Welcome back to the basement yard on this episode. I got Kate Wolfe. Hi. Who if you don't know she is my co-host on another podcast called Invasion of Privacy so you could check that out if you enjoy this and if you don't then fuck you. All right. That's it. Of course they're gonna enjoy this.

But Kate is a stand-up comedian for how many years now? I've been doing stand-up for a little bit over five years. I know it sounds like I'm given like a corny interview but like I really didn't like it. I'm a member.

Yeah, you don't know. I thought it was honestly I would guess like three to four but it has been five. It's been five. Yeah. Five years. I thought when I started that five years in I was gonna be like Amy Schumer famous by now.

But she was not not living in a loft with my child. Wasn't Amy Schumer doing comedy for like ever? No, she's been doing it for a while but she actually started doing well pretty early on. Like she got super famous lately. But even before that she was semi-famous.

She's been in Comedy Central for years and she was on the Ellen DeGeneres show like I feel like I haven't heard Amy Schumer's name before like last year. And it's interesting because the movie Trainwreck like I saw fucking hilarious. I thought it was a great movie but like in that movie they had like a Marj Stadamar was coming off of a knee surgery which was like really old news. So I'm like when the fuck did they film this? You know what I mean?

So it's like I don't know I guess that movie came out like a year or two after it was like in production. I'm sure I'm sure she was writing it for at least a year. Right movies take a while to make. No they don't. They don't. Okay they take two months that's it. I don't fucking know. So anyway I was kind of interested because I mean a lot of people have been telling me I actually do stand up comedy. I've really been thinking about it. I've been trying to get you to do it for a while. I know a lot of people are like why don't you it doesn't make fucking the sense that you don't. I'm like I know.

But let's just say I was like I'm down right now. You know what I mean? You're a seasoned vet with five years on your belt. Yeah. I got zero.

You would do really well though because you already have so much material like you could honestly take a lot from your videos if you wanted to. You write jokes all the time. Right.

You know so you would be able to use that if you wanted and yeah you just already have that kind of stage presence you'd be fine.

It wouldn't be like a typical person starting from scratch. Like when I first started I was never in front of a camera.

The first time I was in front of a camera after I started comedy it looked like a deer in headlights. It was ridiculous.

Did you ever have like obviously you don't but like stage fright the first time you don't eat a thing. Are you kidding?

So I did a mic and took me a month to prepare. How many people were in the crowd? No. First of all I brought 25 people with me the first time.

So I was such a nerd. Really? They all were so excited for me. I would be the complete opposite of like no one come. I just I don't I just want to do this.

No, I didn't know that wasn't normal. So like they loved it at the mic because it was a show for everyone now. Yeah.

Because normally go to a mic it's like you have six comics there and it's really sad. But no I brought a whole crowd.

And but I was so nervous. I thought I was going to throw up pass out. Like I remember probably 20 minutes from when on stage I remember thinking you can just run out the door right now.

Like just get up and run. Yeah I think about that all the time. I remember one time I didn't want to go to LA. I had to get out I had a flight to LA and I was like what?

Like maybe if I just smash a rock over my knee like I won't have to go brutal. That's why worse than just running out the door.

But so how did it go? Was it a disaster? No I mean when I watch it now it's brutal. Oh you got it on film. Yeah. Oh that's great. Yeah I can show you. It's really embarrassing though.

But it's brutal because I don't breathe. I just I've met it's all memorized. So I just blow through the material. You can see just how nervous I am.

But for first time it was great. Right. And I knew once I got off stage that this was what I was meant to be doing because I was teaching at the time.

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