{"id":18716,"date":"2013-02-04T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2013-02-04T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:26:56","slug":"wright-state-student-turns-to-comedy-for-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/02\/04\/wright-state-student-turns-to-comedy-for-his-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State student turns to comedy for his future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>Wright State\u00a0senior Adrian Cosby said that he always loved to make people laugh. Now he is trying to take it to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>For the past two years Cosby has been active in\u00a0stand up comedy, performing at venues such as Wiley\u2019s and The Funnybone. He said that his experience at Wright State was highly\u00a0influential to his\u00a0decision\u00a0to try stand-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the biggest thing that got me into stand up was my communications classes at Wright State,\u201d Cosby said. \u201cI\u2019d like to be a communications professor if comedy\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0work out. I\u2019d have a captive audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cosby is 37 years old and resides in Yellow Springs. He said that his last name and hometown made him hesitant to try stand up, since he shares the last name of Bill Cosby and lives in the same town\u00a0as Dave Chappelle. He said he is still not sure whether or not he will get a \u201creal job\u201d or take his comedy on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardianonline.com\/wright-life\/2013\/02\/02\/student-turns-to-comedy-for-his-future\/\">TheGuardianOnline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) Wright State\u00a0senior Adrian Cosby said that he always loved to make people laugh. Now he is trying to take it to the next level. For the past two years Cosby has been active in\u00a0stand up comedy, performing at venues &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/02\/04\/wright-state-student-turns-to-comedy-for-his-future\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18717,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions\/18717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}