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We're Having a Good Time

How To Become A Comic, Step 9: Quitting Your Day Job and Going Full Time Comedy

We're Having a Good Time

Dusty Slay

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Stand-up, Christianity

4.8862 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dusty Slay and Hannah Hogan launch a new 10 part series on how to comic a comedian. Week 9: Quitting your day job and going full time comedy. Plus, Dusty talks show at The Blue Room Comedy Club and Hannah and Dusty have another car fight.

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0:00.0

One's from the trailer park, one's from the farm, rings on their fingers, no babies on their arms, taking life a grain of salt and light.

0:18.0

Vivit, love it, laughing, We're having a good time.

0:23.1

Nothing too deep won't tell you how to vote.

0:26.6

Two stand-up comics with stories from the road.

0:30.1

We're cutting up really ain't no crime.

0:35.7

Living, loving, laughing. All right, welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the We're Having a Good Time podcast.

0:42.6

My name's Dussie Sleigh, and I'm here with my lovely co-host, Hannah Hogan.

0:47.1

Hi, it's me, lovely Hannah.

0:48.9

All right, and we are back with another edition of The We're Having a Good Time podcast, How to Become a Comic.

0:57.3

And this is week nine.

0:59.4

Wow, season two.

1:01.3

And this episode is going to be quitting your job and doing comedy full time.

1:07.6

Whoa.

1:09.0

And I don't know.

1:16.0

I can't tell you how to do it. I can't tell you how to make this happen. It's going to be different for everyone. But what I do want to get across in this episode is it is a

1:24.3

necessary thing. It needs to happen. If you're going to be a comedian at some point

1:29.6

you have to decide this is going to be my job and uh you got to you know because making it your job

1:38.4

forces you to work hard enough to make the money you need to pay your bills and it forces you

1:43.8

to get better at comedy.

1:45.6

So I'm going to go through that.

1:48.0

I'm going to share my story and me and Hannah will share some thoughts.

1:52.5

But first, where we've been, where we're going.

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