AMA with Joseph Stapes Stapleton

[Lars]

How did you become a commentator? Have you ever done any stand up comedy?

[Stapes]

How did you become a commentator? Have you ever done any stand up comedy?

I have told this one a few times, so this time, enjoy this budget info graphic:

Production Assistant -> Blogger - > Video producer -> Podcast Host -> Multiple Podcast and Web Show Host - > TV Show Host

I got really lucky in that the the right people were fans of mine. Barry Greenstein, Joe Sebok, Daniel Negreanu.

I started doing stand-up about a year and a half ago. I've done it a shamefully few number of times, and only once in the last 8 months. I'm not very good at it, obviously. I don't really like it, or want to be a stand-up, but at the moment I don't write and I don't do stand-up, which is kind of like an athlete who wants to be in the Olympics but does run or work out.

There is footage of that one performance I did in the last eight months here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-ekaSWLgg