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A Little Bad Luck Won’t Stop Bret Ernst By Gary Wien SHARE BUTTON Growing up in New Jersey, comedian Bret Ernst moved around an awful lot as a kid. He estimates he attended about 15 different schools before moving to Florida for high school. As anyone who was ever the new kid knows, it can be a little rough; but, it also helped him find his calling. “When you’re the new kid, you use your sense of humor to meet people,” explained Ernst. “And New Jersey Stage when you’re standing in front of the classroom that much, you sort of get used to that feeling of being uncomfortable.” Ernst admits to regularly being the class clown and a trouble maker in school. He played sports all of his life (even going on to play football in college and try out for an arena football team once) and says he was that guy in the l ocker room cracking jokes. He always October 2014 pg 58