Joel Kim Booster

Yeah.

Oh, good God.

Yeah.

And so it was just like we had all moved at the same time, around the same time.

And so it was really humbling for them in a way because suddenly they had to start over and redo a lot of the same milestones that they did in Chicago, in New York.

But for me, it was like, well, going last at the open mic was sort of already my life.

And so it was a much easier adjustment for me to move from Chicago to New York at that point in my development as a comedian because already I was nothing in Chicago.

So then being nothing in New York was a lot easier for me to swallow than for some of these people that I moved.

Yeah.

There were no comedians on that show.

There was nobody on that show who was like in the comedy community.

And so

I didn't really know that I was supposed to go to open mics until like later on.

I didn't know the system and the hurdles that I was supposed to be jumping through and the milestones I was supposed to be reaching to get success in Chicago.

I was just sort of doing stand up at in the theater community and like alone, kind of siloed off from the rest of the comedians in Chicago.

And so I would do these random shows and like, listen, I bombed plenty of times after that first set.

But you I still in some ways, I think I was chasing the high of that first set for the first few years of doing stand up after that.

Yeah, I mean, it's a different... It was a completely different thing that I had to learn, though.

I don't think that the skills that I had as a script writer were necessarily translating into stand-up.

I have to really learn a different way of writing very quickly after that.