Dusty Slay
Dusty Slay
You can take the boy out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the boy… stand-up comedian Dusty Slay grew up on Lot 8 of a mobile home neighborhood in Opelika, Alabama, with a love for both classic country and rock and a career history peppered with jobs like waiting tables and selling pesticides. Now the Alabama native with the “We’re havin’ a Good Time” attitude is hitting cities all across the country playing comedy clubs and selling out theaters filled with fans eager to imitate his signature Wave. The trucker hat, long hair and mustache, flannel shirt and oversized glasses aren’t affectations to cultivate a stage persona as the B-side of a 1970s Bob Seger track—it’s just Dusty.
The breakout comedian hit the mainstream featuring as one of six comics in season 3 of Netflix’s The Stand Ups, highlighting new comedians at the top of their game. Previous appearances on Comedy Central, as a guest panelist on Lights Out with David Spade and Stand-Up Featuring as well as 3 unforgettable late night sets on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon have helped established Dusty as a crowd favorite and bonafide star on the silver screen. In 2019 he joined Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in 2019 and has previously performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Comic Standing, and Laughs on Fox in addition to regular stints on “The Bob & Tom Radio Show” as well as the nationally syndicated “The Bobby Bones Show”.
At age 36, Slay became the youngest comedian to ever perform on the legendary Grand Ole Opry stage in his adopted hometown of Nashville. To date he’s logged dozens of appearances in front of “his people” on the historic stage in the last few years fully imbedding himself in the country music scene and having been asked to host some of the biggest events across the subculture, including Hangover Fest at the ACMs in Las Vegas in 2022 and CMA Fest’s Forever Country Stage with the likes of Scotty McCreery, Dustin Lynch, Lainey Wilson and some of the most iconic names in the genre.