I have a Body Movement and it feels familiar. Theres been times when ive done a callback to a joker that i forgot to do, and so im doing this call back which means ill reiterate the punch line i said early on in the show. And i did that. I did it and nobody laughed, and i was like, rl hum, thats weird. I asked the audience, did i not do that joke like the blah, blah, blah . No. Never mind. Forget that. Sometimes it happens. Its a special moment with me and the audience at that point because they got Something Special nobody else for sure got. Absolutely. Were talking to comedian Angela Johnson here on many comunidad de del valle. Stay with us. She knows how to do hash tags. Shes a few years older than my dad so she thinks shes a cougar. Cougars be like [ laughter ] relax, mom. Youre like five days older. Were back with comedian Angela Johnson here ton comunidad del valle. Lets talk about your san jose roots. Talk about your time in san jose. Youre still here. 100 years strong. Talk about that. Yes, i grew up born and raised san jose. I love my roots. You talk to some people sometimes and theyre either like they cant wait to get out of their hometown or they dont want to go back to their hometown, and that is noted the case with me. I come back as much as i can. My family is there, my roots are there, my favorite trl streets, my memories. I love san jose and my tia, shes the queen of san jose, i call her. She just turned 100 years old. She was one of the original rosie the riveters. We celebrateds it. You covered it. It felt so special. Thank you. She was just so honored. I think it meant more than if we had a big party for her. If it wasnt quarantine, this was something so special she would have never had before. What makes her be part of, ill call it a routine, but of your performance . Shes just a loving person. She shoots off the hip and she says what she feels and what shes thinking. You know, i talk about my life, everything in my life. I talk about my mom, my dad, my siblings, my marriage, my dog. I talk about my life and it is such a big part of my life so it makes sense i would talk about her. Shes my grandmothers sister. My grandmother passed away in 2001. She was one of my best friends. I loved her dearly. I feel like if my grandmother was still here, we might not hear about it. She became my honorary grandmother when my grandmother passed away. I feel like im honored to talk about my tia mary. When i do i feel like im honoring my grandmother in a way. They are such important parts of my life. Again, my roots, my heritage and my blood, you know. Yeah, absolutely. In my profession as a journalist, i tell people that you have to be machimosmo. You have to be the first one to tell. How were you as a kid . Were you always the class clown, the funny one in class, the one that made everybody laugh . Whats funny is i was very shy growing up, and i was so shy, myphoto, im like this standing. Thats why i took my preschool photo. I didnt want anybody to look at me. I was just like closed off shy. Once i started cheer leading, i came out of my bubble. Im a performer. Before that i grew up very shy, but then i would perform for my family and things like that. As far as like being the funny one of the family, im actually not. I would say my brother is the funny one who hes not a performer, but when you get him in his space in his zingers left and right. Thats how my dad is. My dad is mr. Zinger, my grandpa mr. Zinger. I feel like im the one who made a profession out of it, but my whole family is pretty funny. I can imagine the thanksgiving dinners at your home. You talk about your cheer leading days as a raiderette. How high of a cloud were you on when you were at the coliseum and cheering on the silver and black . Listen, i when i first tried out to be a cheerleader for the oakland raiders, i was using it as my sign to pursue the entertainment industry. I was like, i didnt know what i wanted to do with my life. I was going to Deanza College at the time. I wanted to be an actress. I was ashamed. It seemed so farfetched. The audacity, to say i wanted to be something as big as an actress. Where do you be an actress in san jose . They dont film things in san jose. The audacity to have something that big. I tucked it away in my heart and i would never share it with people. I had a friend who moved to l. A. , she moved to hollywood, she started acting and dancing and music videos. She was like, if you move to l. A. , i will help you get started and i will help show you the ropes. So now this like farfetched fantasy was an attainable dream for this little girl from san jose. I was like, okay, i started thinking about it. Then i had athe oakland raiders. She tried out. Tryout. Im going to tryout