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The Process with Jude Brewer

STORYBOUND: Tommy Davidson

The Process with Jude Brewer

Jude Brewer

Science, Technology, Society & Culture

4.8763 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Davidson reads an excerpt from "Living in Color," backed by an original Storybound remix with sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Tommy Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian in Washington DC, and since then, he's done it all. His standup career has led him to share bills with the likes of Patti LaBelle and Kenny G, and he was a cast-member on the hit show "In Living Color," also starring Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey, and Damon Wayans. He's done three specials for Showtime and appeared on Disney's "The Proud Family" and Spike Lee's "Bamboozled." His book, "In Living Color," released in 2020, details his journey in show business and how he found success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunch break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go on some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org

0:29.4

for our final episode this season I'm happy to welcome author, and actor Tommy Davidson onto the show.

0:38.2

Reading from his book, Living in Color.

0:41.0

Hey, this is Tommy Davidson and you're listening to Storybound. Showtime at the Apollo.

1:01.0

I was performing in DC, first at the Penn House, and then at the Ibex and triples. I was doing comedy at places that weren't purely comedy clubs.

1:14.6

That was good for me to get my feet at first.

1:17.6

You're just out there, you know what I mean?

1:19.6

You can't quite believe what you're doing in there.

1:23.6

It's exciting and exhilarating.

1:25.6

It's frightening and scary. And it's a drug, it's a high.

1:30.3

I was doing comedy, performing for almost a year before I even went into the comedy club

1:35.4

in DC.

1:36.4

Actually, I'd never been in one before, but I started going to this open mics at places like

1:43.1

Garvins. They had open mic at the improv in DC around then too.

1:48.0

But I had not broken in there yet.

1:51.0

Once I took to the stage, I needed to educate myself about black entertainers,

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