Name: Dermot Kennedy on the Power of Believing in Your Own Journey
Uploaded: 2024-10-21T14:15:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dermot Kennedy on the Power of Believing in Your Own Journey' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dermot Kennedy on the Power of Believing in Your Own Journey' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-21. Transcript available.

yeah just now when you said like it used to be nice to be a surprise yeah dude
that was
the best yeah yeah that's one thing i miss the most about um you know i'm
grateful for having
like uh people come out and people get to know you and stuff but it was awesome
when only you
knew you of course in a way and you got to be this like you were like were
always your secret
because you're you right you and you build up this especially as a comedian you
build up this sort
of rapport with how to interact with the world and the surprise people are like
what how did what is
this guy like that always seemed interesting to me and then um people get to
know how your instrument
works or it's just the the surprise isn't there anymore and it's different
totally i mean that
moment i'm sure you feel this like that moment where you feel like you've
arrived and people know
who you are and and and yeah no longer do you surprise people and so you kind
of feel like you
have to change or deviate from what you're doing and and to try and keep that
feeling it's tough i
find it difficult i know like i know for myself yeah like i remember seeing a
thing an interview with
drake years ago and he was just saying that moment where people are sharing
your music and kind of say
you got to listen to this you'll never get that back again no matter how
successful you get um
because that's the most exciting part i don't know i think like for what you do
for what i do for
anyone involved in the arts i think the work is the only thing that's exciting
it's the only thing and
of course you play big shows and you have ambition and you try and grow your
career and all those
things are lovely but at the root of it if you're not like i always say you
could be miserable playing
in stadiums do you know what i mean or you could be completely content playing
shows like last night
so i think it's very important to keep that so when did you start to learn that
you had singing talent
i mean i i know that some of this will be like elementary stuff to you but for
some audience
that doesn't know you you know so like um yeah when did you start to learn that
because how do you go
from being like this sort of like it like like not recluse but sort of this
like quiet kid shadow
lurkering yeah yeah yeah of course uh good guy yeah yeah yeah my yeah we don't
want to make it sound
like a villain no but sort of this um this guy who's this patient person how do
you go from that
to like being able to like express yourself because dude yeah when you start it's
like there's a lot
of levels to what you do like sometimes i feel like there's like some mac miller
sometimes i feel
like there's like this dr seuss of like irish funerals going on there's so many
and then sometimes
it's just like this you almost feel like you're at a opera or something right
right you know yeah so
it's really impressive nice man thank you yeah i try and do a few different
things but i i remember my
sister played piano and she still does when we were kids and classic thing i
would just sing in the back
of the car and i remember my mom i was just loud you know i'm still loud and i
uh so yeah i just
started figuring out i played soccer quite seriously when i was a kid seriously
in my head and uh
and so music was like a secondary thing so i never worried about playing to
people because i was
i was thinking about playing football so i uh i would always it came quite easy
to me to play to people
because i didn't see it as being that important the first few times you know
and uh and so yeah
it just gradually became a thing i started realizing i wanted to write music i'd
go into town and like
do open mics and stuff oh you would yeah like dublin's so supportive that's
what i mean it's like
i know i was talking about notions and all that kind of stuff but it's just
like
it's a nice place i was 15 16 playing in these pubs and people would do
anything to help you you
know i don't know what it's like oh yeah yeah no that iris will do anything
yeah and they just if
they see some potential in you they'll just kind of say i know this person i
know that person be
careful with this and da da da and loads of advice and all that kind of thing
so um yeah just gradually
i mean like i'm 32 now so like i've been doing this since i was 19 i guess you
know what i mean
so it's a long road and i know we were talking about the red place to raise and
how they put time in
and i think if you get to a certain level there's very few people haven't had
that journey do you
know what i mean i know you had luke combs on here i know everybody's got their
journey in music
but like there's so much time you spend knowing you're good and being
frustrated that you don't
have a career you know what i mean so i think uh you just have to be patient it's
so like it's so
silly to me it's so kind of arbitrary in a way because it's like it's this
thing where you're like
you said like you're lurking in the shadows knowing you're good and but no one's
paying attention
and then out of nowhere people decide you're just really good and it's like i
knew that before
yeah but it just takes time yeah it is that is such a fine line there's a like
what's it like for you
you know what i mean like when you knew you had this potential but yeah i
thought that i was funny i
think i was sitting on a porch one day at school or in college and this kid's
like you should do
stand-up comedy man and i was like fuck you dude you're an idiot right and the
guy was an idiot
so i was right yeah but uh but yeah i eventually i started doing comedy you
know um but yeah there
were times you start to do good yeah and then you're like why why what you know
you see other
people like i'm doing but i think a lot of it's just time and it's like yeah
like weathering that
storm and then weathering that storm of like other people's careers have been
going they have to
have their successes and so that's just the way that time works do you feel do
you find that hard
sometimes when you see people like having massive moments yeah i know you are
too so it's probably
made easier by that i definitely did earlier on you know and then um yeah now
it's like you know
we're able able to sell out a club and able to sell out some spots so once you
can kind of do that
you start to feel a little bit more like in control that like at least okay at
least i'm doing my job
i think that's part of it too it's like hell it's hard to admit to somebody
that you're a comedian
like you know because everybody's funny and everybody has good stories
especially being from
louisiana so um like they don't even have any comedy clubs in louisiana because
people are so funny
just talking to them yeah yeah yeah so it's like i'm not gonna go pay seven
dollars and go in that
you know booze when my friend is funnier than that yeah yeah yeah yeah well
fucking randy out here
yeah did you spend a lot of time sort of doing sets and clubs with just oh yeah
tough ones yeah for
years man yeah i would drive and do all the sets yeah i think there was a part
of me that wanted to
be good at it of course and then i think after a while i think the art chooses
you because i didn't
end up getting married i didn't have a child so those things didn't kind of
like start to take up
my time so i was still available for it you know of course yeah yeah so yeah i
think there's there's
a moment kind of where some of the art chooses you um
Thank you.