327 - Dante Nero: From Stripping to Comedy: How to Switch Careers

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Dante Nero was a male stripper for 10 years. And now he’s a comedian. He was always intrigued by comedy. But before he went up on any stage, he made sure his fundamentals were impeccable. And that’s key. This is what makes Dante Nero one of the...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.6	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.6	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	I've seen you perform a lot and I've always thought each one was like I've never seen
0:19.0	you bomb.
0:20.0	The very first time I thought you were all crowd work and it was all hilarious.
0:23.3	Now I know there's a lot more structure in it that you have the spine and the crowd
0:27.1	works around it.
0:28.6	Think of it as you're painting a picture and you have a palette of different colors,
0:33.6	right?
0:34.6	But those palettes type of joke double entendre, lists misdirection.
0:39.5	But it's also tone is another set of colors.
0:43.4	Characters is another set of colors.
0:46.6	Crowd work is another set.
0:48.6	So there's people who understand comedy on a technical level and there's people who
0:52.9	are just funny individuals.
0:55.4	You have to be so equipped with all these micro skills and know which micro skills you
1:01.4	got to go to at the moment and has to happen instantaneously.
1:05.3	So how do you learn that?
1:13.6	Got Dante Nero here.
1:14.6	Dante's one of my favorite comedians.
1:16.3	Dante, how's it going?
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