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Brendan GayCOMEDYBorn and raised the Midwt, Brendan is a natnal tourg edian who s nfintly when nervo. In the urse of one’s life, ’s rare you get lucky enough to meet people like Brendan Gay: people who are so sgularly foced on their missn that nothg, and we mean nothg, n distract them om their missn. Except this se, Gay is not seekg a fish le, he is simply foced on his reer as a standup ic.
Growg up En Prairie Mnota, Gay thought he knew what he wanted: to be wealthy. Dpe the potential upsis ( terms of the chase of the Amerin dollar) Gay quickly grew weary of the role, and learned a first valuable lson: “image you get somethg that you want so bad, and you’re unhappy”.
Brendan Gay. For Gay, was a treasure trove of standup edy opportuni and, spe the big cy vibe, iendly and welg fellow standup ics.
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In a te ttament to the mantra that ignorance is bliss, at the 15 month mark of his standup reer, Gay set out on somethg not often attempted so early on: a “52 ci 52 weeks” tour. Riliency to move on spe setbacks up the nversatn several tim and Gay offers “When I talk about that riliency the past? Livg New York Cy cemented several thgs for Gay, cludg that “ orr to get better, orr to get stronger, you’ve got to take some pa.
” But through that ial pa, Gay accumulated several imprsive crentials, cludg Falist on TTV’s Comedy Breakout Iniative, Falist Make Me Lgh USA Competn, and Semi-falist NBC’s Standup Diversy Showse 2017. Gay ponred a change of lole, and led out a number of other ci until the proverbial dart land on the proverbial ner bullseye (y, I googled , I thought was jt the “middle circle thgy”) that was At, Texas.
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We were fortunate to land Gay’s h face and obv talent to our cy’s ranks. Gay & I spent a few moments talkg about a recent lol news story about the “rise of edy” At as the cy emerged om Covid lockdown.
While I was foced on the poor rearch reprented by the news story, Gay wanted to foc on the posiv of the At edy scene. Of those that jumped on the opportuny to perform on stage or create stage time startg wh the fall of 2020, Gay said “when everythg else is slow, and someone else is phg forward, they’re gonna move a lot faster”. Gay’s hope for the scene is that “hopefully we n create a culture this scene, you know, the people that are , where ’s like, let’s all w.