How did you become involved with stand-up comedy?
I think I was always involved with stand-up in some way. I grew up when Comedy Central was just getting started. But personally, comedy comes from a place of joy and pain. My brain always notices the joke, or the potential for a joke, the just slightly askew perspective from what life appears to be. Joking was a way for me to avoid being bullied (not that it always worked), to size up and cut down with a quick comment, and to mock myself or the situation to relieve some pressure. The first time I ever performed a stand-up routine was in an undergraduate class at Georgia College & State University. It was terrible and inimitable. I remember feeling both the laughter of my classmates, the rhythm of a well-timed pause and the taste of profanity in my mouth.
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Carolina celebrates Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week
The Carolina community joins The Graduate School in promoting and celebrating Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week through several events.
Posted by University Communications, Monday, April 5th, 2021
Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill.
Dear Carolina Community,
The week of April 5-9 is Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week and we are honored to acknowledge and show our deep gratitude for more than 10,700 graduate and professional students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carolina has more than 80 graduate and professional programs offering 160 different degrees. Our graduate and professional students are world-class and represent the best of this University.