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One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I’ll count that as meeting.

Baron Vaughn

If you’re driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
BARON VAUGHN

Driving Necks Way
[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.
BARON VAUGHN

Believe Fit Memories
There’s a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.
BARON VAUGHN

Journey Laughing People
Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.
BARON VAUGHN

Character Lilies People
Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don’t like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I’m going to get punched, I’m going to get elbowed, I’m going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone’s going to hit me with their body odor or something.
BARON VAUGHN

Body Odor Tickets
Lily Tomlin…I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She’s this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.
BARON VAUGHN

Favourite Laughing Talent Unique
The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don’t have to listen to everything they think or say.
BARON VAUGHN

Audience Boss Thinking
I’ll get laughs in the places I don’t want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don’t mean to get too deep into comedy here.
BARON VAUGHN

Laughing Mean Want
I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn’t born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.
BARON VAUGHN

Desert People Two
I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
BARON VAUGHN

Diagnosis Insulting Shoulders
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
BARON VAUGHN

Audience First Make Sense
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
BARON VAUGHN

Barack Impression Thanks
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
BARON VAUGHN

Empires Hate Records
Netflix is very protective with their information .
BARON VAUGHN

Information Netflix Protective
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
BARON VAUGHN

East Gorgeous Middle Want
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
BARON VAUGHN

Alphabet Cool Country Place

One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was too afraid to actually go talk to him, but I’ll count that as meeting.

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