A FEAR DUMP Ft. Joel Kim Booster | Episode 166
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What do Joel Kim Booster and Drew discuss in this episode?
Like, guys, you're going to want to see this. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I see it now. It's perfect. The vision is so clear to me. Hey, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of The Comment Section Show. Starring me, your fave, everybody knows me. Who cares about me? On to the guests today. We have the iconic, the talented, the legendary Joel Kim Booster. Woo!
Thank you so much for having me.
Oh, my gosh. Thank you for coming to the show.
I'm so excited. I hope your listeners know that you do shoot in a haunted elementary school. Yeah, I do. Many different sets.
I'm a man of many hats. Yeah, exactly. I'm also the principal of a haunted school. So, you know, I'm so busy. I was like, that's why I moonlight as a TikToker. That's my main job. But I'm glad you said haunted elementary school because the last person who, every time they go look, they get scared over there because it's obviously scary. But one of my friends told me, she goes, it looks like porn.
wow that's a little fucked up that i went uh haunted elementary school and then some it's like a rorschach test you know like whatever you see is like what you are inside i guess yeah you found out enfj yeah over there well i'm so excited to have you i think you're an icon oh thank you so much and we i've been trying to nail you down for a while oh my gosh right i've been chasing joel for a minute i'm so honored i'm a little horny now
Nipples hard.
Love to hear that. Nailed down and chased. Period.
But obviously I know you as a very successful producer, writer, actor, obviously stand-up comedian. Speaking of a man of many hats. But I do, for people who are unfamiliar with your lore, I would like to know how you got into entertainment, how you got into show business in general.
How did Joel Kim Booster get into stand-up comedy?
Yeah, I mean, listen, I have always loved attention like we all do. Right. And I was like a little... ham as a kid and I remember seeing my sister in a school play and like I was like I don't know like six and I was just like I want to do that and literally from that point forward that was all I was ever wanted to do really like there was a brief moment where I wanted to be a youth pastor so He said that was a brief. Don't know what that was. Yeah. And then I came out and quickly shift gears back over to wanting to be an actor. And like I went to theater school for performance, like musical theater. I did like one summer, a professional like summer stock musical theater and realized very quickly I did not like it enough to watch. to do it for the rest of my life.
Well, cause here's the thing. Like I realized like I'm a, I'm an okay actor. I was an okay singer. Could not dance to save my life. Physically dyslexic. Do not know left from right. And I was like, oh, I'm not good enough at this specific area. Like the thing is I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and like, Broadway and like musical theater and like community theater like that kind of stuff was like my only access to that's like my only conception for how you would be an actor yeah like doing musicals and like doing that stuff and being on Broadway and I soon realized like oh I'm not good enough at this like I was good enough to get into the school and I was good enough to like you know get parts in high school and stuff like that but like on a
professional level, I was like, I'm not going to be competing with people who could actually blow the roof off this place. Yeah, you're like, this isn't my team. As a young person, as a 20-something and trying out for Broadway roles, you're only ever going to get cast in the ensemble. And that's if you can dance. And I was like, so I'm fucked. So I went back to school. Oh, drop that dream. And so I went back to school and I, um, changed my major to playwriting.
Okay.
Um, because I was like, you know, I've always been interested in writing as well. And I, um, had started to write like, uh, plays that I would direct at school in the student theater. And that's, and it just felt more sort of, um, I don't know, gratifying to me in a lot of ways. Because I did my first one and everyone was like, wow, that was so great.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do Joel Kim Booster and Drew discuss in this episode?
0:12–2:04
2
How did Joel Kim Booster get into stand-up comedy?
2:04–9:47
3
What was the inspiration behind Fire Island?
9:47–23:15
4
What are the challenges of stand-up comedy in the digital age?
23:15
5
How do different audiences affect a comedian's performance?
22:47–26:11
6
What are common misconceptions about stand-up comedy?
26:11–31:40
7
What feedback did Joel receive about Fire Island?
31:40–34:00
8
How does Joel balance personal life and career?
34:00–1:19:38
Speakers
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