Mr. M's Comedy
Comedy is my passion! Making others momentarily forget the cares of life has become a great joy in my life. In high school, I wrote and told jokes to family and friends from my inspiration of listening to comedy records. Yes, records – vinyl. Upon my graduation from High School in 1987, I became more inquisitive about my ability to develop my comedic skills into those of a professional standup comedian. The thing that remained ever present on my mind, and I pondered if it were possible to be clean and funny at the same time because many comedians use vulgar language, race and sexual content to get a hearty laugh. However, after listening to the comedy acts of Sinbad and other clean comedians, I realized that it was possible, and that became my challenge. Later while attending El Centro Community College in Dallas, Texas from 1988 to 1990, I enrolled in a speech class to gain additional help with my comedy skills. My instructor was willing to help me as long as I kept the content clean. She gave me tips on presentation and performing, and she also told me that I could do my comic routines in her class as long as I aligned my act to the speech curriculum of the class assignments. This was a difficult challenge, but it forced me to put my creative ability to the test, as well as develop new material. This challenge was a success! I made others laugh in all the speeches, and the content was clean. Shortly before the end of the semester, I was well recognized by my teacher and classmates as a very funny student that had great potential for standup comedy.
That speech class was my encouragement to perform open-mic comedy shows at local clubs such as Scooters and Backdoor Comedy. I was successful performing and well on my way to making others laugh and smile. I continued to perform frequently in those clubs even after I transferred to East Texas State University in 1990. When I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information System in 1994, I began working full-time in the computer field, but I had not lost my passion for comedy; from 1994 to 1999, I continued to develop my comedic skills by writing new material. However, when I wasn’t able to perform at open-mic comedy shows because of my busy work schedule, I took the opportunity to perform wherever I could get an audience.
As the computer job market began to slow down after September 11, 2011, I took a position as a substitute teacher for the school districts in the Dallas and Tarrant counties. In addition, I returned to performing at open-mic comedy shows once again. Discovering that I could even make elementary kids laugh, I developed and performed comedy routines for children shows, and I even began performing comedy for the churches. Currently, I offer my performing services to College, Military, High School, and Church audiences. Laugher is medicine for the troubled soul.
