In the summer of 2015, Wyatt Cenac became famous for the wrong reason.

On the podcast of stand-up comic Mark Maron, the former “The Daily Show” writer and performer revealed that he’d once gotten into a shouting match with host Jon Stewart over possible racist undertones in several sketches.

It is not known how many times Stewart has gotten into shouting matches with people who generally share his political views. It may have been just the once.

At any rate, Cenac – who will perform in the Tiger Room of Calhoun Street Soups, Salads and Spirits (aka CS3) on Nov. 1 – suddenly found himself at the center of one of those trumped-up Facebook-fueled and Twitter-fired controversies that “The Daily Show” delights in mocking.

“I guess because I’d spent four and a half years working with Jon dissecting the media’s sort of hunger for sensation over actual reportage,” he said in a phone interview, “… I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised about how this got chewed up and (expletive) out.”

Most people declined, of course, to listen to the entire interview to gain context and the assumption was that Cenac and Stewart were still feuding.

“I mean, I think during that interview I kind of said that he and I had spoken,” he said. “We had been emailing up until his final show. One of things I said in the interview was that he and I had been talking, which was nice… it kind of opened a dialogue; a better dialogue.”

In conversation, the soft-spoken Cenac doesn’t sound like someone who would seek out a shouting match with anybody.

Cenac, who lives in Brooklyn but grew up in Texas, said he loves the performing aspect of touring but not the travel.

“Admittedly, I’m a homebody,” he said. “Being on the road definitely takes it out of me…

“It’s tough,” Cenac said. “Especially when you don’t know anybody in a city. You wind up with whole days to kill. You can read a book or wander around. The two places I usually wind up in are museums and record shops…”

Luckily, there’s a great example of the latter just down the road from CS3.

Before he started working on “The Daily Show,” Cenac was a staff writer on a very different but equally significant series: “King of the Hill.”

Cenac was nervous his first day on the job.

The creative staff watched a rough cut of an episode called “New Cowboy on the Block,” about what happens when a former Dallas Cowboys player moves into Hank Hill’s neighborhood, and Cenac was able to tell everybody that the same thing had actually happened to him.

“He was a special teams guy,” Cenac said, “A guy who played one year on special teams for the Cowboys. Then he’d become a trainer – a health pro – at a gym near my house.

“I was very interesting,” he said. “That whole episode is about how Hank and guys treat that football player like a god because he’d played on the Cowboys and that’s exactly what happened when this guy moved into our neighborhood. Even the adults were saying, “Ooooh this neighborhood is on the rise…’”

Texas is “a different place,” Cenac said.

“I remember, on a fairly regular basis, hearing talk of Texas secession,” he said. “I don’t remember when I learned it, but it was something that was instilled in me at a young age.”

Cenac was taught to believe that Texas was special.

“It was the only state that was a country and it agreed to be a part of the United States,” he said. “So there was this idea that anytime Texas wanted to, it could grab the ball, go home and be a country again.”

This skewed perspective resulted in a strange sense of pride that was often counter-productive, Cenac said.

“You wind up seeing people acting against their best interests sometimes,” he said, “trying to keep up this idea.”

After his first visit to New York City as a young man, Cenac said he knew he’d found home and Texas wasn’t it.

“Maybe that’s also why I say I am a homebody,” He said. “I think at some level I just want get back there. I tell people it’s because I have stuff to do but I don ‘t really have stuff to do. I just want to walk around and make sure everything’s ok.”

Trying to make it as a writer and performer in the TV and movie industries means working on many projects that never see the light of day.

The hardest part of this, Cenac said, is that he creates a lot of work he is proud of that no one but the people who helped out in various ways will ever see.

“It is a horrible, frustrating thing because you’ve spent all this time and you’ve thought about the casting of it in your brain,” he said. “Even if it never went to series, on some level it feels like, ‘Let me at least just make this one thing. Let me at least see it through just so, that way, it exists.’”

That’s why Cenac said he would never give up on stand-up because the work is 100 percent his and he gets an immediate response to it.

“In a weird way, it’s kind of a drug in that the high I get from it is so unique to it,” he said.

He likens stepping in front of a new audience every night to “going on a blind date with a couple hundred people.”

“You’re sitting there across the table and they all have their plates and you’ve got yours,” he said. “It’s like, ‘If this goes well, who knows where this night could take us? If it doesn’t, let’s go Dutch on this and we don’t ever have to see each other again.”

Cenac’s ultimate career dream involves nothing more specific than creative autonomy.

“As a kid I enjoyed being able go into my room and just make things,” he said. “I think on some level that’s the thing I’m still chasing: the ability go off into my basement and make something and there will be an audience for it and the resources to do it and the freedom to do it.”