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The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

Baron Vaughn

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
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.
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Country Thinking Two
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
BARON VAUGHN

East Gorgeous Middle Want
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

Afraid Meetings One Time
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
BARON VAUGHN

Alphabet Cool Country Place
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
As you go on you realize “Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?” You get to a point that is that so you move on.
BARON VAUGHN

Like Moving Writing You
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.”
BARON VAUGHN

Agents Answers Years
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
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
BARON VAUGHN

Barack Impression Thanks
The thing is that where I want to go isn’t necessarily tied to what’s going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful.
BARON VAUGHN

Beautiful Country Thinking
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
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
BARON VAUGHN

Comedian Laughing Want
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

Laugh Laughing Mean Sometimes Want
I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
BARON VAUGHN

Childhood Different Kind

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