Dulcé Sloan

The play was badly written.

You have no control over that.

You're just in a play.

If someone's characterization is bad, like I've been in plays with people who are not good actors at all.

Actor is a very loose term when it came to whatever that person was doing because I wouldn't call it acting.

They were outside saying words.

And so their way of saying words was not great.

We were all doing a great job.

I don't know what the hell was happening on stage.

Right.

And so again, there's someone else's words, but your portrayal, you didn't bring the person to life in a truthful way.

Stand up was me just being me.

But then as you progress as a comic, you realize that you're still creating something.

Because it's just you on stage.

Because the advantage that I have when I started stand-up is because I'd been performing my entire life.

So the learning curve when people start doing stand-up is a lot of them had never, for comics who had never been on stage before, it's you're learning how to be on stage and you're learning how to write a joke and you're learning how to find out what's funny and you're learning what you find is funny.

For me, it was, I already knew what I knew was funny.

I had a shortcut because I'd been acting since I was a kid.

So the basics, those people are like, well, what is one of the things you would tell comics when they start?

Be still, find your light.