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Jay Pharaoh: ...don't be afraid to be yourself

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this NTM Nugget from Jay Pharaoh, a Saturday Night Live alum best known for impersonating people like Barack Obama and Kanye West.  Today, he's on the road as a stand up comedian and has some great wisdom to share with us about what he's learned during his career.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Laura Owens here with a special Nobody Told Me Nugget for you.

0:06.1

Jay Farrow is a well-known comedian, best known for his years, on Saturday Night Live,

0:11.1

impersonating people like Barack Obama and Kanye West.

0:14.4

Today he's on the road as a stand-up comedian, and I was lucky enough to ask him,

0:18.8

what's your Nobody Told Me Lesson?, what's your nobody told me lesson?

0:21.6

I wish somebody would have told me to F the crowd and not F the crowd, but F what people

0:29.3

think about you and don't be afraid to be yourself on stage no matter what.

0:35.6

How long do you think it took you to learn that?

0:38.2

I probably learned that about, what, three years ago probably just i'm serious like before it was nothing but

0:44.6

yo i was masking myself with all it is all all it is so all the impressions and the voices and things

0:50.5

and i wasn't i wasn't letting people see who I was and now people can see if you watch

0:56.3

my stuff now vice versa or vice versus the stuff that you've seen before like anything from I would

1:02.5

say 2015 and back don't watch on that if you watch the stand-up stuff from 2016 and above like

1:09.2

you'll see like you're all that's he's coming into his

1:11.7

own and I didn't know that and you like watching yourself more now oh yeah oh yeah I hate that

1:16.5

and my my body look weirder when I was younger and when I was 24 I had I had Quest love hips

1:21.9

and I ain't like that at all yeah I was big on the bottom I looked like I was a bad bitch from

1:26.6

the waist down.

1:29.9

So delete everything from 2015 on.

1:31.2

Nobody told you.

1:31.9

2015 before.

1:32.3

Before.

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