Comedian Reese Waters Blazes New Career Path on ‘The Daily Line’

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Ever think of starting a new career that mixes your talents and skills with the love of your hobby? African American comedian Reese Waters has been able to do just that through an amazing new gig as the resident comic and host on a new show called ‘The Daily Line.’ Through this show, featured on the Versus Network, Reese is able to blend his career path of comedy with his love of sports, bringing TV audiences the best of both worlds. Reese took some time to talk to Black Voices about how this unique job opportunity developed, and give us his best advice about making it in the entertainment world. Plus — get his hilarious top five predictions for the rest of 2010!

How did you start your career in comedy? Who are some of your comedic heroes?
I started my career in comedy when I was in college. So I was here at Columbia, and I got a notice about them needing people to try out for the television station. I actually always wanted to an actor when I was growing up. I say actor like I was into it for creative reasons — I wanted to be a movie star, let me just put it that way. That’s more accurate. But I figured it was too late for me, even though I was like 17. You know, “It’s too late for me. Kids have been acting since they were four, and I can’t catch up now.” I was like, “All right, at least you can be behind the scenes.” So I went down to that station to be some kind of producer or director behind the scenes. They were having an audition for a sketch comedy show. And the people were so God awful. I mean embarrassing. I was sitting there thinking, “You know what, I could be this bad