On this week’s episode of the podcast “Jalen Rose: Renaissance Man,” the comedian Earthquake outlines his unusual path to stand-up superstardom.
Before that, he was in the Air Force. He enlisted because, well: “I wanted to get out my mother’s house. And they was the first one that would get me out. She was hollering at me for free, so might as well go in, get hollered at and get a check.” It was the best move because it gave him the discipline to be a comedian — “be there on time, keep your word … There’s no excuses.”The service “taught me that, you know, we are all the same. We just do things different,” he said.
Earthquake had troubles early in his career getting booked, but then his mother gave him good advice.He was enlisted for nine years, working with nuclear weapons for a living. Then Desert Storm happened. “I was like, ‘Listen. I don’t mind practicing for war, but y’all fighting for real. It’s time for me to go on cap on out. I could have stayed home and got shot at.'” When he left the military, he started comedy almost by accident. He took a woman out on a date to a comedy club and she was laughing like a hyena at a dude he didn’t think was funny. So she challenged Earthquake to give it a try. And the rest is history.
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