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Sometimes you’re not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny. It means you haven’t explored it enough.

Baron Vaughn

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.
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Body Odor Tickets
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Comedian Laughing Want
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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Childhood Different Kind
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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Character Lilies People
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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Challenges Different Laughing
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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Age Legends People
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Audience First Make Sense
Netflix is very protective with their information .
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Information Netflix Protective
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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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.
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Empires Hate Records
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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Laughing Mean Want
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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Favourite Laughing Talent Unique
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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Agents Answers Years
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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Desert People Two
Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They’re bottom feeders. So they’re delicious, but they’re the bugs of the sea.
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Ocean Sea Shrimp
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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Driving Necks Way

Sometimes you’re not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny. It means you haven’t explored it enough.

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Sometimes you’re not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny. It means you haven’t explored it enough.

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