Why I Quit Stand-Up Comedy — and What It Taught Me About Growth

Man, lemme tell y’all somethin’ real…

Back in 2012, I was at the height of my grind. I had my talk show, my radio show, “Family Feud,” “Little Big Shots,” “Showtime at the Apollo”… at one point I had SEVEN shows on air at the same time. But I realized real quick: you can’t keep one foot in stand-up and the other in TV and radio. Not no more.

See, stand-up is raw. It’s honest. And it’s risky. You gon’ offend somebody — it comes with the territory. But when you got sponsors, and you feedin’ hundreds of families, one bad joke can shut the whole thing down.

I had to make a choice: keep my TV empire or keep stand-up. And for me? I chose to protect what I’d built, because too many people were depending on me.

It wasn’t easy. Stand-up was my first love. But you gotta grow… you gotta adapt… and you gotta make moves for your future, not your feelings.

Sometimes you gotta walk away from what you love to protect what you built.

What’s something you had to let go of in order to grow? Drop it in the comments — I wanna hear your story.