Joel Kim Booster

She'd taken all the photos down of her sister and she just, you know, just the pain of like losing a family member that you didn't even really know anymore and then learning who they were through the eyes of someone else.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, this is the other thing.

I was not doing comedy in college at all.

I thought like when I switched to playwriting, I was writing fucked up stuff.

Like everything I did was like dark and twisted in the way that like every 20 year old thinks that they are dark and twisted.

And comedy was not something that was ever on my radar in college.

I tried out for the improv group and the sketch group every year, except for like my senior year.

And I never even got callback.

So it was not something... I don't think anyone especially thought of me as a funny person other than socially.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I could make my friends laugh, and I made people laugh, and I was a bit of a class clown in classes and stuff like that.

But I never wrote comedy.

I will say that all of my plays...

like i reveled in like getting the audience to laugh in moments of really high tension and stuff like that and like this play that i wrote layover was very funny like it was like getting people to laugh and then it ended and everyone cried and like i really loved the interplay of that um but it was not something comedy writing was not something that or and certainly not stand-up was not something that was on my radar until much after college

Not the way my parents did it.

I mean, my parents did it because of religious reasons.

They were deeply conservative, evangelical Christians, did not want me learning about sex or evolution, so they kept us home.

Um, just my brother and my, my sister had been going to public school since she was in the eighth grade, but something about my brother and I, I don't know why they kept us home for longer.

And, um, they, my, both my parents worked, no one was watching us.