Name: Did the Trenches Support Ed Sheeran Early On?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Did the Trenches Support Ed Sheeran Early On?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Did the Trenches Support Ed Sheeran Early On?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-27. Transcript available.

Somebody said that you used to do like open, go to comedy mics. Did you ever?
Not for me to do comedy, but I used to do it to, actually, no, I did actually.
I did, I used to
play with this, they're an improvisational rap group called Abandaman and he
was a comedian who
rapped and made, he basically would be like, they had a song called What's in
Your Pocket and he
would rap about what was in everyone's pockets and make it funny. So I played
with them for a bit,
but no, for me, it was more the scene that I was a part of was very cliquey and
very like the cool
kids over here. And I was always part of the misfits and you would go and play
these gigs where everyone
on the lineup would have an acoustic guitar and they'd all be singing love
songs and I'd just be
another one of them, just not as good. I wasn't, I was 17, not 25. I had, my
songs were very like
rudimentary and like not great. And I saw, I found like this guy, actually my
best mate Jamal,
ran a YouTube channel that was primarily rap and he put me on that channel. And
then suddenly there
was a whole group of people that were like, Oh, we actually quite like this
acoustic music. So I
would turn up at a hip hop nights first and grime nights and soul nights and,
and I would play and I
would get a better reaction because it was just different. It was something
that would stand out.
Whereas I did not stand out in the acoustic scene because it was just the same
as everyone,
everyone else. And so, and then I started playing comedy, comedy nights, poetry
nights. I would turn
up at different things. I used to get roasted whilst the toughest gig I ever,
ever played. It was an
all black comedy night in central London called the Sunday show. And I was
booked for this show. And as
I was setting up my guitar, the guy on stage was roasting me being like, what
the fuck is this white
kid doing with this tiny guitar and blah, blah, blah. And it was probably one
of the best gigs of my
life. I got on stage. I instantly, I instantly went into a rap tune. I dropped
this song and this song
and this song. And the reaction was better than anywhere. Cause I think people
were expecting me
to fail and because I didn't, it was even better. And, uh, yeah. And those, I
think that is what gave me
my first bit of success, my first buzz, the buzz within, uh, the kind of grime
and rap community
in, in the, the UK. I think that was the first place I felt welcomed and
accepted and celebrated
and still, and still is like, I still feel more love and appreciation from the
misfits.
- No, from the, from the grime and rap community. Yeah. In, in the UK.
- Interesting. Yeah. You know, that's such a good idea, dude, like to take
whatever your thing is
and put it into go to the space that's different because then you're the
different thing.
- It wasn't, to be honest, it wasn't like an idea. It wasn't like a light bulb
moment where I was like,
this is what I was doing. - But even when you say it though, it makes me think
like, that's,
it really is like, there's no way you can't help but stand out. Right? So like,
I think it has to happen organically though. Cause I feel like if Jamal hadn't
put me on his channel
and he put me on his channel, the Sunday show booked me for their comedy night.
I did that.
And then whilst at the comedy night, okay, it's a very organic thing. I think
had I just turned up
at the Sunday show, they'd be like, yeah. And maybe it wouldn't have gone the
same way.
- Right. Oh, that's a good point. That's a good point. But you have to change
up the environment
that you're in and really challenge yourself. That's pretty brave. Yeah. I used
to do some black shows,
like predominantly black shows in the States, dude. It was hard sometimes.
- But when you killed it, you killed it. - Oh, you killed it, dude.
Yeah. And people would stop. - Basically very, but I bet it's either like,
you kill it or you bomb. There's no in between. There's no like, all right
shows.
- And when you don't do good in front of a black audience as a white guy,
you feel the pain of hundreds of years.
You feel, I mean, my pain traveled all the way back to England in a boat and,
and then got off and experienced more pain. I was like, how much pain is inside
of me?
Dude. I remember tears coming out of like the inside of my throat.
And I was like, I didn't know I had tear ducts in my foot.
- Is that the worst that you bumped?
- No, I fucking bombed pretty good over the years, Eddie. I, um, yeah, I've had
some bad ones.
I've had one where you came out. It was like a battle of the bands at a school.
You had to come out
between all the bands. They didn't know. They just thought you had to come out
in the beginning.
They boo me off stage. They don't have to go out six more times, dude.
- Wow. - And every time it just...
- I feel like the boo, like I've been...
- My eyebrows, sorry to interrupt you,
but one time the, the, I was so shocked.
One of my fucking eyebrows fell out of my head.
From, um, like it's called, uh...
- So what makes you appreciate it though?
I feel like anyone that has had success on stage has had to have been booed,
have things chucked at them, have moments where...
- The shock, the trauma, some girls like something's on your shirt.
And it was my fucking eyebrow dude. Like...
I was like, oh shit.
Yeah. So that kind of stuff to not be able to protect your tear ducts from the
wind
just because you had a bad set, dude, that's the kind of shit that people do
that we do not need to be going through. Um,
that's the kind of thing that we do not need to be able to protect your tear
ducts from the wind.
And that's the kind of thing that we do not need to be able to protect your
tear ducts from the wind.
And that's the kind of thing that we do not need to be able to protect your
tear ducts from the wind.
And that's the kind of thing that we do not need to protect your tear ducts
from the wind.