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Wallace first took an interest in comedy aged 17, when his mother encouraged him to join a six-week comedy class at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club. Despite his initial reluctance, Wallace "just fell in love with it" and would later remark that the class encouraged him to pursue a career as a professional comic: "once when I did stand-up, everything just clicked and I was like, this is what I was meant to do".[{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Nate |date=November 20, 2023 |title=TikTok star or respected stand-up? Trevor Wallace shows us it’s cool to be both |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-20/viral-skit-star-or-respected-stand-up-trevor-wallace-makes-it-cool-for-comics-to-be-both |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120183034/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-20/viral-skit-star-or-respected-stand-up-trevor-wallace-makes-it-cool-for-comics-to-be-both |archive-date=November 20, 2023 |access-date=March 20, 2026 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}] |
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Wallace first took an interest in comedy aged 17, when his mother encouraged him to join a six-week comedy class at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club. Despite his initial reluctance, Wallace "just fell in love with it" and would later remark that the class encouraged him to pursue a career as a professional comic: "once when I did stand-up, everything just clicked and I was like, this is what I was meant to do".[{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Nate |date=November 20, 2023 |title=TikTok star or respected stand-up? Trevor Wallace shows us it’s cool to be both |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-20/viral-skit-star-or-respected-stand-up-trevor-wallace-makes-it-cool-for-comics-to-be-both |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120183034/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-20/viral-skit-star-or-respected-stand-up-trevor-wallace-makes-it-cool-for-comics-to-be-both |archive-date=November 20, 2023 |access-date=March 20, 2026 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}] |
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Wallace's comedy career began with making short videos for the hosting platform [[Vine (service)|Vine]] while attending San Jose State University.[{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@tomboyd/making-viral-content-with-trevor-wallace-181665ee25b0 |title=Making viral content with Trevor Wallace |first1=Tom |last1=Boyd |website=Boyder |via=[[Medium (website)|Medium]] |date=November 28, 2017}}] He also created a comedy video about [[AirPods]] that was widely viewed.[{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-airpods-make-you-look-rich-these-millennials-think-so-11550591284 |title=Do AirPods Make You Look Rich? These Millennials Think So |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |first1=Jacob |last1=Gallagher |date=February 19, 2019 |access-date=July 7, 2019}}] Wallace's May 2019 video about men named Kyle has furthered its appearance in [[meme]]s relating the name to "angry, Monster Energy-chugging white boys".[{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/kyle-memes-viral/?tw=dd| title=How 'Kyle' became synonymous with angry, Monster Energy-chugging white boys| website=The Daily Dot| first=Stacey| last=Ritzen|date=July 16, 2019| access-date=July 30, 2019}}] In July 2019, Wallace released a viral video satirizing drinkers of [[White Claw Hard Seltzer]], along with a line of t-shirts that read "Ain't No Laws When You're Drinking Claws"; the beverage company responded with a [[cease and desist]] order.[{{cite web |url=https://vinepair.com/booze-news/trevor-wallace-white-claw-truly/ |title=Viral 'Ain't No Laws When You're Drinking Claws' T-Shirt Blocked By White Claw Legal |author=Lalomia, Felicia |work=VinePair |date=July 11, 2019 |accessdate=July 26, 2019}}] |
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Wallace's comedy career began with making short videos for the hosting platform [[Vine (service)|Vine]] while attending San Jose State University.[{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@tomboyd/making-viral-content-with-trevor-wallace-181665ee25b0 |title=Making viral content with Trevor Wallace |first1=Tom |last1=Boyd |website=Boyder |via=[[Medium (website)|Medium]] |date=November 28, 2017}}] He also created a comedy video about [[AirPods]] that was widely viewed.[{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-airpods-make-you-look-rich-these-millennials-think-so-11550591284 |title=Do AirPods Make You Look Rich? These Millennials Think So |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |first1=Jacob |last1=Gallagher |date=February 19, 2019 |access-date=July 7, 2019}}] Wallace's May 2019 video about men named Kyle has furthered its appearance in [[meme]]s relating the name to "angry, Monster Energy-chugging white boys".[{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/kyle-memes-viral/?tw=dd| title=How 'Kyle' became synonymous with angry, Monster Energy-chugging white boys| website=The Daily Dot| first=Stacey| last=Ritzen|date=July 16, 2019| access-date=July 30, 2019}}] In July 2019, Wallace released a viral video satirizing drinkers of [[White Claw Hard Seltzer]], along with a line of t-shirts that read "Ain't No Laws When You're Drinking Claws"; the beverage company responded with a [[cease and desist]] order.[{{cite web |url=https://vinepair.com/booze-news/trevor-wallace-white-claw-truly/ |title=Viral 'Ain't No Laws When You're Drinking Claws' T-Shirt Blocked By White Claw Legal |author=Lalomia, Felicia |work=VinePair |date=July 11, 2019 |accessdate=July 26, 2019}}] |
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