You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don’t know that Africa is a continent. They think it’s a country because it looks as big as we do.
BARON VAUGHNOne 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, “What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?” And I say, “Well, they always usually ask, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?’ And it’s good to have an answer for that.”
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If you’re driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
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I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
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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.
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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.
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The album [Blaxistential crisis] artwork is by a friend of mine who is a brilliant artist named Sara Pocock. We’ve been friends for a couple of years and she worked with me on the animation. I believe she’s still working over at BuzzFeed.
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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.
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I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
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I’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I’ve looked up to from a very young age.
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The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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Every laugh is not equal. They come from different places. That’s sort of the challenge I go towards, making sure the laughs are for the reasons I want. It becomes a back and forth dance with the audience.
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