Name: How I Knew I Was A Comedian
Uploaded: 2020-12-30T23:55:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How I Knew I Was A Comedian' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How I Knew I Was A Comedian' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-30. Transcript available.

I was young, man. I was young. I didn't want to be on MTV. Like, you know, I
mean, I guess I did,
but I was just 19. It's not like I was making any life choices. Right, right.
And then the next thing
you know, I was like, oh, if you don't think that I have a talent, well, I'm
going to do the hardest
job in town and I'm going to do it the best. And that started to like just get
into my head. Like,
you don't think I have talent? Well, let's see if I do, you know? Right, yeah.
So then I just got
into stand-up and I always like making people laugh. Like I used to do a
similar thing when I was a
child at the lunch table. We'd get some kids who were mentals or a couple of
them might've been
mentals and a couple of kids that were well, you know, and we'd get there and
sit them to make them
drink milk and then tell jokes and do stuff until one of them just blew milk
out of their face,
you know? And if you get some straight up, just a couple of mentals, boy, some
straight up
sawed off humans, you get them to, dude, you get them to straight up blow leche
out their dome, dude.
That's America right there. You know what I'm saying? And that's when I knew I
was like, oh,
I got some kind of a gift here. You know, I almost blew the throat out of this
one boy.
Almost blew the throat out of this one boy named Tot, T-O-T with his name. Kind
of a bad name
too to be mentally challenged, but also easy for him to spell. And I'm not
joking. That's
what his father said. And easy for him to spell backward and forward. Same name,
Tot.
So that's true, man.
Was this guy's real? His name was Tot?
Yeah, dude. Why are you so laughing at him?
It's just a funny sounding name. That's all. I'm sorry.
Yeah, you're right. It was pretty funny, I guess. Tot.
Yeah, well, let's talk about Tot.
Sometimes he would just say T-O-T was his name, but I knew it was Tot.
Yeah.
He would try to spell it out, you know, like he was tricking me.
Yeah. So did you do like the open mic circuit in L.A.?
Yeah, started doing open mics here.
Like at Marty's or where? Like at the Comic Meltdown and stuff?
No, they had a place over on the west side of town I lived. I was sleeping
under, a buddy
of mine had a bed and I was sleeping under his bed for $150 a month.
Oh, wow.
And sometimes even in his bed sometimes when he would be out of town or when he
would leave
for work, I'd climb up into his bed, dude. And I've never been heavily
homosexual,
but I will say this, that there's nothing really gayer than getting into a man's
warmth
after he's already left the room, you know, and climbing up into his bed. A man
you don't
even really know that much, but still catching that hit off of his temperature,
you know?
That's funny.
It's true, man.
Yeah.
You go over to somebody's house, dude, and you don't know that much, and when
they leave
the room and get out of their bed, you get into their bed.
You never told them that, though.
That shit will make a man out of you fast, dude. Or it won't.
But you find out who's who pretty quick when you're doing stuff like that, you
know?
Yeah, yeah.
You know, Bobby just gets set in some spots of comfortability.
Well, with his jokes and...
I think with everything.
You know, he likes to pee on the balcony, you know? And he likes to just be
comfortable.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's okay. I've been there, dude. I went to bed while I was probably 31.
For real?
And outside areas.
But he, you know, I think he likes to be comfortable.
And sometimes you get comfortable in your set.