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Bio
| Name: |
Stu Baker |
| Age: |
54 |
| Gender: |
Male |
| I'm a: |
Comedian |
| Location: |
Tempe, AZ, United States |
| About Me: |
Did you ever wonder where comedians come from? What kind of twisted psyche does it take to make a person want to continually go up in front of a group of people with a chance they might fail and experience a result many people fear worse than death?
Some say the comic perspective is formed in a troubled or challenged life. Humans laugh as a coping mechanism for adversity and the comedian's dramatic efforts are their attempt to control this elusive state.
If challenge and adversity are fert ...moreile ground for the comic, then Stu Baker has plenty enough fertilizer to be really funny.
At the age of three, Baker was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive neuromuscular disease brought to America's consciousness each labor day by the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Is this funny? Stu Baker thinks it is. Now 53, he tells audiences he's one of Jerry's kids. The audience laughs. Stu moves on. Let's move on, shall we?
As a child with the severe physical challenges that MD presents, Stu Baker soon learned that he could call positive attention to himself with a sense of humor about his condition. While it earned him positive affection from his peers in school, it also earned him numerous trips to the principal's office. The principal, it seemed, had no sense of humor. Stu would often leave the principal's office thinking, "Tough room."
But frequent detention did not discourage Stu Baker. At a very young age, he developed an entire stand up comedy act complete with references to President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson and "Milk is up to 27 cents a gallon? What's up with that?" He had dreams of being on the Tonight Show with Steve Allen ... then Jack Paar ... then Johnny Carson. But now they're all dead and it makes him worry about the well being of Jay Leno.
Somewhere along the line, he developed the bad habit of procrastination. He decided he'd get around to being a comedian later and installed a snooze button on his snooze button. He also began to have an additional recurring dream; that he would someday become a myspace whore. He didn't know what a myspace whore was then. (He does now.)
Before his now-famous comedy career, Baker got a degree in Psychology and immediately got work as an data manager in an engineering company (don't ask). He also worked as a professional musician, owned a recording studio, worked as a recording engineer and record producer, founded an independent record label and hosted a number of radio programs as a DJ in the Phoenix area.
For the last five years he has returned to his stand up dreams and attributes his recent success to two things, 1) The principal is now dead too. 2) He is a myspace whore 3) He is funny. See? He listed three things instead of just two. That's comedy!
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| Interests: |
| Filling out new online profiles on websites. |
| More Info: |
| It just so happens that I am a big fan of Standard Deviation. |
| Links: | Facebook me!!
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www.stubakercomedy.net
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vmhreha24
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great media...check out my profile when you get the chance
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