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Chapter 1: What inspired Dulcé Sloan to pursue a career in comedy?
Kings Network. It's actually something new that I've been trying as an organic intro because I have found my introductions to be starched and stiff.
You want me to do it?
I would, actually. Okay, what do I say? I would like you to introduce DulceSloan.com is where you get the tickets. She's a former Daily Show correspondent, but I will let you do it. Go ahead, you do it.
Hello, friends. Welcome to the Dan LeBretard Show. And I'm the guest for today, Dulce Sloan, a former Daily Show correspondent and host. an author, and podcast host, a truly hilarious stand-up, and you can see me on tour at DulceSloan.com slash tour.
I also have a lip gloss company with comedian Lace Larrabee, GiggleGloss.com, and I have started a ministry to let people know that you do not have to suffer through broke men the way I have suffered at NoMoreBrokeDick.com. We have pillow covers, mirrors, pouches, all... All the motivational things that you need to make sure.
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Chapter 2: How did Dulcé's early jobs shape her comedic journey?
Stickers, magnets to make sure that there won't be a broke man in your home. Now, I'm on the show today. I heard this was a sports thing.
Well, it's not a sports thing. It's meant to be biographical and tell people about your life. Show them insight into funny people, creative people. Show them how it is that you became creative. What are the roots of that creativity? How you got your funny.
Man, that's why I came dressed as Field Pitch. Because I thought that this is a sports podcast. So I'd come on and learn about sports and find a nice man. But now we're in the biographical room. I ain't seen no Jersey. I walked in, I was like, ain't now Jersey in here?
Chapter 3: What challenges did Dulcé face while working on The Daily Show?
There's no dirty microphones.
You thought you were doing a sports show. You thought you were coming in here. You came in here with no understanding of what it is you're doing.
No, no, no. I looked it up and I kept seeing a lot of sports stuff. So I was like, sports stuff. And then I walked in, I'm just like, oh man, this is very deep thinking. This is very, so let's talk about you.
What did Roy tell you? Did you get some, you got some crib notes from Roy.
I asked Roy and Roy was like, it's sports and pop culture. But this isn't giving.
No, it's not. Okay, we'll work on the decor.
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Chapter 4: How does Dulcé incorporate her identity into her comedy?
You're right. It's not giving sports or pop culture. No, it's not giving sports or pop culture.
This is like, so tell me.
You know what? This will give you some so tell me, though. A whole moss wall? You know what?
There's so many natural colors in here.
I was just complaining to the producer of South Beach Sessions. I was just saying that it's my fault that these don't have more range. Because I talk to the comedians, and then we go into the pain. We go into the grief. We go into some of the places that are so tell me. Oh, this is the South Beach Sessions one.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Dulcé offer about the comedy industry?
Yeah, but I think that you're right, that it's the environment, that I need some more things in here to make it more playful.
Well, this isn't South Beach-y. No. As someone who was born in Miami, and we lived there for a time... This is very California. Yeah. The hexagon, very natural shape, very sacred shape from what I hear. I don't know. I'm a Christian. But yeah, it's giving very we're going to we're going to figure that everything's natural tones.
Everything's calming tones, which is like I said, I thought I was going to be dressed like the green of a football field or baseball field or field or a putting green or a putting green or a baseball field. Honestly, to pull a baseball player. Smart. They get the least amount of head injuries and they have the best union.
Tell me about the Miami flea market days.
Chapter 6: How does Dulcé's perspective on political humor differ from others?
Let's go back to the beginning. So tell me.
So basically, so I was born in Miami. Me and my mom were born in Miami in the same hospital. And then my father and my brother were born in Oklahoma City. They split. We moved to Colorado and then we moved to Atlanta. And all of this happened before I started kindergarten. And then we moved back to Miami and my grandpa got sick. And so we were working. My mom is starting a clothing company.
Well, she started a clothing company in Atlanta. She made little girls clothes. I was kind of the model and stuff. And so in Miami, we worked in this flea market in Florida City and she sold clothes and she sold hair.
Chapter 7: What lessons did Dulcé learn from her experiences in stand-up?
And then I started selling toys. Because I would see grown men selling toys. And sometimes he would ask me to help him. And I'm like, hmm, he does very well when I'm standing here. I need my own company. And so my mother took me to a wholesale toy place, got me some inventory. And so I was selling toys. And then when my grandpa passed away, we moved back to Atlanta.
And I stayed in Atlanta until I moved to L.A. until 2016.
What were you good at?
I've always had a lot of jobs. I've always worked because I've been working since I was nine. I was always good at getting a job, but I always hated jobs because I was like, I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not supposed to be sitting in some office making some white man's dream come true.
Chapter 8: What advice does Dulcé have for aspiring comedians?
That's what every job is, is sitting in an office making some white man's dream come true. So I was like, I got to get out of here and make my own dreams come true. And then I started doing... Stand up in 2009. And I didn't expect to be doing it in this year in May. It'll be 17 years that I've been doing stand up.
So when you said make your own dreams, though, what did those look like back then?
Well, I wanted to be an actor. I mean, I am an actor, but I'm more a performer because the goal was always to make a living as a performer. I never wanted to sit in an office all day, just sitting in an office all day just felt like it's factory work. It's just a different kind of factory. Instead of putting windshields and Buicks, you're pushing paper or sending an email.
It's still like repetitive work. And even as a comic, like you're still like, you get your jokes down and you tell those jokes, you tell those jokes and then you sell those jokes and then you have to come up with more jokes. So work in, work by definition is repetitive. And so as someone who doesn't enjoy repetitive things, the travel behind standup gets me to break that
monotony because every show is different even though you're telling the same jokes how you tell the jokes is different always based on how the audience interprets them so as much as it's the same it's different but sometimes you get tired of doing your sets you're just like all right me and my home with the mustard museum you want to hear about it and then the first time you're set is you and your friend at the mustard museum because you're in madison wisconsin why not
So you were always creative, though? So you knew that you're saying a performer, but you knew at nine years old? Okay, so you know at six that you're going to be somebody who's going to be in front of people and going to have the confidence of her performance to carry her.
Mm-hmm. Because my mother told me a story. She told me when I was a kid, and I don't remember doing this. I was like four years old. I think we were in...
where we were living maybe when we live in Colorado and we're at the doctor's office and I'm going around the top doctor's office pretending I could tap dance I guess I'd seen she said I'd seen somebody tap dance on TV I guess I wanted to learn and so I'm like four and I'm like clicking and clacking on these doctor's office with sandals on and this lady she said this lady looked at over at me she goes oh my goodness you tap dance I said yeah she said you're very good and my mom said I looked at her and said and I never had a lesson and I'm just like and she went okay this is what I got
um but I remember like I remember auditioning so we moved back to Miami went to magnet school and I was auditioning for the theater program because I wanted to be because it was decided when I was six I was going to be an actor and uh I auditioned for the theater program and the lady lady running the theater department was just Little bit racist.
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