SPOKANE, Wash. — Get ready to laugh! Comedian and actor Drew Lynch is coming back to the Spokane Comedy Club next weekend.
Lynch first captured the hearts of America during Season 10 of America’s Got Talent. Since then, he has gained millions of followers on social media.
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4 News Now’s Taylar Ansures sat down with Lynch to speak about the upcoming show and the fun that fans can expect to have.
Below is an edited transcript of the conversation:
Q: We are talking about your upcoming shows in the Spokane area next weekend. Would you mind just talking a little about who you are, what you do and how you got started in the comedy space?
Lynch: I’m very excited to come back to Spokane. The big red wagon always brings out kids and a special kid quality in me.
I started comedy just shortly after I was experiencing a softball injury. When I was in my early youth, I had a TBI, which is cool medical jargon for traumatic brain injury. I didn’t want it to sound so traumatic right when I said it. So I shortened it to TBI. I couldn’t get hired anywhere around the greater Los Angeles city area in the industry because I developed a pretty pronounced stutter. It was a speech impediment that I very much didn’t grow up with.
It just came out of this freak accident. I never wanted to do stand-up comedy or be involved in it or anything. And then some comics are like, ‘You should go on stage and talk about it, you know, talk on the go. Feel your pain, brother.’
So I went on stage and, I started just kind of making jokes, just making self-deprecating jokes about my, my, my stutter and, you know, sometime after that, I did America’s Got Talent, and then some time after that I met my friend Taylar for the Zoom interview.
Q: I know you’ve done shows in Spokane before. What’s going to be different about this show? Can you give a little preview of what people can expect?
Lynch: Oh, man. Well, I’ll probably be standing. This is one of the big components of stand up. You have to be standing. And then there’ll be a microphone. There will be caviar and bottle service and strobe lights and, and there’s a bowling alley and during my show and it is a petting zoo. And I’m just up there just, just shredding jokes one after the other and your stomach is just quenched.
They told me that I don’t have the budget to do all that, but if I did, that would be what it would be. That would be what it would look like.
The thing is people who know me and have seen me at other shows know that every single show that I do is different from the last. I do a lot of silly stuff in the crowd.
I just released a recent special called ‘The Stuttering Comedian.’ It’s out on YouTube, and this new hour is really just me going into the space of being like, “Let’s just be silly. Let’s be unattached to the identity that always has been me with a with a stutter.” If I get going long enough or wild enough, it sometimes it comes back, sometimes it doesn’t. Happy mistakes happen. Dude, it’s so fluid. And we all hold hands and pray at the end. It’s a beautiful experience.
Q: It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun. You mentioned your latest special ‘The Stuttering Comedian.’ What has been one of the most memorable moments you experienced through the filming and production of that special?
Lynch: I thought the whole process was really cool. The special has very cool production design. We kind of wanted to embrace this, like sideshow freak, sort of old timey carnival feel, right? Just to embrace the narrative that people just put on me, you know? They always wrote me off as just like, “Oh, I don’t know his name, but he’s that he’s that stuttering comedian or he’s the comedian with the stutter.” That way you kind of feel a little bit like a freak.
It was really about how I can answer every question that I’ve had over the years, about my, my rehabilitation process, how I felt about it, some of the questions I’ve gotten, the emotional sort of arc to feeling like the relationship to trying to control it was what was going to ultimately set me free when really it was just kind of letting go of that perception. My buddy Isaac Abrams is the one who directed it. It was filmed in Chicago. The way that it just came together, it just looks so beautiful. So I’m very proud of it.
Q: I’m excited to check it out for myself. Outside of the shows on September 11 through 13, is there anything you’re looking forward to seeing when you’re here?
Lynch: I hope that the rapids are still going I’d really like to visit those again. Just like a fun look at water that’s moving under my feet.
But there’s a tea shop. I hope it’s still there. There’s a tea shop that’s also in the area, and, I go there and you go downstairs and it’s got like, this cool, swanky, like jazz. And then like some girl comes up and she’s like, “Hey, I’m Lotus.” And like, she’s putting up her top knot, you know, and you’re like, what’s up?
And she’s like yeah, I don’t work here because employment is a construct and she’s like, let me just read your chakras and then I’ll get you a tea based on that. Two palm readings later and I got my tea in front of me and I’m freaking typing up a doozy, talking about Spokane and all the silly people in Spokane and how I’m going to throw it back in their face.
They’ll be all silly. And then maybe we’ll crowdfund for some of the other ideas that I was talking about with the bowling and a bunch of petting zoos during my show. Those would be some ideas that I try to implement as well.
Q: Are there any final comments or statements that you want to make to people that are considering going to the show or that are big fans of yours in the area?
Lynch: I don’t, I don’t like to sell myself because it feels dirty and I already showered. So here’s what I’ll say is I always, invite, things to be fluid and fun and, I’m always very honest with everything that’s going on in my life. And I like to have everybody feel included and everybody feel like they can just leave their problems at the door or be there. Well, unless there aren’t doors, because that’s also a construct, just like Lotus’ version of employment. So we’ll have to see.
Q: Before we wrap up, where can people find you on social media?
Lynch: You can find me @TheDrewLynch on all socials and my website is DrewLynch.com where you can buy tickets to the Spokane Comedy Club.
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You can find the list of showtimes below for the upcoming shows in Spokane:
Thursday, September 11 at 7 p.m.Friday, September 12 at 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.Saturday, September 13 at 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.
Shows starting at 9:30 p.m. or later are 21 and over only. Shows starting earlier are 18 and older with a valid ID.
Tickets are nonrefundable and seats are only guaranteed until showtime. Ticket prices are more expensive at the door if any seats remain.
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