Joe Opio

So anyway, the reason I say I'm lucky is Trevor told me something that also stayed with me.

Remember, you told me if I didn't come to the U.S.,

I'll never have ended up with you.

Because you kept asking certain comedians to come over.

And then you also told me, if you didn't, because my visa was three months.

You told me, if you had come three months before, we would never have met because I was on the road.

If you had come three months after, we would never have met because I was now at a daily show.

I'm not meeting randoms at the Comedy Cellar.

So I feel like,

For me, everything, and it goes back to the thing I was telling you, being born a guy in Africa, because in Africa, a girl to live a thriving law career, to become, it's, everyone go like, this was a waste of money.

But a guy, people go like, oh, boys will be boys.

And, you know, when you come from a supportive family and a tight-knit family and, you know, not everyone has that.

And so when I left law to become a comedian, when there's no comedy in Uganda,

I remember everyone went like, oh, this guy has lost it.

Because there were people who thought, because I had done so well in my SATs, I was basically sponsored by the government to study law.

And the people said, oh, people thought I was going to be that attorney general.

And so people went like, oh, he has wasted his potential, this and that.

The attorney general?

People thought I was on the first line.

That was like your natural progression.