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with Mike Malec and MC Ben Konstantin
"Last Comic Standing" Runner-Up
Says Alonzo:
I was asked to do The Apollo Comedy Hour . That was frightening. At this point, I had maybe two years of experience. The whole thing about the Apollo is: don't get booed off! That's your only concern. It was my first time working in New York, which is where I grew up. I got there and I went to the Boston Comedy Club because some LA comics had told me to check it out; it's in the Village. The comics there were like, "Oh, you're doing the Apollo? We can get you up in this room, that room, the other room, just to run your set." I went to this club called Manhattan Proper. It was in Queens, about two miles from where I grew up. I didn't tell anybody I was going to be there. I just went. That crowd-second or third joke-started booing me and ran me right out of the room. That was my first time getting booed like that. I had bombed before. I would have jokes not work. But that was the first time it was that kind of reaction. I got to the Apollo and it's much smaller than it looks on TV. They had us downstairs in a bullpen. They would have a music act and then a comic, but they wouldn't tell you who was next. I either followed or went right before Biggie Smalls. I went out there and my first joke was: "I grew up in New York. I moved to LA. Damn, if I was a rapper, I'd have to shoot myself." They loved it! My set just went. People ask me if I get nervous and I generally don't get nervous-even back then I didn't get too nervous-but whenever I'm doing something new, it's always about getting the first laugh. That's when I can relax.
