Resident Alien's Alan Tudyk Used to do Stand-Up Comedy, Until He Got Death Threats

If you're an aspiring comedian and you get offered a gig to perform at the Holiday Inn in Jacksonville, Texas, run far away. Very far away.

That wasa data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/people/alan-tudyk" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/people/alan-tudyk" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/people/alan-tudyk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Alan Tudyk/a's general word of advice during a recent interview a data-entity-href="https://www.avclub.com/alan-tudyk-used-to-do-stand-up-comedy-until-he-got-a-de-1851326800" data-entity-title="https://www.avclub.com/alan-tudyk-used-to-do-stand-up-comedy-until-he-got-a-de-1851326800" href="https://www.avclub.com/alan-tudyk-used-to-do-stand-up-comedy-until-he-got-a-de-1851326800" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"with emThe A.V. Club/em/a, in which the always hilarious star ofa data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/resident-alien" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/resident-alien" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/resident-alien" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emResident Alien/em/a(currently in its third season onstronga href="https://www.syfy.com/resident-alien/watch"SYFY/a/strong) recalled the moment he swore off stand-up comedy forever./p h2Why Doesn'temResident Alien/em's Alan Tudyk Do Stand-Up Comedy Anymore?/h2 p"My very brief stint involved me doing 30-minute stand-up sets at the Holiday Inn in Jacksonville, Texas ... It was scary," said the actor, who originally hails from the Lone Star State (El Paso, to be exact). "A guy threatened to kill me while I was onstage in the middle of my set. [That] was the last time I did it because I was like, 'Not doing that again. Nope. Never' ... Anyway, I did improv after that."/p pWhile he didn't go into detail on why the audience member suddenly turned homicidal, Tudyk did reveal that his now-retired act involved some kind of musical element. "I used a keyboard because I'd do a song. I always had a song portion."/p pstrongFor More on emResident Alien/em:/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-syfy-alan-tudyk-behind-the-scenes-video" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-syfy-alan-tudyk-behind-the-scenes-video" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-syfy-alan-tudyk-behind-the-scenes-video" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Watch: Alan Tudyk Takes Resident Alien Fans Behind the Scenes of SYFY’s Hit Show/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/alan-tudyk-on-harrys-new-resident-alien-love-interest-edi-pattersons-blue-avian" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/alan-tudyk-on-harrys-new-resident-alien-love-interest-edi-pattersons-blue-avian" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/alan-tudyk-on-harrys-new-resident-alien-love-interest-edi-pattersons-blue-avian" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Alan Tudyk Coos About Harry's New Resident Alien Love Interest, Edi Patterson's Blue Avian/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-star-linda-hamilton-heaps-praise-on-showrunner-and-alan-tudyk" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-star-linda-hamilton-heaps-praise-on-showrunner-and-alan-tudyk" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/resident-alien-star-linda-hamilton-heaps-praise-on-showrunner-and-alan-tudyk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Linda Hamilton on Her Resident Alien Role: "I'm Not the Funny Girl, I'm the Straight Man"/a/strong/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="3b945851-6854-42e9-b0df-d03cb0b46b09" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/nup_201045_02097.jpg" width="862" height="575" alt="Harry Vanderspeigle creeps next to a fire alarm in Resident Alien Episode 305." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Harry Vanderspeigle (Alan Tudyk) appears in Resident Alien Season 3 Episode 5 "Lovebird". /span span class="media__credit"Photo: James Dittiger/SYFY /span /div /div /div /div pCompared to fielding a death threat from an angry Texan, nabbing the role of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle on emResident Alien/em proved to be a veritable cakewalk. "It was just an audition," Tudyk remembered. "'Hey, read this. Do you like it? Great, go in.' I went in and I was the 116th person to audition for the role. So, it's nice to [know] I was high on that casting director's list of who to call. But they cast me that day."/p pAs for whom he'd like to see guest star on the hit strongSYFY /strongseries, the answer is easy: "Sir Anthony Hopkins." Maybe the Oscar-winner could play Harry's dad? Just throwing it out there for ya, a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/chris-sheridan" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/chris-sheridan" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/chris-sheridan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Chris Sheridan/a./p p/p h2How to Watch strongSYFY/strong'semResident Alien/emTV Show/h2 pemResident Alien/emis currently in the midst of its third season, with new episodes airing Wednesdays at 10/9c onstronga href="https://www.syfy.com/resident-alien/watch"SYFY/a/strong, and streaming next day ona href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/resident-alien/7067427714335486112?cid=2301libgennbenownedi6757utm_campaign=2301libgenutm_source=syfy_syfy_st-svutm_medium=own_edi_awa_artblutm_term=syfyviewersutm_content=residentalien"Peacock/a./p pThe first two seasons ofemResident Alien/emcan be founda data-entity-href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/resident-alien/7067427714335486112" data-entity-title="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/resident-alien/7067427714335486112" href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/resident-alien/7067427714335486112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"on Peacock/aas well.The NBCUniversal platform currently offersa href="https://www.peacocktv.com/plans/all-monthly" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"two monthly subscription plans/a: Premium ($5.99 a month with ads) and Premium Plus ($11.99 a month with no ads and download access for certain titles).If you're a student, you can enjoy the Premium plana href="https://www.peacocktv.com/student?cid=2301evgpkpdsearch13071amp;utm_campaign=2301evgamp;utm_source=pk_ggl_gglsaamp;utm_medium=pd_search_br_srcpyamp;utm_term=142554_d60128damp;utm_content=142554_d60128d_142554_d60128damp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwgNanBhDUARIsAAeIcAsNlgrSv5UlQljBwTT8gfeH2aiIMh_yj7nCugFLx2dgX7ZoluIHoTsaAhBjEALw_wcBamp;gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"for just $1.99/afor an entire year!/p pemstrongLooking for even more SYFY Originals?a data-entity-href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/chucky/7737673447939104112" data-entity-title="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/chucky/7737673447939104112" href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/chucky/7737673447939104112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Chucky/a,a data-entity-href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/face-off/5187152827644028112" data-entity-title="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/face-off/5187152827644028112" href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/face-off/5187152827644028112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Face Off/a, anda data-entity-href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/paranormal-witness/8148893938321773112" data-entity-title="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/paranormal-witness/8148893938321773112" href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/tv/paranormal-witness/8148893938321773112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Paranormal Witness/aare also streaming on Peacock./strong/em/p