This week on Starting Out it’s someone I consider my comedy little brother, as he started in Hamilton about a year after me. I’ve loved watching him grow and become even more creative in standup and now film, it’s AJ Bate on Starting Out. AJ talks about growing up in Libya and how speaking English so well prompted him to take a job at a radio station. From there he got an engineering degree, eventually came to Canada, begrudgingly to Hamilton, and how a chance viewing of a woman with a stupid face loving her life made him question everything about his own, and led to comedy. He’s now the writer and director of four short films - My Favorite Thing That I Forgot, Balloon, No Place for You Here, and Sincerely, Yours. Follow him at @ajbate_ and check out his movies. Music by Devin Bateson.

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