I said, ‘If I’m dressing up like a ninja turtle, my career is over. He said, ‘No one is gonna see you.’ I still turned it down. “I was like, ‘I can’t do it,’ ” Florentine said. Stand-up sets with no microphone is one thing, but donning a kids costume was a bridge too far. Just walk around the party in the costume and take pictures with kids.’ ” Do you want to do a kids party? You have to dress up as a ninja turtle. “I was struggling for money, and this guy had a business where if they needed a comedian for a bachelor party, they would book me,” Florentine said. That is unless it involves dressing up a superhero. So I was standing in the middle of a restaurant telling jokes as waiters and waitresses and people at tables were going, ‘What the hell is this guy doing with no microphone?’ But there’s a point early in your career where you just take any gig you can.” “I did one in a restaurant where it supposed to be this private party in one of the rooms,” Florentine said. He even had the occasional gig sans sound system. Getting his start, backyards, basements and bachelor parties were the norm. Jim Florentine has been a successful road comic for more than two decades, but in his early years, he did his fair share of bizarre gigs.

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