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After Waking up With a Cheap Tattoo, I Tried Stand-Up Comedy in Bushwick to Redeem My Drunken Self

One man's tale of an epic open-mic night.

After Waking up With a Cheap Tattoo, I Tried Stand-Up Comedy in Bushwick to Redeem My Drunken Self

After Waking up With a Cheap Tattoo, I Tried Stand-Up Comedy in Bushwick to Redeem My Drunken Self

One man's tale of an epic open-mic night.

After Waking up With a Cheap Tattoo, I Tried Stand-Up Comedy in Bushwick to Redeem My Drunken Self
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Cody Lewis

@clewis4168

A few months back I woke up with a dire hangover, a broken Playstation (some drunk chick from The Rookery had fallen on), and a 25-dollar tattoo on my leg that I only vaguely remember getting in a shoe store. With all this came the realization that I had been living in New York City for three years and I hadn’t done anything except drink. Nothing.

So to make short a long, beautiful story about self-improvement, I decided to make a change. I thought stand-up comedy was a good place to start. Funny was my most redeemable quality.

Doing standup was a life long dream of mine, but I had always been too afraid to do it. But I knew I had to do something in this city except booze.

At the risk of talking myself out it, as I had done so many times before, I didn’t give myself time to write a good set or study the craft…

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