Dr. Tiffany Moonis exploring a new potential career path that doesn’t involve medicine or reality television, but rather as a comedian.
“It came to me,“TheReal Housewives of Dallasstar tells PEOPLE after a recent show at The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, California, where she co-headlined alongside several other comics. “I did not seek it out.”
But due in part to her friendship withRHODOG,D’Andra Simmons, Moon had a change of heart.
“D’Andra was on it. Mama D was on and I knew them. We hung out,” she explains. “I went to their parties and they were like, ‘You should be on. You’re funny, you have charisma, you can dish it back.’ And then that happened.”
Currently,RHOD’s future on Bravo is unclear. In August, the network confirmed there wereno plans for the show to return for a sixth season next year, but said “nothing official has been decided” in regards to the possibility of future seasons premiering at a later date.
With the show on pause, Moon’s comedy career came at just the right time. And much like her journey toRHOD, it was her friends in the industry who saw something in her that made them feel she had a knack for comedy.
“People were like, ‘Oh, you’re funny. You should try to do stand-up,'” Moon recalls. “And [comedian]Jiaoying [Summers]is responsible for all of this because she’s a professional. We were shooting a Netflix special and she was like, ‘Open for me [and] do a 10-minute set. I think you’re funny.'”
“I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can do that,'” she continues. “I guess what I’m saying is that people see something in me and then they give me the opportunity to try it. For that, I’m grateful.”
Tiffany Moon with her twin daughters, Chloe and Madison.Tiffany Moon/Instagram
Even though she got used to having cameras around 24/7 from her Bravo days, Moon admits that getting up on stage to do stand-up is quite nerve-wracking.
“Everything in life is always harder than it looks, right?” she explains. “You watch a gymnast, you watch a figure skater. You watch a stand-up comedian and it’s always like, you enjoy the performance as an audience member, but then when you try to do it, you’re like, ‘It’s hard!'”
So hard, in fact, that Moon had to rehearse her set with her inner circle multiple times — and for several hours — to make sure she got it right.
“This seven, eight-minute set that I did in totality from writing jokes, practicing with my husband, practicing with my assistant, calling [my publicist] JT, probably took 50 hours in totality,” she jokes, adding that it was also written on the airplane that day while she was flying to Los Angeles.
Tiffany Moon.Tiffany Moon/Instagram
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While she’s been enjoying her time in the comedy world, don’t think Moon will be canceling renewal on her medical license anytime soon.
“I never wanted to be a multi-season Housewife [and I don’t think that I’m going to be the next Margaret Cho or Alli Wong and have a Netflix special,” she says.
“[It’s] my side project,” Moon adds of her comedic plans.
source: people.com
