Dusty Slay
You can take the boy out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the boy… stand-up comedian Dusty Slay grew up poor on Lot 8 of a mobile home neighborhood in Opelika, Alabama, with a love for both classic country and rock and a career history peppered with jobs like waiting tables and selling pesticides. The trucker hat, long hair and mustache, flannel shirt and oversized glasses aren’t affectations to cultivate a stage persona as the B-side of a 1970s Bob Seger track—it’s just Dusty. He talks about universal truths and their absurdity…taking that simple truth to its highest level and bringing everyone to the middle of the aisle for some laughs in the process. “There’s still a lot of jokes to come. I looked at everything as experience,” he says. “Let’s not get mad about it, let’s enjoy it.” At 36, Slay has become the youngest comedian to ever perform on the legendary Grand Ole Opry stage in his adopted hometown of Nashville. To date he’s logged a dozen appearances in front of “his people” on the historic stage in the last couple years and has been asked by the CMA to host their festival’s Forever Country Stage to keep fans laughing between appearances by the biggest stars in country music. The breakout comedian has appeared on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Featuring and is set for a third appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this fall. In 2019 he joined Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in 2019 and has previously performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Comic Standing, and Laughs on Fox in addition to regular stints on “The Bob & Tom Radio Show” and a host of live appearances across the country. This holiday season Slay will be one of a handful of comedians to appear on season 3 of Netflix’s popular “The Standups.” Stay tuned for release date to be announced soon.
- Friday May 17th 07:00PM - Club 337
- Dusty Slay (Netflix, Comedy Central, Grand Ole Opry)
- Lafayette Comedy presents comedian DUSTY SLAY on Friday, May 17th at Club 337 inside the Doubletree Hotel.2 shows: 7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.Reserved Seats are available (first 3-rows) for $35 and General Admission for $30.Early access tickets go on sale Dec. 15th.General public tickets go on sale Monday, Dec. 18th at 9:00 a.m. central.In 2018, his show-stealing showcase at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival caught the attention of Hollywood tastemakers, but Slay’s irreverent sense of humor developed before he even stepped on stage, through over a decade of working thankless blue-collar jobs.Long before anyone had ever even heard of TikTok, at eighteen years old, Slay dropped out of community college. At 19 his plans to join the army were foiled by an arrest. By 21 he moved from his hometown of Opelika, AL to Charleston SC. On the coast, Slay worked as a waiter and pesticide salesman [dustyslay.com] for over a decade while moonlighting as an obscure, often drunk, open-mic comedian.It wasn’t until he quit drinking in 2012 that he started to take comedy and his unique talent for telling jokes seriously. His smooth baritone voice and relatable stories about growing up poor in a trailer park quickly made him a local Charleston favorite. After being voted Best Local Comedian and winning the Charleston Stand Up Comedy Competition both two years in a row, his well-intentioned friends and colleagues encouraged Slay to move to LA and take a shot at the big time.While this may have been sound advice for the average aspiring artist, Dusty wanted to try to make it in comedy on his own terms: by living in the South, without getting too far away from the home that grounded him.Today, Slay has close to half a million TikTok followers, Four Late Night appearances, a Comedy Central set, and a Netflix Half Hour Special under his belt. He enjoys selling out comedy clubs across America on weekends, then chills out at home in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Hannah and daughter Daisy. He’s even a regular at the legendary Grand Ole Opry, sharing the stage with the musicians he grew up loving.
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- Friday May 17th 09:30PM - Club 337
- Dusty Slay (Netflix, Comedy Central, Grand Ole Opry)
- Lafayette Comedy presents comedian DUSTY SLAY on Friday, May 17th at Club 337 inside the Doubletree Hotel.2 shows: 7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.Reserved Seats are available (first 3-rows) for $35 and General Admission for $30.Early access tickets go on sale Dec. 15th.General public tickets go on sale Monday, Dec. 18th at 9:00 a.m. central.In 2018, his show-stealing showcase at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival caught the attention of Hollywood tastemakers, but Slay’s irreverent sense of humor developed before he even stepped on stage, through over a decade of working thankless blue-collar jobs.Long before anyone had ever even heard of TikTok, at eighteen years old, Slay dropped out of community college. At 19 his plans to join the army were foiled by an arrest. By 21 he moved from his hometown of Opelika, AL to Charleston SC. On the coast, Slay worked as a waiter and pesticide salesman [dustyslay.com] for over a decade while moonlighting as an obscure, often drunk, open-mic comedian.It wasn’t until he quit drinking in 2012 that he started to take comedy and his unique talent for telling jokes seriously. His smooth baritone voice and relatable stories about growing up poor in a trailer park quickly made him a local Charleston favorite. After being voted Best Local Comedian and winning the Charleston Stand Up Comedy Competition both two years in a row, his well-intentioned friends and colleagues encouraged Slay to move to LA and take a shot at the big time.While this may have been sound advice for the average aspiring artist, Dusty wanted to try to make it in comedy on his own terms: by living in the South, without getting too far away from the home that grounded him.Today, Slay has close to half a million TikTok followers, Four Late Night appearances, a Comedy Central set, and a Netflix Half Hour Special under his belt. He enjoys selling out comedy clubs across America on weekends, then chills out at home in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Hannah and daughter Daisy. He’s even a regular at the legendary Grand Ole Opry, sharing the stage with the musicians he grew up loving.
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