Gabriel Iglesias Times Union Center for the Performing Arts March 3
Comedian Lance Patrick spent four years of his childhood in Northeast Florida and has fond memories of his fourth dimension here.
He remembers playing Footling League baseball at the Orange Park Able-bodied Association. Getting dropped off at the Orange Park Mall by his mom. Going to his commencement concert: Tesla and Poison. He was 12 for that.
Patrick recalls hanging out at The Jacksonville Landing in his early teens and thinking it was a actually cool place.
He loved going to the Beaches.
And he'll never forget his beginning girlfriend in 6th grade at Grove Park Elementary in Orangish Park.
The problem, he institute out when he eventually reconnected with her through Facebook, was that she didn't really call up him.
"She said, 'I don't think I was ever your girlfriend,' " Patrick said. "I was devastated. I said, 'Really? We were in the same homeroom together all through junior high school. Our last names started with the same letter.' "
So whether any locals remember Patrick when he opens for Gabriel Iglesias on Sunday at the Times-Union Eye for the Performing Arts is anybody's guess, he joked last week during a phone interview from the tour motorcoach in Atlanta.
"Possibly it's because I go by my beginning and middle name," he said. "My last proper noun is Midkiff, but I don't use information technology because it never gets spelled right."
Patrick, 36, who has only been doing stand up-up for three years, said he is genuinely excited about playing Jacksonville, the last of four Florida stops he'll be making with Iglesias, who is known equally the "fluffy comic in the Hawaiian T-shirt" and for the phrase, "I'm not fat … I'one thousand fluffy."
"There are peachy memories in Florida," said Patrick, who lived in Lakeland before and after living hither, "and Jacksonville is where I got my bearings in life."
The route to comedy has certainly been a circuitous one for him. He was working in Nashville, Tenn., in a music direction part when a band they represented got an offering to appear in the 2005 flick "Yours, Mine and Ours."
After spending time on a film ready, Patrick decided he would "venture off and pursue the artistic side of me," he said.
So he moved to Los Angeles, where he discovered, "I couldn't beget acting classes, so I decided to hang out at The Comedy Store, where I could watch and have something for nothing."
He couldn't become a job there, however, considering owner Mitzi Shore would only hire comedians, even if it involved answering phones or running the box office. But when a managing director noticed "nursing assistant" on Patrick's resume, Patrick was all of a sudden "in" - well, sort of. Shore needed a caregiver, but wouldn't accept help from a nursing assistant.
" 'Nosotros have to trick her into thinking you're a comedian,' they said, and so I moved in with her and took care of her," Patrick said. "Every time she told me I needed to get onstage, we had to come upward with some alibi about how virtually I'm yet working on my material."
While at The Comedy Store, he began doing spider web marketing campaigns for several comedians. The social networking service MySpace hired him to work equally a comedy content producer, and that's how Patrick met Iglesias.
In 2009, he left MySpace to go director of online marketing for Iglesias, who eventually challenged him to come up upwardly with a 5-minute stand-upwardly routine. He gave Patrick two weeks to practice information technology, then allowed him to open a sold-out evidence at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando. In that location were 2,000 people in the audience.
"I did OK," Patrick said of his March 2010 debut. "That's not the normal start for whatever comedian. At present large crowds don't intimidate me."
Patrick described his sense of humor as "very silly. I'm real lighthearted, and make lots of light-headed comparisons nigh life. It'south observational sense of humor."
About an hour after the interview, Patrick sent an e-mail that said, "I joked about some friends hopefully remembering me, simply some sometime friends from inferior high school actually wrote to say they were coming to the testify. They can, nevertheless, expect the aforementioned level of maturity in my jokes at present as the ones I told in junior loftier."
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Source: https://www.jacksonville.com/entertainment/2013-03-22/story/comedian-northeast-florida-ties-opening-gabriel-iglesias
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