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For his performance at a comedy club, Andy Kaufman once brought a sleeping bag onto the stage, curled into it, and spent his entire act napping before the audience.
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The past year has made me think a lot about giving back to my community, and I’ve been looking for new ways to help people out.
That’s why I was so verklempt to read about one celebrity who has been giving back in a deeply personal and meaningful way.
Grammy-winning comedienne Tiffany Haddish and her four younger siblings went into the American foster care system when she was just 12 years old.
As she told David Letterman:
“You’re dropped in these strangers’ houses, you don’t know these people, these people don’t know you, you don’t know if they’re gonna hurt you, if they’re gonna be kind, you don’t have a clue what’s going on.”
What always stuck with Haddish about making the foster care experience extra difficult was that when children are moved from home to home, they’re handed a garbage back to pack up their things.
It made her feel like garbage.
And then one day, in a small way, someone made a huge difference in her life.
Instead of a garbage bag, they gave her a suitcase. Now Haddish felt:
“Like I had a purpose, like I’m a person like I’m not garbage, I got this — it’s mine, and my things are in here, and wherever I go I can take this with me and I’m going somewhere.”
For years, Haddish had encouraged her fans to bring suitcases to her shows and donate them to foster children, including the Beech Brooke organization of Cleveland, Ohio:
These are only a few of the suitcases donated to Beech Brook through @TiffanyHaddish and the @ClevelandImprov's suitcase drive to benefit our foster care kids! Thank you to Tiffany and the Improv, along with all the people who so generously donated! pic.twitter.com/SuAcAeKkIs
— Beech Brook (@BeechBrookCleve) November 21, 2017
And The Villages of Indiana:
These are just some of the over 95 suitcases donated from last week’s Tiffany Haddish show in Bloomington. The…
Posted by The Villages – Foster Care, Adoption, & Family Services on Friday, October 4, 2019
After watching her interview with Letterman on Netflix last fall, a foster care specialist from from Lake County, Indiana, Shanell Manuel took note:
Watching the David Letterman interview with Tiffany Haddish who's a Sagittarius. When she spoke about how getting her first suitcase made her feel like a traveler, like she had purpose instead of feeling tossed about like trash while in foster care – I, a Sagittarius, felt that.
— Astrology by Mecca (@TheMeccanism) October 25, 2020
Haddish’s point about garbage bags struck a chord with Manuel, who had herself been bothered by the same thing.
As Distractify reported:
“She reached out to Tiffany’s She Ready Foundation, whose mission is to “protect, provide resources, and ensure normalcy for foster children.”
Once again, Haddish came through with 100 suitcases for Indiana foster kids last Christmas.
We wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU to @TiffanyHaddish. Tiffany – who has publicly shared her own experiences of being a child in foster care – wanted to do something special for Indiana's children, and boy, did she. More than 100 suitcases!
Thank you, Tiffany! pic.twitter.com/hWDcHaCIdS
— Indiana DCS (@IndianaDCS) December 11, 2020
And her work has inspired other organizations to do suitcase drives in their communities too.
@somegoodnews I have been inspired by @TiffanyHaddish! We are organizing a suitcase drive this week for local foster kids in Albuquerque, NM. Our goal is 250 suitcases to help some beautiful children to feel special! #ourpastsdonotdefineus pic.twitter.com/aBpeO2FjDG
— ABeeQ Homes (@belinda75) March 1, 2021
But she’s not finished yet.
As Black Enterprise recently reported, Haddish’s She Ready Foundation has got a new project to help kids who age out of the foster system start careers in the entertainment industry:
Tiffany Haddish to launch She Ready internship program https://t.co/GHAU0apy2W pic.twitter.com/ZPOpIrfld4
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 15, 2020
The program is supported by Tiffany Haddish’s She Ready Foundation and Ready To Succeed, a Career Accelerator for foster youth, who will provide training, mentorship and ongoing support.”
It’s truly amazing to see someone so dedicated to helping out such a deserving and under-served demographic.
What do you think about the suitcase challenge? Let us know in the comments!
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Comedian Katt Williams was sued in 2012 by fans for “non-performance.” He performed a long-winded rant for roughly ten minutes, challenged an audience member to a fight, and angered fans paying upwards of $94.
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Howie Mandel got expelled from high school for impersonating a school official and hiring a construction company to build an addition onto the school.
While being mad about having to work on New Years Day, children’s TV host Soupy Sales, during one of his programs, asked children to send him the “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their parent’s wallets and purses. He received thousands of dollars in the mail and was suspended for […]
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
I often think about this quote when I ride in to work every day and consider what I’ve done with my life. Because we had all that time! And what did we do with it? Eat gummy fruits and watch reruns? Why wasn’t I investing in stocks?!
Thankfully, there’s Twitter. Where comedians hang out and tweet funny shit that we can all relate to.
Let’s have fun.
To child:
The good news is that when you're a grownup, you can eat ice cream for dinner. The bad news is that it's because you're depressed.— Elizabeth Hackett (@LizHackett) August 27, 2015
Childhood: I can be anything I want to be when I grow up!
Adulthood: Please someone just find me a job that doesn't make me wish for death.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 14, 2016
Childhood: I can be anything I want to be when I grow up!
Adulthood: Please someone just find me a job that doesn't make me wish for death.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 14, 2016
It's cute how I used to think this "barely-holding-it-together" feeling was temporary.
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) February 17, 2015
. this image describes how I feel about sliding into adulthood pic.twitter.com/nTC2TGaDzc
— Tammie (@txmmiemc) January 22, 2016
Being an adult pic.twitter.com/TCgXc0xqWf
— Nikki Polansky (@nikkifaceful) August 27, 2015
My vision board is just a picture of me sleeping.
