Latasha Transrina Kebe gets ready for her stand-up set at Tulsa Comedy Club, a converted movie theater with a high-quality sound system. She's nervous, joking about her accent while the crew handles sound checks, wine glasses, and lighting cues before she takes the stage.
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I grew up here. Yeah, I'm in Tulsa. I have a country accent, but I don't use hard Rs like You know, Missouri or Oklahoma, y'all say her. I'm nervous as hell. So as always, and guys, this— I got to tell y'all a little bit about this comedy club. It's different. They got a club, they got pool tables, all types of shit. Now we going to go down the steps real quick. Jason, be careful. Yeah, you going backwards. We got to be careful.
We got to be quiet though because they doing the introduction. And yeah, we don't want to—
no, we'll stay right here. Okay, hear me talking, right? I know some of the winos in the crowd out there probably on the line. They done got the damn, uh, alert. Y'all see my security? What's up? What's up, security? Yeah, look like he done fucked up a few motherfuckers in his day. Shit, he said just a few, just a few. Oh God, I'm always nervous. Jesus, this light about to give me a damn seizure. Okay, Tulsa, we're just gonna make it do what it do, okay? We're gonna make it do it. Y'all see my little wine glass that Tulsa gave me? It's fancy. I gotta start bringing my own on the road, but you know the way Delta and these airlines be handling the damn Flights and shit, they gonna break my shit, like for real. So, but yeah, I know I got the jitters. I got the jitters, y'all. I'll be getting some— I'll be getting so nervous sometimes. Have you ever gotten so nervous sometimes that you get musty a little bit? That'd be me sometimes. That'd be me. But luckily my perfume overpowers the mustiness. So usually I can hide it and ain't no wino gonna run into me and be like, girl, you musty, you know what I'm saying? And so that's a good thing, that's a good thing. But it's just, it's nerves, you know what I'm saying? These shows ain't easy. It could be 20 people, it could be 500 people. You just, you just have to roll with it. So are we ready? Why are we not ready?
Let's take another 3 minutes.
How they doing in the comments? How we doing in the comments?
Wine glasses everywhere.
Wine glasses for Tulsa, Oklahoma. Okay, Kansas City, y'all up next. Hard R, Kansas City, y'all up next.
Almost ready.
Y'all use them hard Rs like Baltimore. Almost ready. Huh, what'd you say? I'm so nervous. Yes, wine glasses. Wine's up. But luckily I don't have the shaking nervousness. Like I said, I just get musty. You ever been nervous before? You get musty too sometimes?
See, I ain't the only one.
And my security say he get nervous too. Okay, this wine is hot. It's a white wine and it's not supposed to be hot. All right, Tulsa, you ready? Huh?
I thought it was room temperature.
It's not. White wine is not supposed to be room temperature.
Okay, but it was chilled, remember?
It was— it wasn't chilled. I think it was a warm bottle that was put in the ice and it didn't have time to— okay, to go through the whole bottle. Yeah, so, um, oh, we about to start the show.
Oh shit, Dosa! Dosa! We about to start.
Yeah, we got a nice little crowd. I'm excited. I don't care if it's 10 of y'all motherfuckers that show up. We going to have a good time, bitch. Okay, she—
oh Lord Jesus.
Okay, this where y'all start to see the little girl in me, the punky me, the bitchy me, cuz y'all, y'all bring it out of me. Yes, don't nobody else do this. Okay, all right, all right, all right. So we getting ready. Jasmine says you ready. Okay, all right. They trying to get the wine to move up because it's a big place, like some history. So the place, the Tulsa Comedy Club, used to be a movie theater, so they turned it into a comedy club. And then they have like other clubs here, bars and stuff. So yeah, it's pretty cool, like big space. And the sound system is probably the best that I've seen. On this tour. So they say we ready, y'all. They say we ready. Tell her make sure that shit bumping now.
Jasmine, she said make sure it's bumping.
That shit, that music, that fucking shit bumping, bro. Oh God. Oh Lord Jesus God, pray for me.
Say hello to Couture.
Hey Couture, babe.
Hey.
All right, let's go. All right, let's go, let's go.
There we go, there we go, hold on, there we go. How you doing, you fuckheads? Y'all spin that shit one more time! All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. 1, awesome! I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming! Yeah!
Listen, it feels like I'm at home for real. Like, I'm not from Panama City. There's a beach, but Black folks don't go to it, okay? Look, we just thought we see the water from here, we good. We at the bar with our margaritas.
What's going on, y'all?
Now listen closely, y'all know we streaming live on YouTube, okay? So they watching y'all now, they watching y'all. It's time for y'all to let them other scenes show y'all a lot of shit. Fuck them! I gotta sell tickets, y'all. Listen, but look in that camera and say, now you got a motherfucking gopher now.
