Stephen Harvey motivational speech text for success
I was miserable in my life. I didn't like wakin' up , I ain't have no purpose , I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing. On October 8, 1985, I walked in a comedy club for the first time, signed up for the following week. The following week, a girl took me down there, she said, " You got to go to comedy club, you the funniest person I've ever met" . I'd never even heard of comedy clubs. I'm 27. I walked into the comedy club, I sign up for the following week. I'm gonna sit here and learn. I knew I was funny, I just didn't know what to do with it. They had 10 acts go up. Nine of 'em went up, I didn't laugh at one joke. I was just sittin' there just, " Man, I wished that was me. Man, they shoulda said this. " Every joke they told, I knew the punch line before they said it, and I wrote a better punch line in my mind, what they shoulda said. It got to guy number 10, they called his name, ...