from college.

She's like, hey, I worked the door at this comedy club.

I'll let you in for free.

Come hang out.

Like, all right.

So go and hang out with her.

And then sometimes I can't be hovering around her because she's running the door.

Right.

She's taking tickets.

She's selling tickets, whatever.

so that's how i meet some of the comedians and uh one of the comedians big kenny just from talking to him because i would go up there all the time if i didn't have an improv thing or if i wasn't in a play or just had free time i'd go hang out with her and i met some of the comics and like you should start doing stand-up you're funny and i'm like i'm not i'm not i'm not a stand-up and uh stand-up scared me um

because i'd never been on stage and been saying my own words and been myself i was always playing a character and so uh it took big kenny two years to convince me to take a stand-up class and i was on unemployment because i i'd gotten laid off from a uh car insurance company they got bought out and they did layoffs and me and my homegirl who worked there we were the last we were the youngest ones we were the last ones hired so you're the first ones fired um

and so one week of my unemployment check was how much this comedy class cost and I was like and he for after two years he was inviting me and my mom to shows come hang out he's like I'm not doing anything untoward I'm married I have kids come to this show uh bring your mom he's like I know you're supposed to be doing this he's like you're funny you know what's funny you know what a punchline is a conversation you just don't know how to write a joke and I was like no uh and