and use it as my sign. If i make the squad, ill do it for one year then ill move to hollywood and pursue my dream to be an actress. If i dont make it, ill know thats not for me and entertainment is not my route. So i drove to oakland from san jose by myself. I tried out with 700 girls. I ended up making the squad and that year was the best year to pick to be a cheerleader for the oakland raiders. We went to the super bowl that year. We went to hawaii to film a calendar photo shoot. And i got home from the super bowl and the very next weekend, i packed up my room and i put it in my Station Wagon. My handmedown Station Wagon that my mom gave me and i drove to l. A. And ive been here ever since, i started from the ground up and worked as an extra. My friend kept her word. She taught me how to get start and had keep pursuing my dream still connected to m from. And youre making older women laugh, middle aged men, youre making little girls laugh. Thats got to be such a rewarding feeling. I love that my audience is so diverse, from age, sex, ethnicity, its all over the place. And i love that because i feel like thats a reflection of me and my love for people. So its really cool to look at my audience and see everyone represented. All right. Were talking with san jose native comedian Anjelah Johnson on comunidad dell val grandpar leave messages on cell phones as if its an answering machine at home that everyone can hear. Have you gotten that message on your cell phone, this one, hello [ laughter ] are you there . And then they get mad at you because they think youre purposely not answering. So im doing my nails right away, but her american name is tammie. You have boyfriend . No, no, i dont have a boyfriend. What about him . Its okay, i do for you. I do it for you. Only 4 more. Thats okay. Do you like little gel . What . Were back here on comunidad del valle with comedian Anjelah Johnson. Everybody has been hit by this covid epidemic, affected one way or another. Your industry entertainment, how difficult is it to not go on that stage and make people laugh, especially in a time like this . You know, youre right, in a time like this is when we need to laugh most. But ill be honest, it has been for me a nice break and a breath of fresh air to not be on a plane traveling. Ive been touring for 13 years nonstop, and its been a breath of fresh air for me to be home in this place that i call my home that i would rarely get to see. And to for a while, i got to grocery shop a little bit, no, going to do online orders. You know, traveling, i take for granted things that i love to do. And just like be home, go to my grocery store, go on a walk in my neighborhood. And so ive been enjoying that actually. I see your instagram posts and your husband is hilarious. You guys make an awesome team. Thank you. Talk about how you two click. It seems like you two click and he gives you fire and you give him fire. Oh, for sure. We definitely bounce off of each other. He actually loves it when people think that hes funny so im going to tell him that you said that. Hes like, people dont know im funny, too. Okay, relax. But, yeah, he definitely he brings out the best in me and i like to think i do that for him, and hes such a great partner and, you know, hes puerto rican, and im mexican. We had a lot of learning to do. Oh, youre so similar, youre both latino. Actually, no, were not that similar actually after all. And, you know, i started writing jokes about him and how i love spicy food and he cant even handle pepper and just like the differences of like he puts ketchup on everything. I put salsa on everything. And its just its interesting to see our differences and how we actually bring the best out of each other. Yeah, im very lucky. Well, we love watching it. Thank you. Has this time off allowed you to maybe rewrite, rethink of how you write i mean, i cant wait to see what yall come out with once this is all over and you start hitting the stage again. Listen, i cant wait to see either. I dont even everything is going to shift and change a little bit, and im okay with that because things need to shif areas. So, of course, im still going to be a story teller and sharing those things. I dont know what stories i mean, were all going to have some quarantine stories. Maybe ill tell stories about my tiktok dances that ive learned. Let me tell you one thing. Tiktok, these 14yearolds that know how to do all the crazy edits and zoom in and zoom out, all of a sudden youre upside down, i never felt so old in my life. Im like, i cant even figure this out. My husband and i tried to figure out tiktok together. Let me tell you, it will lead to divorce if you dont do it correctly. One of us figure it out and teach the other