Growing up, comedian Kellye Howard felt invisible. Her parents showered attention on her two siblings, so Howard tried to steal it back. “I wrote stories and cried until my dad would sit down and listen to them,” she says. “I’d interrupt very heated backgammon games.”
Howard was discovered in a Foot Locker while studying theater at Columbia College. A promoter overheard her venting to a coworker about a family of customers who’d claimed to speak no English but were obviously fluent in the language. Within a week Howard was opening for Damon Williams at a Holiday Inn in Matteson, Illinois. She quickly moved to Los Angeles, imagining stardom on the stand-up stage. But at the time, she admits, she didn’t even know what a set was supposed to be structured like, or how one was constructed.
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