Pierre Edward and other new-age comedians redefining the genre

patdlucky
Instagram: @Patdlucky (Photo credit: Michael King)

What made you turn to IG to display your talents?

To show people my vision of comedy and tell my story while putting a smile on their face at the same time. My dream is to be as big as Eddie Murphy. I love how he can play just one funny character like in Boomerang or do all different characters like in Nutty Professor, Norbit and even Coming to America. I know he started at “SNL,” which is one of my favorite shows, and even branched out into doing animated voices like Donkey in Shrek. It’s a career goal to be on SNL or develop a new sketch comedy show like In Living Color then move on to doing big time movies.


When was the first time you realized that you were accepted into the SM comedian circle?

An IG comedian, LexxyBTv, reached out to me and shared my videos then introduced me to other comedians and they liked my style of characters and [fan] base.


Do you believe that the social media comedians can stand a chance against the traditional stand-up comedians? Why?

I feel as if it depends on the actor/actress because everyone has different styles andvisions when it comes to comedy.

With social media being your platform, this allows you to be more reachable to your fans, in which ways does this impact your career? On social media you can be more hands on by answering messages or telling people to meet up at a spot on this day at this time. You also get people involved by reposting them if they redid a video acting like you in their own way or following them back on Snapchat or Facebook.

Prior comedians wrote their shows out, do you follow the same protocol or would you consider your style more improv? How do you come up with some of your concepts?

I improv a lot of my material and feed off what my other characters said. I come up with a lot of my videos from life events and growing up in a biracial community with four sisters and three brothers.

With social media being the one of the fastest growing trends for new age comedians, what makes you different from other social media comedians?

I’m very versatile and I can portray different types of sexes, races and cultures and not get hung up on one type of character.

Subscribe
Notify of
0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Join our Newsletter

Sign up for Rolling Out news straight to your inbox.

Read more about:
Also read