Can't Go Back to Teaching | Brad Upton Comedy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- I miss the good ol' days of teaching
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About Brad:
The world is discovering comedian Brad Upton after 36 years in the standup business. Brad was teaching the fourth grade and coaching high school track in Pasco, WA when he first stepped on stage in 1984. He quickly decided that he wanted to do standup instead, so he quit teaching in June of 1986 and never looked back.
He made several cable TV appearances in the early 90s, headlined comedy clubs from coast to coast, opened for big-name music acts, and was hired to perform at corporate events. He never sought the brighter lights of LA or New York and chose instead to remain based in Seattle where he and his wife of 35 years raised their now 28-year-old son and 26-year old daughter and he could continue his offstage hobby.
As his reputation grew and his work became renowned, Brad began working on the occasional cruise ship in 1999. He then won the Las Vegas Comedy Festival in 2002 and appeared at Caesars Palace as part of the HBO Comedy Festival. He toured briefly with the late, great Joan Rivers and has spent the past 15 years as the opening act for the legendary Johnny Mathis. He has also been seen in concert with The Smothers Brothers, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, George Jones, Glen Campbell, Little Big Town, Smokey Robinson, Pam Tillis, Joe Diffie, Lewis Black, Jeff Foxworthy, Neal McCoy, and others.
In 2017 he taped a special for a brand-new comedy platform called Dry Bar Comedy. Things would soon change in ways he never expected. Dry Bar released a clip of Brad in June of 2018 about millennials that went viral in ways very few comedy videos have ever done. It had 12 million views in 48 hours, then 33 million views in 10 days. It sent his CD to number 1 on the iTunes Charts and had him trending on Twitter. The world became suddenly aware of this ‘new’ comedian. That video today has nearly 90 million views and according to Dry Bar, is the most viewed standup video ever. He has released two very successful specials on Dry Bar and now has well over 200 million views on the internet. His immense internet fame drew the attention of the iconic Grand Ole Opry where he had the ultimate honor to step into the circle and make his debut in September of 2019 and has since become a regular guest.
So how does someone catch fire in his 32nd year? The internet. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have suddenly led millions of people to Brad’s comedy and they have discovered a comedian that has mastered the nearly impossible task of appealing to people from the ages of 18 to 80. No one has been more surprised than Brad; he has been very humbled by the newfound fame at this point in his career and is currently working feverishly all over the country to take advantage of his moment in the sun. After a rather significant health scare and diagnosis in the early summer of ‘22, Brad is grateful for this late-career validation and every one of you that read this far.
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Brad, I got out of teaching in 1985 and I've never looked back. The field of teaching has lost a lot of it's luster.
Great job.
Thank you Lopez.
My principle had a one by six piece of wood with the grip part cut out for the shape of his hand, AND one inch holes drilled into the butt hitting part. VERY EFFECTIVE! Thankfully I only needed the one time!
Principle? Go back to school, it's principal.
My dad was a public school teacher. The first time I saw him cry was when the state of Indiana passed a law paddling students. He had just made a brand new paddle too. With holes in it. He never got to use it. Everytime I got paddled at school was for defending myself in fights. Guess who told me I had to defend myself in fights -my dad.
Still hoping you will visit us in TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN
Yep, Father Burchill had 3/4" plywood paddles and bamboo canes, Father Caridad used the blade of an oar.
Canadian grocery store aisles still hear, "I'm just gonna sneak right on by you ..." (For a while, during lockdowns, the aisles din't hear that. Even Canadians thought the little arrows were going to "save lives.")
I was wrongly accused in 9th grade and denied being paddled.
Someone came forward and noted I was innocent, yet the principal still wanted to paddle me.
No, you will not.
I got the leather strap across the hand.
Right or wrong ???
Seriously what has right or wrong got to do with anything? Binary thinking is not useful since we dispensed with heaven and hell
Am I the only one feeling uncomfortable hearing this? Joking that way about it seems to be a coping mechanism.
For those who lived through that, we look back at those days with fondness. We actually brag about who got the worst paddlings. Also, he's joking about it because he's a comedian. It's his job.
Let me guess. Millennial?
What coping mechanism? About what or which part?
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In the 70s there was supposedly a "Rule" that a kid could only get 4 "Whacks" per day and the follow up was "If a kid is so bad, or acting up so bad after 4 whacks then they should probably get their 4 whacks and then after school or in school suspension or GASP, suspended from school which was fine with me, but the "Suspension" was NOT fine with my parents or the football, wrestling or baseball coaches
The "Suspension Rule" supposedly meant that the suspended student could not participate in that weeks game or match and that wasn't good for the head coaches or parents and this "Ineligible to play" rule was never enforced on any of us starters, and rarely ever happened to the kids that even "Sat the bench" either so I guess the "Rules for thee but not for me" was blatantly obvious even back then but I just didn't see, or notice it at the time because I was too busy getting into trouble haaa haaa
I found out how the school principal and coaches handled the suspensions and 4 whacks rule/conundrum one day when I got into a little trouble and received 8 whacks within a 5 to 8 minute time span. I got 4 whacks from the study hall monitor and within that short 5 to 8 minute time span I received 4 more whacks from the principal who also thought that he was on a Par 5 hole and lit my ass on fire
Did I deserve the supposedly illegal 8 whacks? The first 4 whacks I most definitely deserved but not the last 4 whacks but I got them anyway. I also knew that if I put up a fight and refused the additional 4 whacks then my parents would have been called and I didn't want my dad to know!
IF my dad would have known about any, or all of the trouble that I got in and I refused the extra 4 whacks and would have been suspended, I would have received a few more whacks when I got home that day BUT the absolute worst part would have been that I would have also been grounded and in my house "While being grounded" meant that I would have had to do my brother's "Chores" around our little farm until my allotted time of being grounded was over.
The customary grounding period was usually about a week long. I sure as hell didn't like the part about the extra whacks when I got home that day but I REALLY hated the part about doing my brother's half of the chores and taking care of all of the animals for a week, especially in the winter time and especially during the "Blizzard of 77/78" in "Podunk Ohio" part so I bent over, grabbed my ankles and "Felt the BURN" from my 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th, supposedly illegal whack of the day.
About 10 or 12 years ago there were two school districts in my area that brought back "Corporal Punishment" or "Whacks/Paddling" and most parents were fine with this form of punishment being reinstated at these schools, it went over well enough that a few more school districts brought it back also but some parents went ape shit over the thought that their precious little angels would be wrongly accused of something and get their "Hides Tanned" so they signed a waiver that stated their kids could not be "Whacked" but would receive either in school, or out of school suspension.
Needless to say, the kids of these "OH GOD NO! NOT MY CHILD!" parents usually didn't play sports or even participate in any extra curricular activities except maybe some kid MAY have played in the school band or was in the "Thespian Club" and even then there were no coaches to get pissed off, no grounding at home or any extra chores at all to do around their house, hell there was more than likely no chores of any kind for these types of kids and their parents
Yes. You're the only one. Kids are now being handcuffed in elementary school. Ya think that's less traumatic to a kid than a swat from a principal?