Alton Walker is a versatile comedian, speaker, and social media influencer known for viral content like his God Ain’t Please rants and Animal Church Voiceovers. He’s opened for comedians like Kevin Hart and Mike Epps, and is the lead writer and on-air personality for “The Morning Hustle” (Urban One/Reach Media). Alton has collaborated with influencers like Desi Banks and B. Simone, and tours with Rickey Smiley. He also empowers youth through his NextIn Line Network, offering workshops, speaking engagements, and comedy performances. In today’s episode, Alton shares personal insights into his failed venture into stock trading, refocusing on his comedic purpose, and the role of social media in his career. They also explore the deeper fulfillment derived from comedy, the impact of inspiring audiences, and the importance of embracing greatness. Takeaways: Staying true to one’s talents is important Recognize greatness to seize opportunities Embrace and own greatness Sound Bites: "I don't bash people; I highlight humor in our everyday experiences." "Authenticity trumps perfection in content creation." Connect and Discover Instagram: instagram.com/altonwalkershow/?hl=en Facebook: facebook.com/altonwalkershow Website: thealtonwalker.com Youtube: @mrwalker1 𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗘 𝗢𝗡: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mickunplugged/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mickunplugged/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIPaMel-Fb4zQmCSZDPHu4A LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickhunt/ Website: https://www.mickhuntofficial.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mick-unpluggedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is Mick Unplugged about?
Welcome to Mick Unplugged, where we ignite potential and fuel purpose. Get ready for raw insights, bold moves, and game-changing conversations. Buckle up. Here's Mick.
Chapter 2: What should I know before listening to this episode?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. This one's going to be a little bit different. I'm starting with a public service announcement and a disclosure. If you are driving your car, go ahead and pull over. If you're eating food, put it down.
If you are drinking anything, sit the cup or glass down because Mick Unplugged and Mick Hunt will not be responsible if you wreck your car or choke on food or water today. Because today's guest... is a versatile comedian, a speaker, a social media influencer, a media personality whose content has taken the internet by storm over the last several years.
Known for his God Ain't Please rants, he has shared the stage with comedy legends like Kevin Hart, Ricky Smiley, Mike Epps, and many, many more. But beyond the stage, he inspires and uplifts youth, conducting workshops and seminars on high schools and colleges. Ladies and gentlemen, I told you the disclosure in PSA.
Get ready for an uproarious conversation with my guy, the person I consider top five comedian alive, Mr. Alton Walker. Alton, how you doing today, brother?
Man, what's going on, man? What's happening, bro? I'm just trying to be in your world, man. Man, thank you for letting me be in your world. For real, man, I appreciate it. Hey, y'all excuse my background, man. I got stuff falling off and everything on my wall.
All good, man.
You got to create your own personal studio so my soundproof stuff is falling off and everything. I want a background like yours. I'm like, look at his background.
Hey, $5 still goes a long way, bro. $5 and I got you covered. I got you covered, man. So we gave everybody enough time to pull over and to put all their food and drink down. So we're going to get into it, man. Like, again, I've been a huge follower of yours probably since the R&B workouts, right?
Oh, yeah, man.
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Chapter 3: How did Alton Walker get started in comedy?
One of the things that I love about you and that I admire about you, though, is that you actually do make it a craft. Right. Like you don't take even the content creation piece. It's not just like I'm just going to throw some stuff out there like you really hone it in. And I think a lot of people miss that, whether they're a comedian in their business life, in their personal life.
They don't try to master a skill. Yeah. You master that crap, bro.
Yeah, man, I believe if you're going to do it, become a student of whatever you do. You know, I just, you know, and that was with everything. When I was, I originally wanted to be a drummer, you know, and I will play, I will play drums for hours and hours and hours, just trying to become great at playing drums. I wish I would do it for basketball, but. I probably would have been in the NBA.
I just didn't know. I didn't have that concept of what hard work can, you know, bring to you. But anyway, yeah, man, I believe you be a student and be consistent and work hard at anything you do, man. You're going to be successful. I really want to know the ins and outs of what comedy is and how to create comedy, what makes people laugh. I read books about it. I know formulas about it.
