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Who Is Kountry Wayne?
A few years back, Atlanta’s Wayne Colley began posting videos of himself on Facebook and Instagram. Keeping the camera tight on his face, Colley created a series of two-to-three-minute comedy bits. In one, he desperately tries to let a friend know that the woman he’s dating is in fact a man. In another, called “That One Co-Worker Who Talks Behind Your Back,” he attempts to steal a promotion away from his best friend by informing his boss that said friend smokes weed in their work truck, adds extra hours on his time card and commits various other offenses, which winds up getting him and his friend fired.
Over the past four years, those videos have racked up more than five million views, with the top two, “When Your Homie’s Girlfriend Looks Like A Boy” and “That One Co-Worker ...” sitting at about 1 million total views. Colley, who posted the clips under the name Kountry Wayne, had loved comedy his whole life, but the success of the videos took him by surprise.
“I started putting up videos in 2014. By October of that year, I had some that went viral,” Colley recalls. “And it went crazy after that. I just kept posting them and eventually people started wanting to see me doing stand-up live.”
Moving from being a social media star to a live performer isn’t always an easy transition, but Colley jumped in with both feet, launching the Child Support Tour in 2017, its name a nod to Colley’s nine children. He follows that up with the Gift Of Gab tour, which brings him to the Comedy House in Columbia for several shows starting on Dec. 12.
“Being onstage is different, just because you can pause or rewind a video or do whatever you want to,” he says. “I wouldn’t call it an easy transition, but it was smooth, simply because I loved what I was doing; I do comedy better than I do anything else. And eventually I ended up being more comfortable onstage than I was doing videos, if that makes any sense.”
As a stand-up, Colley talks about his own life and universal things that seem to bother all of us - relationships, bills, kids and the like.
“I’m like the uncle at the cookout, standing at the barbecue tellin’ all kinds of stories,” Colley offers. “I talk about what I’ve been through and things I’ve seen, and I put it into a way that people seem to love.”
After encouragement from both an early manager and from some fans of his online material, Colley decided to keeps it clean when he performs live, which wasn’t always the case with his videos.
“My first manager told me to work clean, because she said it would surprise the audience,” he explains. “And I had older people coming up to me and saying, ‘I love your videos, but I can’t watch them with my grandchildren.’ So I stopped cursing and it worked out fine; I picked up a wider audience.”
It might sound like a compromise, but working clean doesn’t bother Colley. In fact, not much bothers him at all, now that he’s doing what he considers his dream job.
“I’m enjoying what I do so much,” the comedian says, “and I just appreciate having fans that want to see me. So it doesn’t matter if I have to do it dirty or clean or whatever.”
His language might not be cutting-edge, but there’s a high-wire element to what Colley does. He takes what he calls a “freestyle” approach, essentially changing his act on the fly, based on what the audience responds to.
“I go up there and freestyle and talk to the people,” he says, “and whatever sticks, I do it again. I’m writing onstage every night, whether it’s a 10-second bit, a 10-minute bit. Whatever comes in my mind, I want to talk about it, and if it works, I’ll use it again. If it doesn’t, I’ll throw it away.”
Colley also talks about his faith, which is not something a lot of mainstream stand-ups do. In fact, his new CD is called Help Is on the Way, a phrase he says is about his belief in God.
“It comes from the beginning when I was making those videos,” he says. “I had faith that help was on the way. So I say to people who are going through things that if you believe it, help is on the way. People saw me online, and eventually they’ll see me on TV and in movies because I had faith. And I want people to apply that to whatever they’re going through.”
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14 июн 2023
