Whenever you hear the identify Kermet Apio, you in all probability consider somebody who would both by no means stand up in entrance of an viewers — or somebody who was destined to be a comic. Properly, Apio is an actual particular person and by chance for the Honolulu-born and raised comedian, folks assume he’s actually humorous.

After graduating from ʻIolani Faculty within the 1980s, he attended faculty in Seattle. In 1989, he did his first open mic on the Comedy Underground. A 12 months later, he give up his job in well being care and took the leap to performing full time. He hasn’t seemed again since. The Dialog sat down with him forward of his present at Blue Be aware Hawaii in Waikīkī on Monday, Aug. 15.

This interview aired on The Dialog on Aug. 12, 2022. The Dialog airs weekdays at 11 a.m. on HPR-1.