I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bicari Stokes podcast.

Today we have somebody who is just an amazing, amazing person and an infectious personality and very very talented none other than Miss Sherry

Sheppard how are you?

Hi Vakari how are you?

I'm doing well. I'm glad I'm glad that you're doing well. This has been this has been a year to say the least but I'm glad you're doing well.

Oh, thank you so much. I'm having a good time.

Good ticket. So my show is unique because we start each one of our conversations by having our guest walk us through the arc of their career and while everyone knows today Sherry Sheppard they may not know how you got your start in the business.

Can you talk to listeners about how you broke into the business and how you've been able to build

and sustain a successful career in Hollywood?

Oh man, I think, you know, just being a legal secretary when I worked in Beverly Hills I just you know it was just so boring we would go there work go home go to sleep go there work and one day I said to the other secretaries about eight of them I said let's go do something different and I got us tickets to the comedy store and we went to the comedy store and before this show started, I was making a lot of the people around me laugh. And Andrew Dice Clay got on stage and he was making everybody mad because that's what he used to do the hickory-digry dock be beep beep and a lady turned around and she said you're as funny as he you should get on that stage and do that and she just just planted a seed. Just goes to show you, you really have to watch what you say to people because you have the power to destroy them or plan a seed. And she planted the seed and I remember talking to Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Griffin that night and they really encouraged me to do stand up and I started it I would go to like all these little open mic nights, take the bus there, walk back home, but I love being on stage making people laugh.

I couldn't get enough of it and I've always done that my whole career and I just got into acting and you know that struggle of trying to book a job

I've lost out so many roles to people who are big and and but I I kept pursuing it. It just was a dream and same thing with the talk show. I always had a dream to be a talk show. So it would be a talk show host, excuse me.

So to see all this play out.

Thank you.

I'm having fun.

So look, there's a lot to cover about what you've been up to.

So let's first talk about your stand up because you're actively still

on stage doing your thing because you know sometimes when y'all get famous and

start them checks get bigger you know y'all don't y'all don't hit the stage as much

what's where's your show in New York this weekend

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