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  • This is all of the work that I had done.

  • This is me getting off of work driving to Chattanooga,

  • to do shows and going to work the next day

  • or driving to Asheville,

  • driving to Mobile, Alabama.

  • All of the stuff that I had done up until that point.

  • This was me...

  • This was something for me going...

  • You're doing the right thing.

  • (upbeat music)

  • A lot of work goes

  • into a short late night stand upset.

  • Join me, J.P Buck,

  • as I spotlight that comedians who came up with

  • some of my favorite comic sets.

  • This is, The Setup.

  • Please, welcome...

  • They're very funny.

  • Dulce Sloan.

  • (upbeat music)

  • So I think we had met at Bridgetown

  • and then we had met in 2015.

  • We met at Bridgetown

  • and I think I saw you again at JFL?

  • Yeah.

  • I'm very bad with names.

  • Very bad with names.

  • So you had called me

  • and asked me to be a part of...

  • Like a couple months later,

  • I was still back in Atlanta.

  • You had called me to do a showcase for Turner at Flappers.

  • Mmh.

  • And you're like, " Hey, Dulce, this is J.P.

  • And I was like, "hello."

  • I had no clue who the hell was on my phone.

  • No, not a, not an inkling of who the hell was on my phone.

  • And so you're like, "yeah, I want you to do

  • this showcase for Turner."

  • I was like, "okay."

  • And so I just been out there the week

  • before to do Stand Up For Diversity.

  • And it was like to...

  • Like I had just quit my day job.

  • Like, I was like, "Jesus, what am I going to do?"

  • I'm a ding dong.

  • I had no clue that you were looking at get...

  • Like I was in...

  • I was auditioning basically to do a late night set.

  • None, nothing, none, no clue,

  • I'm a ding dong.

  • So my manager calls me at the end of January

  • and he's like, "hey, listen, just heard from J.P."

  • I was like, "Oh, that's nice."

  • He was like, he's like, "are you sitting down?"

  • I was like, "I can be."

  • He was like, "so you're doing Conan."

  • And I was like, "yeah."

  • He's like, "in two weeks."

  • And I was like, "what?"

  • (upbeat music)

  • The set that I had in mind when I was doing my set,

  • I was like, I just need to be this good.

  • And it's Solomon Georgio's set.

  • That's the set I had in my mind

  • when I was getting ready for this.

  • And he did it a year before me.

  • But I was like...

  • And I had never met Solomon before.

  • Cause I hadn't moved to LA yet.

  • And now me and him were really good friends.

  • But I remember seeing him like everybody.

  • I remember everybody talking

  • in Atlanta,

  • talking about Solomon's set

  • and that's the set that I had in mind.

  • And I was like, "I just need to be this good."

  • And then he ended up...

  • He posted it after I did it.

  • He was like, "you know,

  • this is the best way

  • to celebrate my one year anniversary

  • of me doing Conan."

  • And he posted my set and I was like, "hah, hah."

  • (upbeat music)

  • Shout out to your hairdresser, who did my afro?

  • We started hairdressing,

  • and me and my manager looked at each other

  • and we see this white woman standing there.

  • And he was like, "can you style an afro?"

  • She goes, "I learned how to do hair in the 70s."

  • And I was like, "she's fine. She's fine."

  • (laughs)

  • I wanna give credit to whoever...

  • Oh, I might cry.

  • I don't know who the stage hand was,

  • who opened the curtain

  • and handed me the microphone.

  • But when I finally got back there

  • and I was just like, "okay."

  • And he just...

  • He's holding the microphone

  • and he's on the curtain.

  • He goes, "you got this, done this 1000 times.

  • You're fine. You know your markets."

  • And I don't know who this man is,

  • but I will give him a baby.

  • If he asked me.

  • Like that,

  • he kinda like,

  • kinda knocked me back into place.

  • And I was like, "I'll give him a kid

  • If he asked me."

  • That's all I'm saying.

  • (upbeat music)

  • I know y'all are wondering,

  • "why can I see this big chick's bra?

  • (audience laughs)

  • Simple question, simple answer.

  • This bra was 100 dollars.

  • (audience applauds)

  • That's it.

  • Cause if I pay a 100 dollars for anything,

  • you're gonna see it.

  • (audience laughs)

  • My mother asked me to wear high waisted pants.

  • So my tummy did not show.

  • I did not care.

  • She said, but it'll give them...

  • She said,

  • it'll bring more emphasis.

  • She said, if she the...

  • if the right skin is showing,

  • then you'll bring emphasis to

  • where you wanna bring emphasis to.

  • You're dressing in this way

  • that has people thinking

  • and questioning something.

  • And you were answering that question right away.

  • Worth me going, listen,

  • you see these titties.

  • They're out here.

  • Take it in, breathe them in, live in it.

  • And it was just me kinda signaling like,

  • "listen, I'm having fun.

  • Listen, this is a great opportunity.

  • And you know, y'all are enjoying the show,

  • but we gonna have fun."

  • And that's what I wanted to convey

  • because the thing is,

  • I'm not having fun,

  • they shall not gonna have no fun.

  • Now its got an issue with gay men grabbing my boobs,

  • especially at brunch.

  • (audience laughs)

  • You're sitting there drinking mimosa.

  • All of a sudden,

  • boom gay man's hand right here.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Pulsing.

  • Looking you in the face, going,

  • "Oh, girl it's all right, I'm gay.

  • (audience laughs)

  • It's why you can't do it.

  • (audience laughs)

  • Cause no one puts the keys in a Lamborghini,

  • starts the car and gets out.

  • (audience laughs)

  • (audience claps)

  • So if you grab a boob,

  • you having sex with me, gay man.

  • (audience laughs)

  • That's a TV friendly version of that joke.

  • Yes.

  • The version that you've been doing

  • in clubs and festivals,

  • which is not TV clean, No.

  • You do use</