When he was young, Curtis Weaver had to earn attention.
His mother’s side of the family is Filipino, and friends and relatives would often congregate to play games or have dinner in his hometown of Long Beach, Calif. There was a cousin his age, but most other kids were toddlers.
So they’d hang around the grown-ups, and that’s when Weaver took center stage.
“I’d be 10 or 12 years old, trying to make people that were adults laugh, and it kind of came naturally. I kept it going as I got older,” Weaver said.