You know, I know the ins and outs, and I'm still learning, you know. So I believe you, you become a master of whatever you want to do or just don't do it at all. No half step. You know, that's how I am, man.
And you're the perfect person to answer this question, because I have this conversation. I'm a I'm a huge fan of comedy, of stand up comedy, of the writing of comedy. And I tell people all the time.
cookout funny and being on stage when people expect you to laugh funny are two totally different things and you were just kind of elaborating on that too about the reading and the studying for everybody out there man like let them know just because you funny at a cookout don't mean you can go bless the stage for 15 30 45 60 minutes they people and people do it all the time they think they could be funny and i'm like get on that stage man and they get on they be like whoop
It's a lot of social media comedians because they get on stage for the first time and they be like, oh, it ain't what I thought. And you still got some comedians that's just naturally funny. They don't quite know what they are doing, the terminologies. And they're just great at it. It's some better comedians that's just funny, but they don't know what they're really doing.
They've just been doing it for a long time. They've been on stage. They know an audience, but... Me, I am a student of this thing. I could teach you how to create a joke now. I know the ins and outs. I know what makes people laugh. And that will kind of separate comedians. You know what I'm saying? You could tell a comedian that's just goofy, just silly on stage and this and that.
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Chapter 4: What are the key differences between social media and stand-up comedy?
Yep. And another thing that I love about you and your sets, man, you are funny from beginning to end. There are a lot of, I'm going to say professional, famous comedians that, you know, they got a 30, 45 minute set. The first seven minutes are amazing. And then after that, it's like, that's all he got. That's all she got. You are literally from second one to,
And so when I have to pick my jaw up off the ground, you are that guy from literally beginning to end. And again, like, how do you do that? I know a lot of it is the studying, the formulating what you're going to do, but like, how did you get to that level of from minute one to minute 45, I'm tearing their mouth out.
Yeah, I mean, it's really a lot of stage time, man. Every comedian will tell you, man, like, I treat comedy like a sport. You know, I created a, like, two years ago, I created a thing called the Comedy Gym because I create, I teach, I treat it like a sport. Like, Steph Curry shoots thousands of shots a week, probably, like, He shoots a lot of shots a week.
So as a comedian, you have to do these open mics. You have to do stages. So during the week, man, I'm on a stage. Whether it's two people in the audience, five people, I find it's a comedy world where there's open mics and there's different rooms where you can go and work out material. And shoot, to be honest with you, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, they still pop up.
at these comedy clubs when you don't know and they'll pop up to work out material and so that's what I do like every set every joke I'm working it out I'm saying it over and over again saying it over and over again rearranging things okay I'm listening to an audience you know to see what they respond to and whether okay do I like that respond am I okay with that response or how do I respond to their response you know say how do I react to it
You know, comedy is a communication. A lot of comedians, they just want people to laugh. They just listen for laughs and that's it. But I listen for reaction. So, you know, it takes time. It takes shooting that shot. It takes keep shooting, keep working that joke. I'm going to go hit a stage tonight. Like I'm still working, still working.
And then you get into different audience because every audience ain't the same. So I've been in rooms where they were playing poker behind me, and the TVs are on. I'm talking about the NBA Finals is on, and they're playing poker, and we got people doing comedy in front of us. It's like you got to put yourself in different scenarios, white rooms, black rooms, Hispanic, like just –
to make sure your material is working and you dissect it and rearrange it. So that's how I can go from minute one to minute and 20 and keep your attention. And it ain't necessarily about being funny every second. You know, it's just, Dave Chappelle says it. It's not all about being funny, but being interesting. You know, if I can keep your attention... That's all that really matters. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
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Chapter 5: What lessons did Alton learn from stock trading?
Yeah.
I wouldn't have a fun with comedy. You know, I wouldn't, I didn't feel like I would angle. I felt like I was getting overlooked on a few opportunities, you know, couldn't find nobody to help me on that. Like I was just in that space and I just was like, you know what? Let me figure this out. Let me get back to the fun of it. And soon I started building, getting back to the fun and the purpose.
