Comedian Eric D'Alessandro joins me at Carolines on Broadway for a funny and serious talk. We get into:

• Mispronouncing his name
• Driving on the Autobahn
• Anxiety and his diagnosis
• Therapy
• Mental illness in his family
• A hit and run accident
• How he made it in stand-up comedy
• Improv classes where he was totally out of place
• Odd jobs, like at Newark Airport
• Pounding the pavement
• Emailing Taylor Swift's booking agent
• Doing open mics
• Comedy club gatekeepers
• Social media comedians
• Young comedians vs. old comedians
• Trying to get to the next level vs. being a dinosaur
• His creative process
• How he edits his videos
• How he tests his comedy material
• Dressing like a woman and how he feels about it
• Why people think he's gay
• Who he really is beneath the façade

Links:

Carolines on Broadway https://www.carolines.com/

Eric's website https://www.ericdalessandro.com/

Eric's IG https://www.instagram.com/ericdalessandro/

Eric and me on YouTube

• Old school stand-up comedy is dead: https://youtu.be/M9oGEBKF1vU
• Struggles growing up: https://youtu.be/VoqEKYMWdhM
• Secret to Instagram + YouTube success: https://youtu.be/oYras84oSkE

Five Miles from the Spotlight https://youtu.be/w3cQbZfofGU

Eric's hilarious Walmart video https://youtu.be/ciYFgVpya5k

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Celebrity interview by Kara Mayer Robinson

Music credit:

Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod incompetech - Creative Commons