Trae Crowder

I need to go out in public and...

writer's development program that NBC had and all this stuff, so I was feeling pretty encouraged by it, but I was in complete anonymity. I had no following. No one knew who I was or anything like that. Couldn't sell any tickets or nothing. But I still was pleased enough with how it was going, and then I decided to make these Internet video at the time and stand up.

writer's development program that NBC had and all this stuff, so I was feeling pretty encouraged by it, but I was in complete anonymity. I had no following. No one knew who I was or anything like that. Couldn't sell any tickets or nothing. But I still was pleased enough with how it was going, and then I decided to make these Internet video at the time and stand up.

writer's development program that NBC had and all this stuff, so I was feeling pretty encouraged by it, but I was in complete anonymity. I had no following. No one knew who I was or anything like that. Couldn't sell any tickets or nothing. But I still was pleased enough with how it was going, and then I decided to make these Internet video at the time and stand up.

you know, be just as loud and redneck as they are, but just say a bunch of super liberal shit to like, you know, try to balance the scales.

And then I would literally just scream a bunch of like really, really liberal political talking points, but in the most redneck fashion that I could.

And it like, I closed with it.

It always worked.

Even in like, like small comedy clubs and like Southern cities and stuff like that.

I was closing with this bit about the simplest thing, but it was basically just on a set list. If I wrote it out, I called it the liberal redneck bit, but I never said the words liberal redneck on stage. It was basically I said, you know.

I was closing with this bit about the simplest thing, but it was basically just on a set list. If I wrote it out, I called it the liberal redneck bit, but I never said the words liberal redneck on stage. It was basically I said, you know.

I was closing with this bit about the simplest thing, but it was basically just on a set list. If I wrote it out, I called it the liberal redneck bit, but I never said the words liberal redneck on stage. It was basically I said, you know.

Like it always worked because it's wild to say now, but in that time, you know, 2015 ish and like,

It wasn't as charged, the politics.

It wasn't as divided, yeah.

Right, so people would...

Everybody that hears this accent assumes I'm one type of person, like a Bible thumping troglodyte, because that's the only time you ever hear this accent in the media. It's that type of person. Yep. But I'm not that type of person. So I got to figure something out to try to balance the scales. I got to find a way. I need to go out in public and...

Everybody that hears this accent assumes I'm one type of person, like a Bible thumping troglodyte, because that's the only time you ever hear this accent in the media. It's that type of person. Yep. But I'm not that type of person. So I got to figure something out to try to balance the scales. I got to find a way. I need to go out in public and...

Everybody that hears this accent assumes I'm one type of person, like a Bible thumping troglodyte, because that's the only time you ever hear this accent in the media. It's that type of person. Yep. But I'm not that type of person. So I got to figure something out to try to balance the scales. I got to find a way. I need to go out in public and...

there'd be plenty of people in the crowd who were like, they were conservative, but they would still laugh at that bit because it was just like, that's just a funny juxtaposition, you know?