Dejen (Pronounced Cajun with a D) Tesfagiorgis (@Dejen45) is a super cool comedian, comedy sketch writer, jazz saxophonist, and former entrepreneur from New York, New York. He runs the Deja Deja Comedy YouTube channel, featuring sketches on Black music, tech companies, and code switching. Their video Niggardly: Free Workplace Codeswitching app for Black Employees, has garnered over 600,000 views since November 17th, 2020.

In this episode we discuss life lessons from improv classes, standup comedy vs internet comedy, Dejen’s foray into tech entrepreneurship, his comedy writing process, the benefits of a sense of humor, a healthy disagreement about political correctness, and much more. Stick around to the very end for a special freestyle rap about Fyodor Dostoevsky. And as always, please enjoy!

(Sorry about the dogs barking in the background)

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Dejen’s comedy YouTube channel

Dejen on Instagram (also funny)

Dejen on TikTok (also funny)

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