Jesus, voice-over: What was your standup initially?

Were you observational?

Were you talking about your upbringing?

Like, what premises were you tackling early on?

Vanessa: My mom.

All she does is send religious memes.

I'll be like, "Mom, how was your day?"

And she sends me, like, a bloody Jesus.

Vanessa, voice-over: My mom and my grandma were the first ones to show me how to be funny.

They always made fun of themselves.

They always made fun of other people.

Vanessa: We're going to Laredo tomorrow.

[Cheering and applause] I'm taking a whole PBS crew with me to meet my parents.

[Cheering and applause] My mom's so nervous.

She FaceTimed me yesterday.

She's like, "I cleaned the house.

Look."

All of the photos of my brothers, she took down... [Laughter] and there's just photos of me, and I'm like, "You don't even like me."

Thank you so much, Austin.

[Cheering and applause] Jesus: I've never experienced doing a homecoming show just because I'm in the scene where I grew up, and that's something I've always been curious about.

Everyone is gonna be there that knows you.

They're looking to you as their North Star.

That definitely comes with a certain kind of pressure.

Do you feel any pressure at all going back?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

Absolutely.

I'm like, "What jokes do I say, or is this too much?"

-I don't know--I know.

-"Ooh!"

They're gonna be like, "Ooh!"

So I've always been nervous, but I feel like if anybody is gonna get my jokes, it's gonna be... Jesus: It's your hometown.

Vanessa: my hometown, the people that also live the same thing I live.

On the border and that want to be seen in a different way than just the immigrant sad, tragic stories that we see all the time, and I feel like it's in our culture to laugh at ourselves.