Like we've been talking about, that was one of the first videos that I did. It was like, oh, we just going to have fun, man. It wasn't even, what, a week and it had over a million views? Well, it's crazy because I posted the first time. It moved, but it didn't move. Yeah. What happened was Kendrick Lamar did his concert in LA. I said, you know what?
I'm going to drop it again because at the time I posted it, it was like, they not like us kind of. it was kind of dying down a little bit. It was still around, but him doing that concert made it come back up. So I dropped it again, and that's when it took off. Did we ever give the character a name? I know we gave him a name. I ain't even gave him a name yet, man.
Because I did a few other videos with him that went well, you know, because he's just an old school rapper that rap about old people. Like, what old people should rap about? You know what I'm saying? That's the whole idea. With the snappers. Man, sometimes, like, and I learned, like, with social media, man, I recently just did it.
I pulled a video from 2020, a Christmas video, and reposted it, and it went viral. The first time I posted it, it was like 100,000 views. I posted it again. It got over a million views.
Yeah, I tell people it's the same thing with books, right? Like you see a book come out and you think it's new and then you realize, oh, this book was written 20 years ago, but it's just recirculating because something happened, made it relevant. Or, you know, the social media team or the marketing team decided to push it.
Now, like it's always, I tell everybody, not that if you're trying to be an influencer, because to me that's hard, like you either are or you're not, like you don't try to be an influencer. But if you want to test your content, like test it. Like it's your content, right? Like you don't have to say, oh, I posted it once and now it has to sit there. Like,
Nah, if you believe in the material that you have and the things you created, like, it's yours. You own it. Like, you can post it every day if you want to, right? And I think that's where people make a mistake. It's like, oh, well, you know, I posted it once and nobody did anything. Nobody commented. I'm like, hey, part of that could be the algorithm.
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Chapter 6: How does Alton define his purpose in comedy?
Chapter 7: What is the relationship between happiness and fulfillment?
Yeah.
I wouldn't have a fun with comedy. You know, I wouldn't, I didn't feel like I would angle. I felt like I was getting overlooked on a few opportunities, you know, couldn't find nobody to help me on that. Like I was just in that space and I just was like, you know what? Let me figure this out. Let me get back to the fun of it. And soon I started building, getting back to the fun and the purpose.
Like we've been talking about, that was one of the first videos that I did. It was like, oh, we just going to have fun, man. It wasn't even, what, a week and it had over a million views? Well, it's crazy because I posted the first time. It moved, but it didn't move. Yeah. What happened was Kendrick Lamar did his concert in LA. I said, you know what?
I'm going to drop it again because at the time I posted it, it was like, they not like us kind of. it was kind of dying down a little bit. It was still around, but him doing that concert made it come back up. So I dropped it again, and that's when it took off. Did we ever give the character a name? I know we gave him a name. I ain't even gave him a name yet, man.
Because I did a few other videos with him that went well, you know, because he's just an old school rapper that rap about old people. Like, what old people should rap about? You know what I'm saying? That's the whole idea. With the snappers. Man, sometimes, like, and I learned, like, with social media, man, I recently just did it.
I pulled a video from 2020, a Christmas video, and reposted it, and it went viral. The first time I posted it, it was like 100,000 views. I posted it again. It got over a million views.
Yeah, I tell people it's the same thing with books, right? Like you see a book come out and you think it's new and then you realize, oh, this book was written 20 years ago, but it's just recirculating because something happened, made it relevant. Or, you know, the social media team or the marketing team decided to push it.
Now, like it's always, I tell everybody, not that if you're trying to be an influencer, because to me that's hard, like you either are or you're not, like you don't try to be an influencer. But if you want to test your content, like test it. Like it's your content, right? Like you don't have to say, oh, I posted it once and now it has to sit there. Like,
Nah, if you believe in the material that you have and the things you created, like, it's yours. You own it. Like, you can post it every day if you want to, right? And I think that's where people make a mistake. It's like, oh, well, you know, I posted it once and nobody did anything. Nobody commented. I'm like, hey, part of that could be the algorithm.
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