My name is Darren Knight, AKA Southern Momma now
and
(upbeat, rockin' music)
I'm just, oh,
skinny white boy tryin' to make a life for myself.
I really enjoyed my 20s, I really did.
When I got in middle school I started gettin' very social.
And uh, uh, you know when you're in elementary school,
you got those few friends.
Well, mine would move away.
I would, I would find myself alone,
I got out of junior high.
So I have a choice,
than to just kinda be friends with everybody.
And it ended up payin' off.
That thing had a lot to do with my personality.
And so that, that same mindset went on into my 20s
so I really got to goin' around.
Always kinda wanted to do videos, and comedy,
and a lot of people know that you know,
my videos and my stand up career,
you know, or so to speak, or whatever,
kinda start at the same time.
And so I did that and then it just blossomed from there.
You know the one video took off
and everybody knows the rest of the story there, you know.
So I got really, I got blessed.
And I, I don't, all.
I used to say I got really lucky, but, um
you know I think that he, you know,
God's got a plan for everybody
and it just worked out well for me.
And I, uh,
But it happened really fast.
We come from very humble beginnin's in our family.
So we didn't, you know.
Anything that we ever had, we had to work for it.
I remember the first video I put up,
Mom was like, "You need to take that down.
"I mean, I like,
"People gonna think,
"people in town gonna think we're crazy."
(laughs) So, ah,
but I just, I just ran with it, you know.
And I just ...
People ask a lot, "Do you have kids?",
you know, or whatever, and I,
I don't have kids.
I don't have any kids.
I, I got a couple nieces I love.
I got a coupla, uh, uh, family friends,
and they got kids, and they're always around.
And they kinda inspire a lotta the stuff.
I have a very, uh, vivid memory rather of,
you know, when we were growin' up.
So yeah it, uh.
Yeah my family, they (chuckles)
they first, they were a little reluctant,
but I can understand that, you know, we don't ...
In the south, you know, you want,
you're very prideful of your last name.
You're very prideful of your family.
You're very prideful of where you come from.
You know a lot of people don't have it like we do.
I don't really, I mean, once this thing took off, you know,
it started gittin' such a ... (smacks lips)
It started gettin' so much support so fast.
A lotta comedians, they kinda dig their self a,
a character root, so to speak, okay,
and I don't wanna do that with this character.
Now I like Southern Momma and everything,
but I mean, I want, when I get on stage,
the show's a lot different from the videos.
If I stood up there for 45, 50 minutes
yellin' at invisible kids,
it'd get a little redundant.
You know what I mean?
So I want somethin' that everybody can relate.
I mean I want other people to enjoy it.
I want everybody to enjoy it.
So that's why I do that.
Uh, if I wanna start doin'
the character of an old man for the resta my life
or somethin' like that,
I wanna be able to do that.
And I don't know how long I'm gonna be doin' it.
You know everybody's got,
they somethin' that they, them,
that they wanna do.
And I think that if you really wanna do somethin',
go for it.
I really do support that.
You know, life's not always just a bag of treats.
You know what I mean?
There's going to be rough times, and bad times.
You know, I don't mean to sound cliche, but,
I'm getting all emotional again,
it's just, I didn't think I was goin' to be where I'm at,
and I'm grateful to be here.
And anybody can do that, you know.
No matter what you do.
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