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AJ Wilkerson talked to News 12 about how he got his start in comedy and his upcoming shows in New Jersey.  

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Comedian AJ Wilkerson performing 3 shows in New Jersey 

Are you looking for something to do tonight? Well, Tony Caputo is in studio with AJ Wilkerson, a comedian who is here in the Garden State performing this weekend. Good stuff. R AJ Wilson comedian. Uh it says, just told me he still lives in a car is what you do. Yeah. Just uh still a lot of travel. Just I'm on the road constantly AJ is in Jersey tonight and tomorrow night at Bananas. Yes, tonight and tomorrow night uh Rutherford at Bananas Comedy Club Sunday at a helium comedy club in Philly. Uh I'm all over the place. Man. I go straight from there out to Texas. It's a self proclaimed captain autism. A DH D. That's part of the show, right? You talk about that. Yeah, that's part of the show. I, I let my brain get weird and I kind of explain how it works a little bit that basically the, the format. No kidding. Now, let me, let me just say this. If I may. Anybody who gets up on stage and attempts to make people laugh has my utmost respect. How did you get started in doing this? Uh I literally, uh I, I after I got diagnosed, I started working with an occupational therapist. And at one point during therapy, she basically challenged me to go like as like a homework assignment to go try like an open mic. That's tough. That is tough. And now you, you got 100 and 46,000 Instagram followers and you're all over the country. Um Yeah, I'm all over the place. I uh I started doing, it, fell in love with it, couldn't stop like, and it was, it turned out to be like, good for my brain and like it started like getting, getting out to open mics and going and doing comedy, like kind of got me like, like re acclimated to like socializing again. And yeah, and then just started hitting the road, went all over the place uh won a contest uh in Kansas City that opened for Jason Muse. Um And then that just went awesome and he started to bringing me on the road with him. So, like been on the road with him for like over two years now. Um And you got a special, you're gonna record that's gonna air later. You're gonna do this this month, right? Yeah. So um the, the last day of this month, actually, June 30th in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Um We're filming my first comedy special. Um And it's because of the whole, like going on the road with Jay and stuff. Um I've, I've just built such a relationship with him. It's being executive produced by Kevin Smith and Jason AJ Wilkerson. Look, go to his Instagram page. He's already a ton of followers. You can join in catch him tonight. Eight o'clock, Ruford Bananas Comedy Club or tomorrow 7 30 or 10. And he's also in Philly on Sunday night, AC at Helium Club that is at seven PM AJ. It's been a pleasure. Hey, thank you guys so much for having me Got up. I mean, we're here at noon, which I'm a comedian. So this is like my six AM, so I'm barely awake. Well, we appreciate your time. Good luck. I appreciate it so much, man. Thanks for having me. I'll see you guys tonight. Take care. All right.

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