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Alonzo
Bodden
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
WINNER OF NBC's LAST COMIC STANDING!
Black All
Over The World / Black or White? / Sports
Talk / Stupid & Stupider / Trick Question /
The Right Woman / Just A Friend / Instant
Replay / They’re Complicated / I’m A
Boyfriend? / Clothes Shopping |
There is nothing,
absolutely nothing that would ever make Alonzo
Bodden give up comedy. “That’s the drug”, he says
“when they laugh it’s like I’m a jazz musician and
they hear it, and they get it. It’s the power to
take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it
when they laugh, especially when they relate through
laughter. It’s a beautiful thing. It also means I’m
going to get paid, which is nice.”
Bodden didn’t always make his living as a standup
comic. A graduate of Aviation High School, for 9
years he earned a paycheck as a jet mechanic for
Lockheed and then McDonnell Douglas. While comics
around the country were making audiences laugh at
airline jokes, Bodden was working on the top secret
Stealth Bomber. It was during a stint as trainer
that Alonzo discovered his ability to entertain a
group of people. “I was teaching airplane mechanics
when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh,”
Bodden explains, “I was laid off one more time and I
never looked back, although it was nice to have a
steady paycheck and benefits.” He enrolled in a
comedy class and the rest as they say, is comedy
history.
Sharing his observation, frustrations and outright
pain on everything from shopping to sports, from
politics to parents and every man's lament, being
seen by women as "just a friend."
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