Kevin James

Like a little bit of fear.

Oh, yeah.

I'm always like, oh, my gosh, this new guy.

You know, I'm trying to fill this room.

I hope I do well tonight, and this guy's got the side of a building.

I'm like, good for him.

We started small.

Just handing them out on guitar picks.

Yeah, that's a great idea.

I didn't know what I wanted to do.

When I got out of college, I left college.

I didn't finish.

I went home for the summer, and my brother started doing improv.

and i was like i was bouncing at the time and i didn't know what i wanted to do uh but i didn't want to do this i just wanted to try something and i i always follow him into other things so he'd be like you're coming into you know whatever it is you know so i i i ended up doing a small community theater play and i said this you know then i started doing an improv group with him uh and their buddies and uh

I fell in love with then, and then it just progressed into standup.

And now I did my first standup first night was in 1989, July 26th, 1989.

That's how long I've been doing it.

And, uh, no, I loved it.

I mean, and, uh, I, I crushed the first night I ever did it, which I'm thankful for because the second night I ate it so bad with the same material and I didn't know, you know, and if I would have ate it first, I think I never would have done it again.

But, uh, so I'm thankful that I did okay.