I Hate Doing Stand-Up with Clinical Anxiety | Joseph Anthony Stand-Up Comedy

The world's largest landfill is in Staten Island, New York, and as you can imagine, we're a proud people.

>> [laughter] >> Home of the dump. When was the last time you were standing in front of a room full of strangers who were sitting there staring at you >> [laughter] >> expecting something from you personally battle clinical anxiety >> [laughter] >> and you left your meds back in THE HOTEL ROOM.

NOW, IF YOU WERE ME, DO YOU think inside you'd be feeling "Wow, is it great to be here tonight?" No.

Not at all. This is a horrible situation. >> [laughter] >> I'm a wreck right now. Especially no alcohol, I'M A WRECK.

I'M ON THE STREET BEGGING PEOPLE FOR A cap of beer, anything. I'm not doing that, but the point is that I said, "I know this is a tough situation, and I'll begin my show by using the words my father gave me if I should ever be in a tough spot like this one here tonight."

So, I'd like to begin by saying "What are you looking at, HUH? YOU, YOU GOT A PROBLEM, HUH? >> [laughter] >> SWEAR TO GOD."

IT'S HONESTY. IT'S A DOSE OF THE truth that cues you right into who I am, where I'm from. No shock to anyone, no secret.

If you guessed the deep south, you're 100% correct. I I'm from the southeast of the United States, small town. You probably never heard of it. It's called It's deep, deep in southern Brooklyn, New York. I don't know if you've ever heard of that part of the South, but that's where I'm from. Uh Uh

I get a lot of, you know, people really don't believe me, but it I I come from a long line of farmers, you know, just ages and generations of farmers. We used to We used to milk things. Um >> [laughter] >> We would uh Oh, we would grow stuff, you know, it's uh It's farm talk. I don't expect you to understand it, but

>> [laughter] >> Um there is one time at the of the year uh where we all sort of become or pretend to be farmers, and that is that is around Halloween time when we go punkin picking.

Now, if you heard the word punkin, you heard correctly. >> [laughter] >> I cannot say the word pumpkin. I don't know if it's because I'm firstborn American, but it doesn't I can't say punkin. So, if you're like really a stickler about syntax, you might want to cover your ears cuz for this next bit,

you're going to hear the word punkin several times. >> [laughter] >> And this all comes down to the fact that anyone here who's ever gone pumpkin picking [laughter] has most likely never ever picked a pumpkin.