As well as acting and co-producing on The King of Staten Island, Veles may look familiar if you’ve seen Larry Wilmore’s Comedy Central evening show, where Veles often appears on screen as a reporter or panellist.
The individual lessons for the first hour serve as an introduction to his thoughts and upbringing:
As a child from Queens, he sometimes struggled with his mental health. His place in his family, and being a better father to his son.
The class starts with a psychological blast, avoiding the intro or the audience applause. And dives right into Veles’ action. Where the first thing we hear him say is, “I can handle the idea that my brain isn’t working properly.”
He likes to play stories from the Dominican Republic where drug dealers seem to take unusual steps to comply with laws prohibiting them from leaving the beach.
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And he gets serious at times when he describes his upbringing with his parents and compares it to the handling of his new role as a father.
Veles is still growing in off-stage roles and beyond. There were times when he won the audience more with his charisma than his material. And sometimes, I want the material to be a little more mature.
When did he consider homos*xuality an appropriate name? This is a requirement that headliners had to do years ago.
At the same time, the dumb bits like meeting a pigeon and wondering if it left him with random superpowers are stupid enough to work. The fact that he’s tagged this section with the line “Being myself is exhausting” lets us know that he at least has the right kind of confidence and that we love it when his subject gets another fantasy flight.
He is also ready to crush with a peg or two with self-deprecation:
She admits that she believes the doctor who gave birth to her son identified the umbilical cord as a skill set. And some of his parts certainly paint an exciting picture to imagine being remade in future sitcoms, such as how he views and interacts with his wealthy father-in-law.
One of those feelings of flow limit/omission gives the recommendation an edge because so many other trusted names are already backing Veles. You saw something in this queen’s son, so you should do it.
Born in New York
Honestly, it means more to me than anyone else because I’m actually from here. Everyone said, “Um, I’m just a New York comedian. No, and you’re a tourist in my own city. It’s actually funny because some people have told me that I have a problem in my shoulder for this and it’s like.
“Yeah, I did.” “When I started comedy, I laid the rug. We used to come to New York, wear the red carpet to events, and pick it up the next day. I was trying to make my dreams come true while Adrian Grenier, damn it, passed my shit. It was just actually reall weird. One of my boys did get fired for yelling at people in the troupe. He said, “You want to see a real motherfucker from Queens.”
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I have a chip on my shoulder to do all these things. I used to work in a comedy club. I painted the comedy club ceiling on the 53rd. I don’t have parental support for an apartment for myself. Before that, I had to take the F-Bahn to the last stop, return to my house, stay in my basement, and head back to town the next day. Half an hour bus plus the last stop of the F train. There’s nothing I haven’t done to make my dream come true.
And New York is with me all the time. I want to say my high school will not show love to me. This is crazy. I saw him write about someone the other day. I thought, “When did I do this?” But I went to performing arts high school, so it’s nice to see kids who haven’t been able to chase dreams like.