Filming Day 1

After coming up with the idea, our friend Shanna told us she knew a stand-up comedian that would be willing to talk to us. He was teaching a comedy class at Bluedog Acting School for kids last night so Laura and I took this opportunity to go talk to him and get some footage.

The school was very cool and relaxed. Also, our subject, Chris Perez, was very approachable and one of the funniest people I had ever talked to. He was willing to let us interview him for 15 minutes!  Within his interview he was even nice enough to give our friend Robert, the up and coming comedian, a little advice and addressed him personally.

In our documentary, we will be showing the art of stand-up comedy through two different viewpoints, one is an up and coming comedian and the other is an older comedian. It is clear that this means a lot to our first interviewee because he said in the interview that he uses stand-up comedy as a way to release all the struggles of his day. He also mentioned that stand-up comedy is a lot of hard work and that many people underestimate this. "It is definitely an art form," says Chris Perez.