Alex Stone's Stand-up Comedian Profile on Rooftop Comedy

2009 National College Comedy Competition

Alex Stone is a Cincinnati comedian who performs at GoBananas Comedy Club. Stone gains momentum from the crowd off the disclosure that he grew up in a ghetto. "I’m serious!" Stone says. "White people have ghettos, too, y’know. They’re called trailer parks." Stone adds: "You know you live in a bad neighborhood when you see a pair of underwear lying on the side of the street."

The baby-faced comedian has a knack for absurd humor. Even when he’s offstage, he continues to make with the funny. "Being a comedian is like nothing else," he says. "There’s no entrance exam or anything. It’s like being a pirate: You just do it." Stone studies business management at Appalachian State University. He says that his father plans for him to run their family’s surveying company. "Right now, I’m trying to pursue (comedy) and see how it will go," he said. "My father doesn’t know I’m doing this. "He’d probably tell me to stop goofing off if he knew about the stand-up."