![]() Together with fellow comics Costel Bojog and Viorel Dragu, he became an overnight sensation when, in 2006, he published some of their routines on YouTube. He described his first gig on stage as unpleasant, his lack of experience being noticeable, but his enthusiasm won fellow stand-up comedian Mihai Bobonete's trust, and he was asked to come back for a few weeks before being invited to join the club's official roster as a featured performer. Prior to this experience, his only encounters with stand-up comedy had been Seinfeld and Robin Williams' Live on Broadway special, which he had seen at a friend's house and described his experience as transformative, in light of Williams' performance. His first public performance took place in early 2004 in Deko Café, a local comedy club in Bucharest, during an open mic night. Teo started considering doing stand-up in 2003, while working in retail. He has stated in interviews that he found it to be a waste of his time and regrets the time spent there. After graduating he attended the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies where he studied business management. ![]() He has said that competitive debating had a great influence on the way he came to approach writing and stand-up later in his life. While attending highschool, he played in a rock band, wrote articles for the school newspaper, and traveled Europe with the George Coșbuc Highschool debate team. The grandson of an airline pilot who occasionally flew Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu's official plane, he grew up in the Bucharest neighborhood of Titan. ![]()
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