Today we’d like to introduce you to Tay Logan.
Hi Tay, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My journey to becoming a stand-up comedian started a couple of years ago. I started writing material for about a year before getting on stage. It took me so long to perform because I was nervous and doubted myself. I went to my first open mic a few months ago.
Now, I perform about 4 days a week and am loving it. Stand-up comedy is extremely difficult. Even if your favorite comedian makes it look easy, I promise it isn’t. There’s a huge amount of preparation that goes into it all.
You have to write original/funny material, put that into a 5-45 minute set, perform it several times to several different audiences, fine-tune, rewrite, and perfect your material, fight your way towards a comedy gig, practice your set over and over until the words you are saying are annoyingly memorized, perform it for gigs, perhaps make a special with it, then repeat. It’s exhausting but completely worth it.
The feeling you get when you are on stage is indescribable. One laugh makes you feel like all of your hard work and repetition was worth it. As a comedian, you just want to make people laugh. It’s that simple. We want to use our material/stories/creativity in something that people enjoy. We want to elicit happiness, even if we aren’t happy ourselves. We turn our trauma and pain into art. It’s quite beautiful.
I have a lot of future goals within stand-up comedy that I hope to accomplish. I’m not going to give up and will continue to try and be a better and better comedian each day. I hope to be big someday, but for now, I’m 5”3.
Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I’d go as far as to say that it has been quite a bumpy road. A lot of doubt. A lot of rejection.
We love surprises, fun facts, and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
I have severe depression and anxiety. I try not to show it and my goal when I speak to people is to make them happy.
I struggle with things just like everyone else and sometimes when I tell someone about my mental health, they are shocked and have no idea. Which is crazy since I thought that I gave off sad boy vibes.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/logancomedian
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/logancomedian
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@logancomedian
