Kelsey Hightower

And you were pretty funny.

And then we drove about an hour north.

And the audience is predominantly white.

And so on the drive there, I'm like, there is no way you can do those jokes in this room.

I got to see how this is going to go.

And at the time, they're only paying the comedians like $50.

So you don't make a lot in the early days.

And he totally pivoted the set.

And he held that audience too.

And I was like, all right, I can be your manager.

I know business.

I know kind of logistics.

I know how to, you know, make a plan together.

And I did that for a number of years.

And, you know, he won some televised competitions.

We went on the road, bands like Earth, Wind & Fire and some large comedians from Kings of Comedy and Queens of Comedy.

And I actually picked up some IT work with the company behind it called Latham Entertainment.

They had been doing movies at this time.

And so now I'm like, you know, doing IT for them, and I got the small business, I got the comedian.

And so look, I was able to save a lot of money, but man, luckily I was 20 years old because I had all this energy, but I was working quite a bit.