Tyler Kelley

I don't have much career experience in this field. If experiece means ive been paid for my services at some point then i have none. Everythings been charity i guess up to this point. I don't believe "being funny" is something that can be taught or aquired. Its something you're born with. You either have it or you don't. I don't want to sound arrogant at all by my statement that " I was born to make people laugh" because i'm not an arrogant person. I just know what I'm good at and I also know what I'm not good at, which is a lot of things. I guess an achievment of mine would be that i was voted "wittiest" in my high school senior class. Ive also done some voice over work from time to time for promotional videos. I'm also very creative as a writer. In college I wrote and starred in a horror movie that won first place at a movie festival put on by my college. Now i had no training besides high school english classes for the writing aspects but the story, camera work and i guess the whole knowledge of how to produce a movie just came naturally. I was also involved in a radio program in college. I went to a christian college so they set the guidlines for my radio hour as having minimal speaking with a very limited song selection. Now when i signed up for the class i had envisioned quite the different format for what ide want my radio sho to be like. The first week i kinda laid low. I did some impressions of the college president and i did some improptu fake phone conversations with people that were well known around campus. It was funny because people could call in to the station but there was no way to broadcast the phone conversation on air so it was kinda stupid. But essentially it was jjust me doing a fake phone call to myself and i would just impersonate the voice of the other person. After the first couploe of shows i started getting a nice little following and people would come up to me during the day tell me that they like the show and i started getting lots of phone call for requests and such during my hour. I then decided to start having guests on the show. Ide invite some of the bizarre people i had met around school and we did segments where one would tell Helen Keller jokes, another would read the less popular sections of the newspaper, we'd have a dating game where callers would call in and answer guest related trivia and the prize would be a date with one of the interesting and typically not attractive guest from my show. It was all goodtimes. The last two weeks of the semester i was doing my show like i always did and me and one of my guests i guess went a little overboard with some material and the communications dean came busting into the studio. He told me he'd had quite enough of my crap. Then he kicked my guests out of the studio and proceeded to tell me how not funny i was and that my show was the worst show he'd ever heard and that i would not be making an A in his class because of it. So i said alright and i went back on air and announced the newly formatted not fun show where it would be all music all the time because speaking on the radio apparently wasnt important to the communications department. i finished that class out and they reformatted the whole class and its super strict now. So apparently i single handedly ruined radio practicum for everyone. I may be a little proud of that one. I'm a natural voice talent. I have no formal training of any kind. My voice talent has been achieved more or less in an informal way. From an early age I've been immitating voices, doing impersonations, putting on improv plays, entertaining other children, speaking publicly, etc. I've just always loved to entertain people around me. Its what makes me happy. The fact that I have ADHD might also play a part in why i'm the way I am. It seems whenever I get in front of a group of people to speak they end up laughing at everything i say and its always been that way. I don't know why really. It can be a curse sometimes i guess because no one ever takes me seriously but if it can be used for business purposes, then i guess it can't be all that bad.