“I write about my life. I guess if I got a therapist I’d probably not have to do as much stand-up.”
“That’s really helped me,” he says, over Zoom, from a sunny room in Florida in the midst of his two-week arrival quarantine. “I just want to maintain a good, happy energy for the kid. He’s about to be two. And he’s so impressionable that I don’t want to be all sad around him. Me and my wife had that debate because one of my friends that I work with, he has a 12-year-old and I mean, that’s a very weird age to be explaining the world. And it’s just a tough time.
Velez is a born and raised New Yorker — he grew up in Queens with his two brothers and his mother, who had them consistently enrolled in activities to keep them off the streets. Velez ended up at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, which was opened by Tony Bennett and where drivebys by the likes of Lady Gaga and Billy Joel were common.
“Me and him were, from a young age, working. We got work right away, which was rare,” Velez says. “We were both the youngest in the clubs. So we just came together very easily and we just became best friends.”In the film, as in real life, Davidson’s father was a firefighter who died in the 9/11 attacks. Velez lost his own mother four years ago on Valentine’s Day, when she died suddenly.
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