“And so with my current show, with Blake and everything, I incorporate those rules a lot because I love the payoff. “Improv gives you the ability to go with whatever happens,” Georgeson said. After graduating, he began working in marketing and social media by day while spending his nights honing his stand-up skills onstage.Īfter struggling to score laughs with senior citizens in Boca Raton, he moved to California in 2013 and spent six years working with the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) Theatre in L.A. While attending Florida State University, he worked at a comedy club, solidifying his dreams of making it in comedy while earning a degree in writing and media.

He describes his early stand-up as “terrible,” but found that his knack for impressions and funny voices got laughs, so he decided to follow the path of comedy. He grew up all over – including spending a couple summers and Christmases here in Michigan with his dad – and first got up onstage while in high school in Florida. Georgeson himself was introduced to stand-up comedy at a young age. “And it’s interesting to see people who get it and who are totally on board and are like, ‘Wow, this is hilarious.’ And then there are people who are like, ‘Is this guy for real? Is this a real thing?’ So it’s always toeing that line of what’s believable and what’s ridiculous.” “I’ve always tried to tread the line of what’s believable and what’s absolutely ridiculous,” Georgeson told Revue. Mocking vape culture and social media fame alike, Georgeson began developing Blake online as something of a prank experiment. The character creation of Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian Aristotle Georgeson, Blake Vapes came to life as an over-the-top alter-ego when he was smoking weed with some fellow comics. Quickly attracting attention, he became the subject of a 2015 Buzzfeed video that racked up well over 1 million views, while notoriously becoming the most disliked clip on the site. Then known as Blake Vapes, his early posts included a “documentary” where he boasts about his vaping skills and lifestyle, frequently blowing plumes from his e-cigarette while espousing his equally lofty mantras in a voice somewhere between South Park’s Eric Cartman and your average frat bro.

Seemingly born on the Internet just over five years ago, the self-proclaimed “vape god” emerged out of a cloud of smoke on Instagram.

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