Everyone has a great story to tell! On Do Tell! with Laugh After Dark, host Charlie Wilson gets stand-up comedians to share their stories from the stage and beyond, but the open-door policy (and convenient Vegas location), means that you never know who might drop in to tell their tale! Stories range from performing with the legends that inspired careers to the extreme, typically bizarre, and generally hilarious lengths people will go to for a chance to make it big in the city of broken dreams. Produced by Laugh After Dark & CSLA Podcasting, new podcast episodes are released every week on YouTube and all podcasting platforms.
In this week’s episode, Wilson is joined by comedian Alex “KoolAid” Ansel. The Texas native discusses his career in comedy and how he came up with the name KOOLAID.
Ansel, a lifelong clown, was born in Texas, just to spend the first ten years of his life in Germany. Afterwards, he spent his adolescence in various air conditioned buildings perfecting his videogame high scores. As a Nerd of Texas-size proportions, he was christened with the Nickname ‘KOOLAID’ in Middle School. Figuring there were worse nicknames to get, he stuck with it ever since. He’s a Fat guy from a Hispanic City, that dresses like rapper, has two Dads that are married…to each other, and has family in the Military. It is all these experiences that Alex, aka KOOLAID, draws from. As a result, they helped him win his first Comedy Competition with the Title “Funniest Person in South Texas”. Notably, he is the youngest comedian to have won the Title. Alex has appeared on CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates in his hometown of San Antonio. In addition, Alex even performed at the Boston Comedy Festival, and Won RAWartists “Performer of the Year” in San Antonio. Not to mention, he was recently handpicked to open on tour with WWE Hall of Fame Pro Wrestler, Jake “The Snake” Roberts for The “Unspoken Word Tour”. In conclusion, Alex hoped to live up to his namesake of KOOLAID by putting smiles on faces and getting people to say “Oh Yeah”.
