The FESTIVAL WILL BE HIGHLIGHTING THE BEST COMEDIANS FROM THE LAST TWO
FESTIVALS. A Comedian from the year before. A Comedian from this
year's FESTIVAL AND A COMEDIAN FROM ALL THE FESTIVALS. Comedians will
perform 15 min sets month. Highlighting their talents and skills. Come
support artist and find your new favorite Comedian.This month our
Comedians are: TO BE AnnouncedHost for the Show: Rob GordonFeaturing:
Fernando Madrigal and LaticeHeadliner: Shep KellyArticle from
https://www.vianolavie.org [https://www.vianolavie.org]Who: Shep
KellyWhat: Comedian
Interesting fact: Shep Kelly is one of the cofounders of Black Girl
Giggles, and she was the winner of the 2016 “Funniest Comic of the
Gulf South” comedy competition.
Q: What is the best greeting card you’ve ever gotten?
SK: I love Christmas music, and my friends know this, so even though
my birthday is in June, they all got me Christmas cards for my
birthday.
These were the cards that sang carols, and you can’t get those in
June. My friends had to have gotten the cards over Christmas, which
was six months prior. It was a really thought-out gift, and as long as
the cards were singing carols, I was good with it.
Q: When can you sense that someone is being genuine?
SK: Generally, a person is genuine when they offer to accommodate you
for something you’ve done for them. If a friend asks if they can
crash at your house and they offer to cook breakfast, you know that
they are being genuine.
When people offer rather than having to be asked or told what you
expect, that’s a good genuine quality. People don’t have to be
nice, so if they take the extra step, that counts a lot.
And I definitely put actions over words. People don’t do what they
don’t want to do, but they will say whatever you want to hear. If
someone tells me, “I love your children,” and then you ask them to
watch the kid, you start seeing what they really think about your kids
[laughing].
Q: What do you think is not funny?
SK: As comedians, everyone has a couple bad nights, but anyone who has
to degrade people in order to make jokes happen is not funny to me. If
you can’t get a laugh without putting someone else down, I don’t
think you’re funny. I think you’re hurt because you have to be
impacted by something for it to anger you. Folks go through a lot of
things, and it’s okay to be hurt, but it’s not okay to take it out
on others.
Q: What’s your favorite memory with Black Girl Giggles?
SK: Everyday is a party whenever I’m with them, but my absolute
favorite BGG memory is the first day of the festival last year. We had
a meeting where we were sitting around, drinking, and talking, and
someone said, ‘What if we had a comedy festival with just black
female comics?’ We knew Essence was coming up, and we thought it
would be good timing to have an all-black, all-female comedy festival.
The night before the festival, all we did was put an event up on
Eventbrite announcing the show.
Then, the bar we were at, which usually has around 13-14 people in it,
had 300 people in it. There were people from all over, so when I
walked into the bar I felt like I was royalty. Every show, every night
was packed to cap numbers. That night we realized how unstoppable we
actually are.
A lot of times you don’t get that kind of success until you’ve
done 15-20 years in comedy, and it was so amazing to see some of our
newest comedians react. Their eyes lit up. None of us needed any more
convincing that this is what we should be doing.
Q: If you had to describe your comedy as a plate of food, what would
be on the plate?
SK: A steak, a taco, and then…asparagus. None of that stuff matches,
but if you like one of those things, you really like it. People who
like tacos really like tacos. People who like steak really like steak.
And there are asparagus people out there.
For my comedy, there is something everyone can pick up and really
love.
You can see Shep Kelly perform at the Black Girl Giggles Comedy
Festival from July 5-8. For a full schedule of performances, check out
the Black Girl Giggles’s website.
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Who: Shep Kelly
What: Comedian
Interesting fact: Shep Kelly is one of the cofounders of Black Girl
Giggles, and she was the winner of the 2016 “Funniest Comic of the
Gulf South” comedy competition.
Q: What is the best greeting card you’ve ever gotten?
SK: I love Christmas music, and my friends know this, so even though
my birthday is in June, they all got me Christmas cards for my
birthday.
These were the cards that sang carols, and you can’t get those in
June. My friends had to have gotten the cards over Christmas, which
was six months prior. It was a really thought-out gift, and as long as
the cards were singing carols, I was good with it.
Q: When can you sense that someone is being genuine?
SK: Generally, a person is genuine when they offer to accommodate you
for something you’ve done for them. If a friend asks if they can
crash at your house and they offer to cook breakfast, you know that
they are being genuine.
When people offer rather than having to be asked or told what you
expect, that’s a good genuine quality. People don’t have to be
nice, so if they take the extra step, that counts a lot.
And I definitely put actions over words. People don’t do what they
don’t want to do, but they will say whatever you want to hear. If
someone tells me, “I love your children,” and then you ask them to
watch the kid, you start seeing what they really think about your kids
[laughing].
Q: What do you think is not funny?
SK: As comedians, everyone has a couple bad nights, but anyone who has
to degrade people in order to make jokes happen is not funny to me. If
you can’t get a laugh without putting someone else down, I don’t
think you’re funny. I think you’re hurt because you have to be
impacted by something for it to anger you. Folks go through a lot of
things, and it’s okay to be hurt, but it’s not okay to take it out
on others.
Q: What’s your favorite memory with Black Girl Giggles?
SK: Everyday is a party whenever I’m with them, but my absolute
favorite BGG memory is the first day of the festival last year. We had
a meeting where we were sitting around, drinking, and talking, and
someone said, ‘What if we had a comedy festival with just black
female comics?’ We knew Essence was coming up, and we thought it
would be good timing to have an all-black, all-female comedy festival.
The night before the festival, all we did was put an event up on
Eventbrite announcing the show.
Then, the bar we were at, which usually has around 13-14 people in it,
had 300 people in it. There were people from all over, so when I
walked into the bar I felt like I was royalty. Every show, every night
was packed to cap numbers. That night we realized how unstoppable we
actually are.
A lot of times you don’t get that kind of success until you’ve
done 15-20 years in comedy, and it was so amazing to see some of our
newest comedians react. Their eyes lit up. None of us needed any more
convincing that this is what we should be doing.
Q: If you had to describe your comedy as a plate of food, what would
be on the plate?
SK: A steak, a taco, and then…asparagus. None of that stuff matches,
but if you like one of those things, you really like it. People who
like tacos really like tacos. People who like steak really like steak.
And there are asparagus people out there.
For my comedy, there is something everyone can pick up and really
love.
You can see Shep Kelly perform at the Black Girl Giggles Comedy
Festival from July 5-8. For a full schedule of performances, check out
the Black Girl Giggles’s website.
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