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How Do You Become a Stand-Up Comic? Featuring Mark Ellis!

Only Stupid Answers

Only Stupid Answers

Tv & Film

4.8895 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

How can you overcome stage fright? Mark Ellis joins DJ and Roxy to answer your questions about what it takes to become a great stand-up comic and MORE!

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Theme Music by: Steven James Schmidt

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0:00.0

What does it take to become a great stand-up comic?

0:02.2

We answer that question and more this week to only stupid answers. This is the show where we answer

0:21.1

your questions about movies TV shows comic books

0:23.0

comedy yes I am your host DJ Waldridge with me as always is Roxie Strider

0:28.7

hello Roxie. What's up DJ? Boom got finished that coffee drink in the nick of time,

0:34.0

just squeaked it in there.

0:35.4

It's a tea, that's why it's always gonna be rocks, tea.

0:39.8

Wait, we talked about tea on a Q&A, I believe. Do you not drink coffee?

0:45.0

Not yet. I've never tried to sip.

0:48.0

Okay. But when I say I do not drink coffee people automatically assume I have like some kind of moral opposition or like we'll never try coffee and really truly what's happened is I just haven't done it yet. I don't know what happened. I just I haven't tried yet.

1:06.0

Yeah, see for me I don't drink coffee I have tried it, but I'm I have the palette of a toddler which is if it's anything you have to acquire a taste for

1:14.4

no thank you so it's like here's coffee that tastes like a ground dirt no thanks not for me

1:20.7

thank you Mark what's your stance on coffee? I'm not a big fan of hot liquid mud. So I prefer tea. I prefer the ice form of tea as Roxie Well Knows and Roxanne is holding out for the right moment to try coffee.

1:37.6

Now I've actually had coffee before and I haven't always hated it but it just seems like it's a lot of work in the morning too.

1:45.0

Here's the problem with me is that as soon as I get my food or beverage, it's in my golet.

1:50.0

I'm not waiting. Like I'm the kid that burns the roof of their mouth every time that you

1:54.4

just like some pizza. Because it looks too good, you can't wait. So with coffee, I can't

1:59.2

stand getting coffee and then you have to wait another 10 to 15 minutes where you can actually drink it.

2:03.9

Like I want ice tea and as soon as I get it in my hand, it's gone.

2:08.1

Yeah. It is such a weird concept that we make drinks too hot to drink.

2:14.0

Why do they do that?

2:16.4

Why not make them hot enough to drink when they're still good?

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