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Michelle Obama

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IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Sometimes I'd watch it with my mom and everything.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And so I've always had that deep love for it.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And then I moved to Chicago from Louisiana after college to start doing comedy.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And so I was doing open mics at night and then I was working during the day.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And sometimes I would like,

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Worked so early in the morning that the mic was like, I'm not going to sleep.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Like I'm going to have to go to the mic, then get up.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Then get up and do your life.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Yeah.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And then got to a better situation, got like a different job and got.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

the most ideal schedule you could ask for as like a working comic.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

I got a shift that was from 10 a.m.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

to 6 p.m.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And from there, I started getting past it, more clubs, because it was a lot like a dam breaking.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Like anything that you do, especially with like artistic,

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

um artistic pursuits there is a a sort of snowball effect and then someone takes a chance on you it makes someone else more likely to take a chance on you and everything and so that interest sort of begets more interest and so and so i got past it pretty much all the clubs in chicago and that's when i decided to move to new york because i sort of hit a ceiling and everything and

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And so I moved with some friends and then we were going out together once again, like doing mics, trying to get on shows and everything.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

I did.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

I went to college in Louisiana.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Got it.