The Art of Leadership Network. You're just constantly going on stage and you don't get to practice in the garage like a musician and bring it out when it's ready. You're constantly building it in low-stake environments. You're still performing in front of people, but I'm going to The Laughing Skull, Open Mic in Atlanta for four minutes to try three new things. If it doesn't go well, I go, cool, yeah. If it's going well all the time, I'm not taking enough risks. so I'm almost built building

a minutes to try three new things. If it doesn't go well, I go, cool, yeah, it's not supposed to, if it's going well all the time, I'm not taking enough risks. So I'm almost built,

building into my content generation, like, I'm supposed to fail this amount.

Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Kerry here. I hope the fall is treating you well. Can you believe 2026 is almost over? I cannot. This was a different kind of year. So we thought we'd bring you some comment today. I love studying comedians. And I have them on here from time to time. John Christ is coming back on the show soon, but I sat down with

Andrew Stanley. Not Andy, but Andrew. And if you followed his work, a lot of people in the church have,

you know what a brilliant comedian he is. And if you haven't, well, you're really going to enjoy it.

We talk about clean comedy, his journey as a preacher's son who studied finance and accounting

and how he actually got out

and how he has risen to perform with people like Colin Jost, Leanne Morgan, John Christ and others.

And I mean, he just started this a few years ago.

So I think you're really going to enjoy this conversation.

You can hear Andrew regularly on Sirius XM radio.

He was selected as the new face of comedy at Montreal's very prestigious Just for Laf's Comedy Festival. He appeared on Nate

Bergetse's The Showcase in 2023. And his parents are still alive, as he says, so he still works clean.

I think you're really going to like this. Hey, I know a lot of you are preachers, and I can talk like this for 40 minutes, no problem, I can give a message, a keynote,

I can write a book, can I do five minutes of stand up? No. Tried at once at Family Talent Showcase.

So I'm fascinated about how they do it, how comedy works, and that's why I'm bringing you

this conversation. One more thing before we dive into the interview, Andrew was with us at the

Art of Leadership Live in Dallas, Texas this year. That's the annual live event I do. Stay tuned for

details about Art of Leadership Live, 2026. We sold out this year. We're going to sell out again.

Next year, actually, pre-sales going to sell out again next year. Actually,

pre-sales were off the chart for next year's event. But I surprised everybody by bringing

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