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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.

Baron Vaughn

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

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

East Gorgeous Middle 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.
BARON VAUGHN

Favourite Laughing Talent Unique
I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone’s afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed.
BARON VAUGHN

Existential Height Way
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 VAUGHN

Country Thinking 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
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Artist Believe Couple
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’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I’ve looked up to from a very young age.
BARON VAUGHN

Age Legends People
I think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it’s the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that’s crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.
BARON VAUGHN

Crazy Return Thinking
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
Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They’re bottom feeders. So they’re delicious, but they’re the bugs of the sea.
BARON VAUGHN

Ocean Sea Shrimp

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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