Name: Inside the Mind of Izzy Adesanya
Uploaded: 2024-03-07T15:30:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Inside the Mind of Izzy Adesanya' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-07. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Inside the Mind of Izzy Adesanya' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-07. Transcript available.

dude i've watched the documentary man it was really cool thank you it was
really interesting
for you to just like share about like it felt like what it's like to to like
not only kind of
to be to have some of your history but then also to like the pressures of how
things change once
you achieve your dreams and your goals and then how some of that feels like it
doesn't really
fulfill maybe what you thought it was gonna do yeah um like i could relate to
that a ton man i'm sure
wait when did you when did you kind of like like blow up what what age would
you say i would say
like five years ago i think work started getting busier for me probably maybe
about five years ago
you would have been yeah i'm glad i didn't find fame at a young age like say 25
year old izzy
with everything that i have now bad idea yeah hey tio bad idea that's that's
that's a story for
later on but um yeah i'm glad i found fame later on but but still you know they
say be careful what
you wish for yeah and i don't regret anything i'm ready i prepared for this
life but it's it's still
surprising yeah there's levels there's all these variables you don't expect wow
even when i first
moved to new zealand i was in a little town called rotura and yeah one of the
only black families
there and you would have seen in the documentary yeah i saw it definitely uh
even when i went back
to the creek i used to play at oh yes all those kids they were amped up whoa
and i'm like yeah bro i
used to play on this creek because my house was literally right there and it's
i'm surprised it's
still there it was beautiful um but again one of the only black kids so people
didn't understand so they'd
pick on me but my way of getting around that was dancing dance was my well got
my like street cred
yeah oh it was incredible man watching the documentary was cool like because
one thing i
learned a lot is that just you're such an inner you like to be an entertainer
huh yeah you just love
it i love it it's fun yeah because i'm i think for me early on it was just to
get people to like me
yeah that's in back in nigeria or when i lived in ghana for a brief it was just
my way of expressing
myself but when i moved to this country and i realized i danced better than
everybody in my school
i was like okay that's my thing yeah so then i kept on and i tried to make
people like me just
so i could fit in oh yeah again not everyone's gonna like you and i didn't
understand how to deal
with that when i was 13 14 12. oh yeah you know like especially if nobody's
telling you how to deal
with it i'm trying to do that now with the young guys that's so important i try
and tell them like
because i try and be honest with them this is this is where i'm at in my career
this is when i was your
age i was here and i give it to them raw like let them know the truth without
sugar coating it and
then they appreciate that because then they can take from they'll make their
own mistakes you know
yeah i can take from my mistakes and try not to make the same mistakes or dumb
mistakes that i made
yeah uh i lost my train of thought we were just talking about the inspiration
for the kids i mean
just like the fact that some kid could like they wanted me to be something
prestigious but nah i'm i just
i'm a dreamer i'm a daydreamer i could sit there and i still i still do emotes
as a 34 year old yeah
i'll just be in the gym and you see me emoting but my head is somewhere else oh
yeah same man i think
sometimes yeah i got late to the emote game i think somehow and a lot of the
shit's still dropping off
sometimes you know i'll just do make my own ones up and i yeah i'm a creative
person and i feel like
it's just how you express yourself i'm this is this game of life it's it's it's
a game of life it's a
dangerous game of life if you make it but i feel like you can play the game how
you want to play the
game this is your avatar this is your character you can customize this however
you want regardless of
what anyone else thinks you know as long as you're not hurting anyone unless it's
signed on the contract
but just doing you it's the best way when i'm on the golf course i mean i'm not
trying to even flex
but i got pretty good i want to see it i can't believe it i got i got pretty
good in about how
many months let me say i got pretty good i'll send you guys this clip as well i
got pretty good in
about five months so this is me now it's not bad i sent that to the moon i was
like ah and look again
emotes it's how i live my life i sent it yeah because when you're a kid you be
doing like this
bro i'll be i'm a power ranger when i was a kid i was a ninja turtle i was
action man like you can be
anyone you want i was a boss boy for halloween i was like i was like yeah a bus
boy i was like hopeful
like yeah like we had a lot of like low hopes in our area i didn't really have
the costume but in my
mind i was i was legit a power ranger i was always a black ranger either him or
the red ranger that's
fair but yeah yeah watching you like it feels like you're watching like a um a
violent drawing or
something you know damn i like that that's interesting no good attitude um
violent drawing
you were at you know one the one i think my first fight you ever saw was me
versus gastelum
yep it was amazing i got to meet your brother you guys walked by in the hallway
yeah that's right
i got to meet david man and it was uh is that when my face was all lumpy like a
potato bro that was a
insane fight classic one of the best fights in the history of mankind it was
unbelievable it's so
interesting man because one thing it's interesting i think about you man and
this is a judgment but
yeah you are you are yourself but you also are able to watch yourself be
yourself and some people
it's a it's something that we all need more of self-awareness it's we have to
find ways to get
it because i think it used to be the crux of a human being like you had a
relationship with yourself that
was evolving constantly like um you know a lot of the greats like uh marcus aurelius
and stuff not
only would they learn something but then they would sit there with what they
learned and develop a
relationship with it yeah you know like what have i learned here what does this
mean to me what am
i getting from this what is this serving me do i need to let go of this right i'm
constantly
questioning even things that i've been told uh that's interesting bro no not
not i think just living
life and okay example when i was young sunday school i remember you know you
learned about
god made the world in seven days and this and that right yeah paul yeah and
then for me i remember
asking the question to my sunday school teacher was like well if god made the
world who made god
and then no answer just kind of like what and then i asked my parents asked the
housemaids my aunties
and then eventually one of my aunties was like if you keep asking that question
you'll go mad
and then i kind of thought like these people i don't think they understand i
don't think these
understand what's really going on so it made me question you know what they
tell me and over time
through life i've had moments when i've done stuff and i'm just like why did i
do that why did i feel that
way and then again i call it like you identified a monster that you can kill it
so once i identify
the feeling of you know maybe envy or anger or sadness i'm like why am i
feeling this way and i can
backwards engineer it or something so go go into that a little bit because i
think that's important
man because i think a lot of people deal with that so say if somebody's kind of
going through that
like what like what kind of process are you kind of talking about okay so
example if um say okay
it's it takes a skill to be happy for someone and i've noticed this because
when i was younger
and growing up in nz the culture kind of caught me a little bit where if
someone's doing well
you know it might it might look like ah because i noticed myself one of my
friends old friend i
noticed myself like distancing myself away from him because he was doing so
well yeah and then i
realized i was like wait hang on so i had to kind of because i was like this is
my boy i was like why am i
why am i feeling this way why am i feeling like i'm jealous of him when he's
not doing anything to
me and i've seen people do it to me as well the bigger i got it kept on getting
people would start
oh it must be nice type type you know yeah like oh and then you see them start
to treat me differently
so for me i start i noticed myself starting to treat him differently and
distance myself from him so
i pulled the brakes sat with it for a few weeks probably and just kind of
identify like why i should be
happy for him and it takes a skill to learn that and then becomes your second
nature over time once
you become like reps reps reps reps because to learn to be a hater was just
natural in the environment i
was in so i had to learn nah that's not the way i want to be so you can unlearn
behaviors as well even
as i get older things things even women i have to unlearn certain behaviors and
be like yeah you have to
know like this is maybe approaching this being more honest or be more communicative
and all that kind
of stuff you have to unlearn unlearn and constantly learn new ways of being