{"id":599371,"date":"2021-07-21T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599371"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:21:24","slug":"anti-woke-comedian-j-p-sears-scores-massive-success-without-the-hollywood-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-woke-comedian-j-p-sears-scores-massive-success-without-the-hollywood-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Woke Comedian J.P. Sears Scores Massive Success Without The Hollywood Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-woke-comedian-j-p-sears-scores-massive-success-without-the-hollywood-machine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JP-approved-headshot-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Once upon a time, comedy stardom meant years in the grungy trenches of the club circuit before signing on with a team of agents and managers to carefully craft a polite progressive image for major studio appeal. But conservative comedian J.P. Sears says those days are over, and there\u2019s no longer any reason for aspiring funny-men and women to sign their lives away to the left-wing Hollywood machine.<\/p>\n<p>Sears, who has nearly two million subscribers to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwUizOU8pPWXdXNniXypQEQ\">YouTube channel<\/a>, has struck a nerve with a public weary of virtue signaling and woke politicking. One of his parody skits from a few years ago, \u201cIf Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans,\u201d has racked up more than 14 million views. Another posted last week, mocking the Biden administration\u2019s door-to-door campaign to promote the Covid-19 vaccine, scored a million in mere days.<\/p>\n<p>Sears says that\u2019s because the public is hungry for messages of freedom that also provide the pressure valve release of laughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople love to be a part of the freedom movement,\u201d he tells the Daily Wire in an exclusive interview. \u201cThey love to have someone voice what everyone is thinking but not saying. They want to hear others calling out corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there was a time Sears might have called himself a political independent, these days, his commitment to liberty has firmly aligned him with the conservative side of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now,\u201d he says, \u201cthe significant political corruption seems to be coming from the Left, and the Left has been radicalized in just a very communist direction. Freedom is my number one personal value. And right now, the Right is pro freedom. The Left is anti freedom. It\u2019s very simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That commitment to freedom is what ultimately led Sears to shift his professional focus from health and wellness to comedy.<\/p>\n<p>He began his career as a straightforward life coach, and you\u2019ll still find the red-head offering plenty of heartfelt advice on his channel, albeit tucked in amongst sketches where he pokes fun at his own long-haired hippie style. In fact, it was an experiment making fun of his personal interests with a video titled \u201cHow to Be Ultra Spiritual,\u201d that led to a major shift in his career path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always had a strong sense of humor,\u201d he explains, \u201cBut I wasn\u2019t letting my true comedic self out in the professional realm because I thought it would discredit me. I thought I was supposed to be serious.\u201d When he took a risk with humor, however, he found it instantly resonated with his audience. \u201cOnce I walked through that door, there was momentum that I started surfing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he says, he\u2019s just been \u201cForest Gump\u2019ing\u201d his way along, making as many parody sketches as he can. And like the beloved character, he\u2019s covered a lot of miles. Check the \u201cevents\u201d page on Sears\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/awakenwithjp.com\/pages\/events\">website<\/a> and you\u2019ll find a host of tour dates and headlining speaking engagements. He believes that the climate of fear and speech suppression currently dominating the traditional American entertainment industry has created a hole in the market that has allowed comics like him, who are willing to step out in courage, to benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt heart, one of the most important things about good comedy is truth,\u201d he says. \u201cIf there\u2019s no truth embedded in the joke, the sketch is not gonna land with people because there\u2019s nothing to connect them. So you connect with the audience in comedy via the relatability of truth. But right now, there\u2019s way more demand than there is supply for truth-telling comedians. In a way, it\u2019s a great time to be a truth-telling comedian because the competition\u2019s so low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there aren\u2019t nearly as many influences to draw on these days when it comes to authenticity and honesty in stand-up, Sears says he is inspired by acts like Dave Chappelle, who he calls a major influence on his work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is probably the person in the world who is most untouchable to cancel culture,\u201d Sears says of the \u201cSticks and Stones\u201d stand-up. \u201cAnd therefore, he\u2019s not afraid to lose anything because he doesn\u2019t have anything they can take away because Dave Chappelle is bigger than cancel culture. He\u2019ll go into identity politics, speaking His truth. And he seems very unafraid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Chappelle, Sears looks to classic comics like Bill Hicks and George Carlin as examples of how to do comedy with integrity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHicks had a purpose. He called out corruption. And he was truly helping wake people up,\u201d Sears shares. Of Carlin he points out how his famous \u201cSeven Dirty Words You Can\u2019t Say on Television\u201d bit didn\u2019t just make audiences laugh, it made them think.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on acts like that and the impact they have had on the culture is what keeps Sears from worrying about the opportunities he may be missing as a result of his openly conservative views. He argues that any gigs he might lose out on aren\u2019t opportunities he would welcome anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know,\u201d he says, \u201cIf Hollywood came knocking on my door, I would say no. Because our values aren\u2019t aligned, I\u2019m not out to be a part of woke propaganda, trying to convince people that the stuff they\u2019re peddling is helpful for you when ultimately I think its destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, he feels the new paradigm of connecting with an audience individually offers both more autonomy and greater job security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the old model of making it in entertainment was a very disempowering model,\u201d he says. \u201cYou needed someone else with more control than you to discover you and then give you opportunities and ultimately give you money and success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No more, Spears contends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m someone who created their own audience based on material that their minds and hearts are inspired to share. That\u2019s very hard to take away,\u201d he argues. \u201cWe live in this world now where you don\u2019t need a middleman to give you opportunities. You don\u2019t need a middleman to give you money. In fact, saying yes to those old world opportunities is oftentimes a step down in success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Megan Basham is anEntertainment Reporter for The Daily Wire and an approved Rotten Tomatoes Critic. You can follow her on Twitter @megbasham.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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