EP 056 with John Norris

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 152 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode, Cody has a conversation with Anchorage comedian John Norris. John’s parents were pastors for the Salvation Army, so a good portion of his upbringing was spent moving around. He says that in order to make friends in these new places, you could either be good at sports or be funny. John chose to be funny. He says that he doesn’t exactly remember a defining moment that really pushed him toward comedy, but that he listened to a lot of comedy albums as a kid and watched a lot of stand-up on Comedy Central. Then, when he was about 23, he did his first open mic at the Wood Shed, a bar in Anchorage that has since closed. It’s been about 10 years since that first open mic and he’s still at it, the difference being he’s now an integral part of the local comedy scene. John likes to make people laugh, but more importantly he likes to watch his friends make people laugh. His experience in the Alaska stand-up scene—telling jokes, hanging out and laughing with friends, and opening up for headliners—is something he wants to share with other fans of comedy. So, he started Bear Bones Comedy, a small promotion company that’s trying to bring comedians up to Alaska. The idea is to establish a consistently funny show that features headliners and local comedians.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. In this episode, I have a conversation with Anchorage comedian John Norris.
0:16.6	John's parents were pastors for the Salvation Army, so a good portion of his upbringing
0:21.3	was spent moving around. He says that in order to make
0:24.4	friends in these new places you could either be good at sports or be funny.
0:28.5	John chose to be funny. He says that he doesn't exactly remember a defining moment that really
0:34.7	pushed him toward comedy but that he listened to a lot of comedy albums as a
0:38.7	kid and watched a ton of stand-up on comedy Central. Then when he was about 23 he did his first
0:45.4	open mic at the woodshed, a bar in Anchorage that has since closed. It's been about
0:50.5	ten years since that first open mic and he's still at it.
0:54.3	The difference being, now he's an integral part of the local comedy scene.
0:58.7	Okay, time to give the crude company men a shout out.
1:03.4	These are the people who have subscribed to the crude Patreon
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