When comedian Whitmer Thomas began writing his new stand-up special, The Golden One, he Googled the precise age at which youth is considered to be over.
He read that it was widely believed to be 29. Thomas, 29 at the time, freaked out. “I worried that I hadn’t achieved the things I wanted to as a young man,” he says now from his home in Los Angeles. “When I think of being successful and rich I’m doing it as a 21-year-old dumb idiot.” Thomas had added reason for an existential crisis.
He'd been dropped by his booking agent after deciding to incorporate music into his act, and his career was plateauing. He had started writing songs as a way to deliver material that focused heavily on a troubled childhood in Alabama that was overshadowed by
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