— Paige Kellerman (@PaigeKellerman) January 28, 2019
KID: *falls out of tree* I'm fine
ADULT: *sleeps on neck a little strangely* I have to turn my whole body to look at you for the next week— batkaren (@batkaren) December 17, 2015
When parents say to kids "go to ur room & think about what you've done" it's really good practice for what you'll do every night as an adult
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) September 18, 2015
The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
— Chez McCorvey (@CelebrityChez) October 9, 2015
You're not an adult until you have a cabinet full of Tupperware and every time you open it they all spill out and you can never find a matching lid for the one you want to use.
— Collin Whitchurch (@cowhitchurch) August 7, 2018
True mark of adulthood: instead of your parents scheduling your doctor's appointments, you just avoid going to the doctor & hope u don't die
— Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) August 27, 2014
I'm an adult, and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want, and I wish someone would take this power from me.
— Mike Primavera (@primawesome) May 17, 2014
9 yo me: wow I love my public library yes I’d like to check out 14 novels that are above my reading level. Be back next week
Me now: wow I love my public library yes I would like to check out one—I believe it’s called a Bööke? I will be back in 3-5 business months
— your friend abby (@a_bi_gal) August 18, 2018
Remember when you were little and you'd fall on the trampoline and everyone would keep jumping so you couldn't get back up? That's how adult life feels
— Ric (@PrettyRicc) October 15, 2018
Adult culture is just walking around constantly astounded by how much everything costs
— Brit Bennett (@britrbennett) August 2, 2018
Now that was some good adulthood! I feel MUCH better about ALL my choices.
What do you think? Do you struggle with being all grown up and stuff?
Let us know in the comments!
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Silent film comedian Buster Keaton got his start in his father’s vaudeville act at the age of 3. His act would be to goad his father into throwing him across the stage, and he became so good at falling that he rarely got bruises. He was eventually billed as “The Little Boy Who Can’t Be […]
English playwright Oscar Wilde once said, “Youth is wasted on the young.”
I often think about this quote when I ride in to work everyday and consider what I’ve done with my life. Because we had all that time! And what did we do with it? Eat gummy fruits and watch reruns? Why wasn’t I investing in stocks?!
Thankfully, there’s Twitter. Where comedians hang out and tweet funny shit that we can all relate to. Sure, it can be depressing to think about how your life has turned out so far, but at least we can all laugh at it.
Right? We can laugh at it?! It’s funny right?! RIGHT?!?!
I kid. Let’s have fun.
. this image describes how I feel about sliding into adulthood pic.twitter.com/nTC2TGaDzc
— Tammie (@txmmiemc) January 22, 2016
Afternoon me: Ooh, I can bake this salmon, do some potatoes, sautée some spinach and arugula. That’ll be good.
Evening me: *eats a sleeve of thin mints*
— Nichole
(@tnwhiskeywoman) January 21, 2019
My vision board is just a picture of me sleeping.
— Paige Kellerman (@PaigeKellerman) January 28, 2019
KID: *falls out of tree* I’m fine
ADULT: *sleeps on neck a little strangely* I have to turn my whole body to look at you for the next week— batkaren (@batkaren) December 17, 2015
9 yo me: wow I love my public library yes I’d like to check out 14 novels that are above my reading level. Be back next week
Me now: wow I love my public library yes I would like to check out one—I believe it’s called a Bööke? I will be back in 3-5 business months
— your friend abby (@a_bi_gal) August 18, 2018
Remember when you were little and you’d fall on the trampoline and everyone would keep jumping so you couldn’t get back up? That’s how adult life feels
— Ric (@PrettyRicc) October 15, 2018
Adult culture is just walking around constantly astounded by how much everything costs
— Brit Bennett (@britrbennett) August 2, 2018
When parents say to kids “go to ur room & think about what you’ve done” it’s really good practice for what you’ll do every night as an adult
— pat tobin (@tastefactory) September 18, 2015
Being an adult pic.twitter.com/TCgXc0xqWf
— Nikki Polansky (@nikkifaceful) August 27, 2015
True mark of adulthood: instead of your parents scheduling your doctor’s appointments, you just avoid going to the doctor & hope u don’t die
— Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) August 27, 2014
To child:
The good news is that when you’re a grownup, you can eat ice cream for dinner. The bad news is that it’s because you’re depressed.— Elizabeth Hackett (@LizHackett) August 27, 2015
Childhood: I can be anything I want to be when I grow up!
Adulthood: Please someone just find me a job that doesn’t make me wish for death.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 14, 2016
Childhood: I can be anything I want to be when I grow up!
Adulthood: Please someone just find me a job that doesn’t make me wish for death.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 14, 2016
It’s cute how I used to think this “barely-holding-it-together” feeling was temporary.
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) February 17, 2015
The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
— Chez McCorvey (@CelebrityChez) October 9, 2015
You’re not an adult until you have a cabinet full of Tupperware and every time you open it they all spill out and you can never find a matching lid for the one you want to use.
— Collin Whitchurch (@cowhitchurch) August 7, 2018
FRIEND: so how are you?
ME: I’m well, thanks!
FRIEND: what’s new?
ME: not much!
FRIEND: well, what have you been up to?
ME: why are you doing this to me
— Not Sara (@smithsara79) March 26, 2018
I’m an adult, and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want, and I wish someone would take this power from me.
— Mike Primavera (@primawesome) May 17, 2014
Okay, that settles it. Ice cream and thin mints for dinner.
To the dollar store!
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The first time comedian Jerry Seinfeld walked on stage at a comedy club he froze and was booed off stage. 00
The Three Stooges, during their 23 years with Colombia Pictures, were chronically underpaid and never received a pay increase, because the head of the studio convinced them that they were unpopular with audiences. 00
