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After gaining millions of followers for videos poking playfulness at Silicon Valley identity, this woman quit her tech job to be a comedian full-time
You may have seen Alexis Male lover on Twitter, where her videos playfully skewering Silicon Valley culture often move viral.
A recent post captioned "every single park display in San Francisco" — where she spouts quips appreciate "Oh, are those the new AllBirds?" and "That valuation was actually hilarious … they don't even have any users" — has 1.9 million views.
Gay has racked up nearly 3 million followers on audio app Clubhouse and more than 82,000 on Twitter and also runs a podcast where she interviews media, business, and tech moguls about "everything but their resume."
In January of 2021 she decided that she was reeling in enough ad revenue from that project to grab the plunge and quit her tech-company day position to focus on her comedy and podcast career full-time. Here's how she became the :
Her journey from tech to comedy
Gay had moved to Fresh York for school with the dream of becoming an actor, but her first taste of the tech world as an intern at an events startup in 2013 hooked her. In true techie fashion, she fe
Comedian Alexis Gay Makes Fun of Silicon Valley. And Silicon Valley Loves Her For It.
Not even a month into the pandemic, Alexis Gay was missing, confused, and beautiful miserable. Like most people. Alone in her studio apartment in San Francisco, Alexis Gay turned to the equal outlet to cope she always had: comedy. On the afternoon of April 11, 2020, she posted a quick video to Twitter with the line “every party in San Francisco" with typical phrases heard in the city.
- "Uber prices have been so high lately."
- "I wish I could stay later but I have to get up soon to hike."
- "Oh, it's fine, they're poly."
Turns out, it was the levity people were craving. Rapidly, she racked up more than 3 million views, and in three days, she went from 950 Twitter followers to more than 15,000. (Today, she’s closer to 102,000. Dang.)
“It was prefer I had been doing a stand-up show for an intimate group of 50 people, and I’m up there holding the mic and all of a sudden 10,000 people pour in, and they are just standing there staring at me blankly, waiting…. Fancy , ‘Ok, go ahead,” Gay told Worklife.
This follower spike, while stemming from one partic
Alexis Gay: Unprofessional
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
The debut show from New York-based comedian Alexis Gay makes some unlikely lemonade from the comedic lemons of getting severe burnout in a soul-destroying tech sales job.
An unusual type A character in a creative industry, Same-sex attracted has only recently deviated from the path laid out for her by her parents’ expectations and the demands of a ‘good CV’. Raised with what she describes as a ‘middle-management parenting’ style, she remembers organism six years old and getting paid $100 by her father to make a PowerPoint deck on stoicism.
She’s wise to clearly establish her character as a recovering perfectionist early on, because Unprofessional is a show that relies more on storytelling than it does on jokes. The image of herself that she builds in our minds as a naïve and industrious worker bee has little intrinsic humour but she’s a sharp enough writer to throw in some good lines on a regular basis and keep it engaging.
At the beginning of a promising career and (she hints) trying to win the approval of her father, Gay is scouted by a hot new tech company and
The funniest person in tech wants you to know that Mark Cuban and Kara Swisher are people, too.
You might not know the name Alexis Lgbtq+, but you know Alexis Gay.
You’ve seen her videos, which perfectly articulate the absurdities of functional in tech, deftly navigating the hottest topics of discussion while also entity exhausted by them.
“One of the things that’s funniest in tech is the complete and utter lack of self-awareness.”
– Alexis Gay
You probably saw them as they started blowing up during the pandemic. As Alexis describes on this podcast, they then started really blowing up.
So much so that Alexis quit her career in tech doing BD at Twilio and then Patreon—a company built to support creators—to get a creator herself: a comedian and podcast host.
In many ways, this conversation is an exploration of how a keener, over-achiever improv/drama kid abandoned the tech career road many of us are still on to become an entrepreneur in the new media landscape—very topical 2022 stuff.
But as I noted above, she’s still talking and thinking about tech. On her excellent podcast Non-Technical, this keener, over-achiever improv/drama kid spends a lot o