Bret Raybould is comedian, writer, and actor based in New York City.
In 2020, he released his debut hour stand up special entitled “Bret Raybould Retires From Comedy,” in which he did in fact retire from stand up comedy. The album version of this special went #1 on iTunes, and got its worldwide debut on SiriusXM’s comedy channels.
Why did he retire? Well, you can watch the special (available for free on his YouTube channel) or you can keep reading this bio.
Ya see, deep in his heart, he harbored a secret: he wanted to be a singer.
So, one day, he crafted the defining record of the 2000s: Bret On Bublé, a jazz masterpiece that covers the career-spanning journey of another fantastic - though lesser - jazz impresario, Michael Bublé.
“This was both a tribute and a challenge to the Great Bublé,” Bret says. “It was my way of saying ‘I respect what you’ve built, but I’m coming for your throne.”
Unfortunately, Bret had severely miscalculated his finances, and had to come out of his comedy retirement one month later to pay the bills.
Bret is also the World’s First Publicly-Traded Comedian. That’s right. Bret launched BretTrade.com, a trading platform where people would be allowed to buy/sell shares of BretCoin. To start, he went to market with an IBO - Initial Bret Offering - of 100,000 shares valued at 50 cents per share, giving him a market cap of $50,000. If you want to invest in comedy’s favorite son/jazz’s heartbreak king, you can buy BretCoin at BretTrade.com.
