She lived in a motel for 3 years as a kid. Here’s how she turned it into standup comedy [Video]

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It was one of Janelle Niles’s bleakest moments — and so she decided to turn it into a joke.

“Some kids count sheep to sleep. I was counting bedbugs,” quipped the 36-year-old about being a homeless preteen and sharing a motel room with her family, as part of a set at a Yuk Yuk’s in Ottawa.

Niles was 12 when her family was evicted, forcing them to move into a …