way out of it or making the teacher laugh and much like ferris bueller or bugs bunny or you know axel foley again, and i just, uh at that point, it was counting. okay i want to do this. but then i had this really amazing opportunity. i did this comedy festival in ireland, and it was with all the second city alumni. but then they had someone drop out to do these small improv shows in the back of these pubs, and they asked me if i wanted to do it and george had seen and bernadette had seen me perform. and people are kind of like and george would be like, no, i think he could do it. and then then they started playing short form improv games, which i had all these years of experience. you know, they didn't say go west. they would just go to chicago was never go to la go to new york, like, go get like, get the biz was never that and george never push that all he did was really unknowingly to me. uh, at that point was when i dropped out of college, i was living in my parents' basement, and i was like, right in the silly newsletter that i'd send to friends that actual colleges when my mom and dad

and you know michael keaton, bugs bunny and axel foley, murphy and all these guys remember vividly going to see beverly hills cop as a nine year old boy with my father because my father loved when a good guy, especially smartass. someone's great at their jobs. people that spoke truth to power and did it with like you know, it made people laugh. so when did you decide? i'm going to do this when i moved to chicago, like, you know, i played blast ball all throughout, you know, up until the community college and then i quit. i got red shirt at a community college, which is tough to do. it wasn't thrilling me the way it used to, but i was doing this thing called comedy sports. so my transition from sports to comedy was this improv show in kansas city called comedy sports, which is basically like whose line is it anyway? you know, uh and we place short form games and whatnot, and i had a knack for it and again, not wanting to be a child actor. i was always around funny friends. i always gravitate towards people that made me laugh. i love making other people laugh. i got out of a lot of, you kn