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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) – It’s not groundbreaking to say that caffeine is conducive to a nice chat.
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We met up with comedians Nicole Kerbs and Randall Moore at Queen City Grounds for a little coffee talk.
“But if there’s anything else you kind of want to bring up,” Kerbs told Moore, ordering java and prepping for a casual conversation. Only this one’s on camera.
“Ready, Freddy?” asked Kerbs.
Later, up on the rooftop at The Refinery, Kerbs is almost ready to roll.
“Don’t mind me and my madness, sorry,” she says, positioning her equipment to get a great angle with the Queen City skyline.
“I’ve got [to] make sure this camera is on,” Kerbs said just before show time.
“And my guest today is Randall Moore,” she begins.
In March, she launched her YouTube series “Charlotte Comedians Getting Coffee… in Charlotte.”
“I wanted to find a way to showcase not only the comedy scene but also the comedians behind it,” Kerbs says.
“I interview local Charlotte comedians at local Charlotte coffee shops to talk about how they started in their comedy career, what they’re working on, and some of the trials and tribulations they’ve run through,” she said.
“I’m a very active member of the Charlotte comedy community. I have seen so many of these comedians hustling every week,” Kerbs says.
As she interviews funny man Moore, the cup of Joe is just an icebreaker.
“An iced latte with caramel and whole milk,” he describes. “It’s delicious.”
The questions range from the choice of microphone to the personal side of pursuing comedy.
“Who would you say is your celebrity doppelganger?” Kerbs asked.
“Kimbo Slice,” Moore answered.
There you have it, the series is a slice of comic life.
When Moore first took the plunge at an open mic night in Gastonia four years ago, laughter ensued.
“That releases a little bit of dopamine or serotonin for us, so I think we’re a little bit addicted to it,” Moore said.
“Everyone does it for different reasons, and also everybody’s background influence their comedy style and the way that they approach things,” Kerbs told Queen City News.
“Would you rather do a show at a one-horse town biker bar or like a super affluent country club in Ballantyne?” she asked Moore.
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“Ooh, Biker bar,” he answered
After moving to Charlotte, Kerbs began doing improv to meet new friends.
We can’t leave out the fact that she also does a fun impersonation of actress Jennifer Coolidge.
“You have to narrow your eyes,” she said, becoming Coolidge. “And it’s just a lot of like, ‘Oh, I really want a hot dog real bad.’”
Kerbs has lots of material as a Filipino American woman living in the South.
“So, my white friends have been calling me their brown friend,” she told a crowd. “And my brown friends keep calling me their white friend. So, I feel like someone’s diversity hire either way.”
“Observational,” she says of her style. “Spoken though the perspective of a very quirky, socially awkward mixed brown girl kind of things, so.”
The one-on-one conversations in her series reveal local comedy origin stories and the challenges they face along the way.
“Always like a balancing act,” said Moore, who told Kerbs why he can’t say yes to every gig.
“I have three small kids at home, so it is difficult to go out every night to do comedy. Because then my wife has to put everybody to bed, and that’s like not great for our marriage,” Moore said.
“Even though see them week after week, they surprise me with things I didn’t know about them,” says Kerbs.
“What would you say are some of the cool things about the Charlotte comedy community, or things we do well?” she asked her guest.
“A lot of the veteran comics that have been around for a minute are really good about being supportive of the new people that come up,” Moore says.
Moore is confident that nothing he says on “Charlotte Comedians Getting Coffee… in Charlotte” will be held against him.
“She told me she wouldn’t use it any sort of deposition or anything. Like if it comes up in a court case I think I’m fine, haha,” he joked.
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Kerbs can vouch that he’s a stand-up guy.
“It’s been a really endearing kind of experience,” she says.
“And we will see you next week,” said Kerbs, concluding her show.