Frankie Quiñones

Or did they say, okay, yeah, you got something today, encourage you and help you move into the stand-up space?

Because you don't hear a lot of parents being stand-up comedian fans and then their children wanting to be stand-up comedians and they support that.

So what was that like in your household?

Yeah, I mean, it was cool.

I didn't start until I was 25.

I'm in my 40s now, but...

you know them having it on the house they they knew that they inspired me to want to get into it and i was always class clown all that bullshit but i got a sprinkler head on my dad's work truck i'll do little performances for them even as a youngster but like i said you know we watch everybody eddie murphy richard pryor george carlin all these new parodys first dude looked like me and specials were like a more bigger deal back then you know it was like three hbo specials yeah yeah i'm gonna be like cover your

ears on the back of my head, just watching this shit.

I was like inspired.

I was like, damn, this is incredible.

You know, this dude with the mic, just bringing all these shit to life.

But, uh, but yeah, then it was like, I was like, I'm going to do standup and they were proud and excited.

But then, you know, I started, you know, and then I became a starving artist.

I was 10 years in sleeping on my boy's couch.

They were just worried.

Like, yo, you're 35.

You know, I'm a comedian.

Yeah.

So they were always supportive, but there was definitely a period where they were like, yo, what the fuck?

It's kind of nervous.