There are some aspects of comedy you just can’t teach. But for comedian Chinedu Unaka, plenty was learned while giving lessons in a classroom. As a kid growing up in South L.A., it wasn’t planned that he would find his way to comedy by stepping up to the chalkboard to teach mild to moderate special education students how to do algebra. But looking back on it, he says, there was really no better training ground for practicing the basics of his future craft — keeping eye contact, learning crowd work, making entertainment out of boring subjects.

For over a decade, his passion-driven work that he fell into in college at UC Santa Barabara would become the day job that both funded his dream and gave him the tools to achieve it as he held the attention of kids with ADHD while making them learn w

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