Interview · moment 9 of 19
Working with the Mentally Disabled Before Comedy
from Bully Queen (With Robert Kelly) · #22
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5 minGuest
Bobby recounts his last job before comedy, living in and working at a group home for elderly mentally challenged men, riding motorcycles to the beach with a Down syndrome friend named Barry, and a knife incident he handled himself.
- 22:52Tim's last job before comedy was working with mentally challenged people in a group home in Boston.
- 23:10He worked 11 p.m. to 8 a.m., five nights a week, with high-functioning elderly men with intellectual disabilities.
- 23:25He took the job for housing and food money after getting kicked out by his foster father Ken Laz.
- 23:56Tim became genuine friends with the residents, including Barry, a 55-year-old man with Down syndrome who he'd take on his motorcycle to the beach.
- 24:28He worked there for three years while also delivering flowers on Sundays and working two nights a week at a juvenile detention facility—the same facility where he'd been incarcerated.
- 26:35One time Tim found two residents fighting with a knife and grabbed a larger knife to intervene, which scared the resident into backing down.
- 27:20The six guys in the home were among the nicest people he's ever met, though he regrets not staying in touch with them.
- 27:36The residents were genuinely happy to wake up and go to work at Pizza Hut, teaching Tim a lesson about contentment with simple employment.