person. Who knows what stories were going to tell. You guys have the choreography down. To be honest with you, my kids are my i. T. Department here at home. They can figure out how to do this interview and others, and so these kids are just amazing. Anjelah, maybe to those little girls out there who are getting to talent shows and maybe think they want to be the next anjelah. You know, i would say whatever dream you have in your heart, whether thats to be an actress, a dancer, to have your own store, your own clothing line, whatever it is, you want to be a chef, whatever it is, do you and do you well because there is no one like you. There can be people that look like you. They have the same hair color as you. They say oh, you guys look similar. But nobody has your trauma. Nobody has your victories. Nobody has your overcoming. Nobody has your parents. Nobody has your siblings. Nobody that thing that happened to you when you that make up you, who you are, yourhen you show up to do whatever it is you want to do, do you, and do you well because to the best of your ability. Dont try to be somebody else because what you have is so unique to offer and only you carry that. Thats awesome, is thats beautiful. Last question for you. I interviewed another comedian a few years ago, hell remain nameless, but he says in comedy its easy to hit the easy button when you start pulling out expletives and using other forms that may be insulting to some people as comedy. It must be easy for you to keep it clean and keep it funny. You know, i feel like however you speak in life, this comes back to do you and do you well. Like whatever is in your language and your mannerisms, thats what you take to the stage. You dont try to be Something Else that youre not. So i feel like, sure, it can be the easy way or the hard way, depending on who you are as a thats what comes out on stage and i love that by me me, i get to have the young ones come and the old ones come. Everybody come. Keep doing you because its just hilarious. Any final thoughts, anjelah, before i let you go . I appreciate your time. I thank you. Thank you for having me today. This is so, so special, and a big happy birthday to my mother in san jose who celebrated a birthday this past week. So happy birthday, mom, i love you. Great. Thank you, anjelah. I appreciate your time. You take care and be safe. Bye. Thank you. And well be back here on comunidad del valle. Stay with us. Thank you once again for watching us here on comunidad dell val yea. Next week you want to tune in. Its the first latino president and ceo of an nhl franchise, the president of the Arizona Coyotes javier gutierrez. Hes a san jose native, went to east side schools and graduated from bell man high school. Hell be on our show next week. Were going to lighten the mood a little bit and give you some comedy with Anjelah Johnson. See you in next week. My husband and i were stille. Were still figuring each other out, our Little Things we do, our little rules we have. Right, like for instance, like, my toothbrush, right . I like to be the only one that uses my toothbrush. [ laughter ] this guy, i dont know how he grew up. But he came to me the other day. Hey, babe, can i use the toothbrush real quick. I said, what . Like, thats the option for you . [ laughter ] like, youre thinking about it . Sick. [ laughter ] hes like, what, its just like kissing. We kiss, the same thing. I do not scrape off your tarter with my tongue. [ applause ] [ laughter ] i mean, i know im pretty amazing. [ laughter ] but im almost positive i cannot prevent cavities. [ laughter ] my husband likes to leave his shoes right in the middle of the walkway. Like, as soon as you open the door, boom, shoes. Now, you couldnt kick them off to the side . That was hard to do . So all throughout the house, i just trip over shoes. [ laughter ] ooh [ laughter ] were still real new so i still try to look cute when i sleep. [ laughter ] i probably grow out of that one real quick. But right now i still try to look cute, right . But its kind of hard because i sleep with invisalign treys in my mouth. So sometimes when i wake up my lip gets stuck to the plastic trey. I wake up looking like fire marshal bill. [ laughter ] like let me show you something. [ laughter ] face will be all greasy. Thats not cute. So when i feel myself starting to wake up, ill fix my lip real quick. I put grease on my lip like its gloss. [ laughter ] make it work. birds chirping woman chattering [narrator] ordering dinner for the family . family gasps rewarded with a side of quiet. baby murmuring grubhub rewards you, scooter horn honking get a free delivery perk when you order. doorbell rings [group] grubhub. 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