Comedy Trek
The unvarnished ramblings of a nerd with ADHD turned comedian.
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Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself (opens the original)
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My name is Smith, Justin Avery Smith. I use my first, middle and last name so that my name can go down in history alongside other show biz greats like Oh, Mary star John Wilkes Booth. I like to think I’m well on my way because my wide blue eyes and brown hair help to serve you Elijah Wood realness.Thank you to my FIFTEEN new subscribers (I had to keep updating this intro as the number of new subscribers kept growing during the writing process). This one is for you, and all the other people who w
Nobody Does It Better, Makes Me feel Sad For the Rest (opens the original)
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This afternoon I made this post to my socials about Carly Simon, whom I believe to be a more ethical alternative to Taylor Swift if you’ve found yourself falling out of love with T-Swizzle and her fandom due to reasons that may or may not involve various forms of cake eating. One song of hers I neglected to mention in my two-and-a-half minute mini video essay is a song from later in her career called “So Many People to Love” off of her album ‘This Kind of Love’<div cla
My Much Requested Kinky Boots Essay (opens the original)
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This past week I’ve been on stage talking about how Clarence Thomas wrote a 91 page dissent against Birthright Citizenship and I almost had a nervous breakdown in college when I had to write twenty pages on the history of Kinky Boots and people voiced their interest in reading that. I am nothing if not a theater kid turned stand up comic of the people.Save for a few edits to fit the newsletter format, while ignoring Substack’s insistence that I misspelled “theatre”, “Fierstein”, and “Lauper”, th
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