Ashton Womack is an Emmy-nominated writer for The Daily Show on Comedy Central, a stand-up comedian and Houston native, who recently co-wrote for Trevor Noah while hosting the Grammys for the third year in a row.
Despite being in a familiar space, Womack tells me in an interview, he was able to overcome the nervousness but remained in a state of surreality.
"Houston has been super important in my journey, like The Secret Group since its inception," he explained. Even at a young age, Womack remembered he always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, and even his own father, who happened to also be a comic, helped him learn the craft. "I was out here struggling and that support system kept me alive for two years," he said. "Even though I was like, down and out, I was still making little wins that were like, ‘oh, I think I should still do this,' and at no point, did anybody ever say, ‘hey, stop doing this.’"
"I still don't believe it," he said. "It doesn't sound like a sentence in my mind. Sometimes I just like, ‘oh, nominated for it. What does that mean? What does that mean? Can I go and take this to like a Cracker Barrel and get seated first?’"He also recently made his on-camera appearance in a sketch, which came as an even bigger surprise.
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