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a VI is it right now with a very funny stand up comic, Tom
Tokar, And he is all over the country doing comedy and we are so
blessed to have him in Soup Falls on Saturday, July twenty seventh. It's
before you know it, he'll be here. Tom, thanks for joining us
today. I'm excited to have you in Sioux Falls. Thanks for having me.
Ton excited to get up to suit Falls for the first time. Well,
we're excited to have you here. And I get to open the show
for you, so we get to work together in a couple of weeks.
That's very exciting. John. What kind of material you doing up there?
You know, it's all pretty much just dumb stories of things that I've done
because I keep doing stupid things. That's the sort of thing. I don't
know if you got my I ruled for my openers. But no stupid stories
about things you've done. That's all about I have nothing but fart jokes then,
so I guess we're in for a treat. That's also no part joke.
No, don't know your family? Oh no, no dirty, no
work, no clean stuff. I have in so much trouble now I am
so excited. First of all, how long have you been doing stand up
comedy? Tom? I started about two ten, so about fourteen years now.
And what was it? What was it? The kind of drea to
that is? What was it that made you decide I am going to get
on stage and bear my soul to these people? Well, you know,
I was. I was obsessed with watching comedy as a kid. My mom
made the mistake of letting me have a TV in my bedroom, and so
I would watch Comedy Central all the time, and I was like, man,
I want to I want to do this. This seems so fun.
I also assumed that everybody who was on Comedy Central was like a multi millionaire,
And now that I have done that, assure you that is not true.
Yeah, but yeah, it's a club opened up in my hometown.
When while I was in college and I was like, oh, man.
I was working at a hospital at the time, and I was like,
man, I want to go over there and try out the open mic.
And soon enough I was no longer going to med school and I was just
doing comedy full time, and one thing led to another. It is kind
of one of those things where I was like, I'm going to try this
out. It seems like it would be cool if I if I could make
it work, and then I just became obsessed with it. And as you
look at the opportunities you've had come along, is there something along the way
that you look back and go I still think this was like my favorite thing
I've ever had a chance to do. Oh yeah, getting booked at Too
Fall one, Well, let's take that one off the list. What else
on the list? There? No, there were a couple. But I
felt really lucky that I grew up watching Conan O'Brien, and I got really
lucky that I was able to perform in that show before ended. And so
I look back at that as something that's really cool, because I'm like,
that doesn't even exist anymore, and I got to do it while it was
still around. But the big things for me were I grew up watching those
Comedy Central half hour special so when I got to do one of those myself,
I was really that felt like full circle, like oh, I'm doing
what made me do this, what made me get into this. It's crazy
and to think like, oh, maybe I can be that for some kid
watching this right now, and that probably has happened. I bet there's some
kids that have been watching that and they see you and they go, man,
I want to do what he's doing. What he does. I bet
that guy's super wealthy because he's on Comedy Central. Yeah. One of the
things that I've always noticed is like when I when the Forbes list of the
most wealthy people on the planet come out, I always look to see how
many of these people are comics, and well, yeah, I don't think
any of them. Maybe you want yeah, and you've like never even heard
of where You're like, how is that possible? Yeah? I mean that
I had never heard of. Like it's usually a guy who has puppets,
but not just and you're like, I was, what is it? I
got the wrong? Maybe I'll bring a puppet to to ball'd be fun.
I've never done you work with that, But I'll wear a mat. I'll
wear one of those face mats that that you can't tell if I'm talking or
yeah. Twenty twenty would have been the best year to break into ventriloquism.
Really, it wouldn't matter if your lips are moving or not. It would
be funny because there was a time where we had to wear mats on stage.
It was really weird and I was thinking, like, man, going
to see a puppet guy right now? You just after keeping like truck me.
I'm doing it. My lips are not moving, I promise. The
other thing you could do is you could bring a ventriloquis dummy on stage and
then just never have the dummy say anything. Just do your entire set completely
straight without even pointing, like pointing out the fact that you have a dummy
on your lap, right, and just have him make faces like you just
judge it like I really only learned that part of it. Or you can
have him laughing. You know, he's laughing at all your jokes. No,
I'm kind of how can you do that? Well, I'm excited.
I'm excited. I'm excited to work with you. I think it's gonna be
a whole lot of fun. I'm gonna throw a link to make it easy
for folks to find tickets. And you've got a bunch of stuff between now
and then, but I am excited to have you in sou Falls. Thank
you also for taking the time to chat. Hey, of course, thanks
for having me. John excited to work together man absolutely again, Tom Tacar,
He'll be in Sue Falls at the Icon Lounge. It is coming up
on Saturday, the twenty seventh of July. So if you don't have tickets
that you can get them now. All of the details at Sue Falls Comedy
on Facebook, so Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls Comedy. But I also
have a link at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash
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