Comedy Centered

Hey, I think we're good. It's 6 o'clock. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Comedy Centered. I, I cleaned my office and before I went on the air I bumped my light to this kind of purplish color and I don't know how to fix it. So I look, I look red. It's the light. I didn't accidentally get sunburnt or anything. Hey, welcome in. Hi. Speak Wonder. Hello. Hello, happy day. Hopefully you got out and enjoyed your weekend. I did. I actually had a blast last night, actually yesterday afternoon. Well, and slightly into the evening.

I'm a stand up comedian again. My name is Tiffany Norton. We get together every week, 6 o'clock on Sundays on the Cadre app. Obviously, if you're watching it here, you know that. And so I'm a standup comedian and there is a comedy festival that's been going on in the Twin cities. It's called 10,000 laughs. And this festival was started several years ago, I think almost 10 years ago now, quite a while. And it brings together, it's produced locally and it really uses a bunch of the stages all in and around the Twin Cities and it goes on for a weekend.

And so that was all going on this weekend and. But I went to something I've never gone to before and this is not the first year they've produced this show, but it was the first time I attended it. And it's called Recovery Riot. And what was so great about this event was that it was for people in recovery, it was for sober people. There was a comedy show with no booze. It was awesome. Like if someone, you know, when people are watching this on replay, when people are engaging in the live and stuff, right.

Certain people are in different relationship paths with alcohol. That comedy centered isn't strictly about necessarily like, you know, just the alcohol stuff. Right. It's just improving, just about improving, right. Whatever area of work you're trying to area of your life you're trying to figure out, right. But man, it is. I've been a standup comic for 17 years and the last two years of me really struggling with getting my head around cutting alcohol out of my life. And I've had relapses, don't get that wrong.

And what where really is hard for me is navigating these spaces where there's a lot of anxiety. There's a lot of anxiety before comment, you know, comedy also. Oh, thank you for all the hearts. Oh my God, I'm feeling so warm. But there's a lot of anxiety, you know, in the audience as well. And I am empathic, and I pick up on all of that a lot, a lot, a lot. And, wow, it was really refreshing.