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Two minutes with Jake Flores
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photo / Kristin Hillery Jake Flores
That Other Paper’s Christine Acker chatted with local comic Jake Flores after he performed at Punchline, a weekly stand-up comedy open mic at ColdTowne Theater.
That Other Paper How did you get into doing comedy?
Jake Flores[Keeps looking at the tape recorder]
TOP [laughs] You don’t have to look at that. I’m standing right here.
JF Well, tape recorder… What’s your name?
TOP Christine.
JF Well, Christine. I live across the street from Cap City, so that kinda helped. The other thing is I’ve always been really into comedy and thought I’d take a crack at it. I just kinda walked over [to Cap City] and said, “Oh, I can try this! I’m funnier than half these people!” And I was!
Another thing is that when I first moved here I saw Doug Stanhope play at Emo’s, and it might sound weird, but I was a little bit moved. I was like, “Wow, this guy is really smart.” A couple of Austin comics who I did not know at the time opened for him, and I was like, “Wow, there’s a really great scene here.”
TOP Do you remember who you saw?
JF Lucas Molandes and Brendon Walsh. I didn’t know them at the time, and I was just blown away by the scene here. There’s a lot of really interesting people here. And comedy… I don’t really remember how I started it. It just became kinda like this weird addiction. It’s just a nice place to go at the end of the week and hang out and be kinda crazy. I don’t know why I do it, man.
TOP How did you hook up with ColdTowne and start doing Punchline?
JF I started off doing the open-mic circuit around Cap City, and I went to the Velveeta Room, and I just heard about this place — “You know, there’s a little cool hole-in-the-wall place.” It sounded really cool and I don’t live too far away so I just emailed in and I love it. It’s my favorite place to perform.
TOP So you go to UT?
photo / Kristin Hillery
JF I go to UT. Sort of. I’m not a very good student. I’m not really the college student type. I like this scene because it’s a lot of older folks who are more mature and actually have a sense of humor and don’t just go around quoting Borat all the time. I just do not connect with my own generation very much.
TOP Would you say you’re an old soul?
JF Definitely. I’m an old man trapped in a 20-year-old body.
TOP What are you studying?
JF Art education.
TOP Art education? I didn’t even know that existed.
JF Well, it’s studio art, but with a teaching certificate.
Where to see Jake Flores
You can see Jake Flores perform at ColdTowne Theater’s Punchline, Cap City Comedy Club’s Sunday open mic, and the Notorious Open Mic on Thursdays at the Velveeta Room.
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