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 VAUGHNThe 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 VAUGHNI’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I’ve looked up to from a very young age.
BARON VAUGHNI 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 VAUGHNLily 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 VAUGHNThe Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
BARON VAUGHNI 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 VAUGHNNetflix is very protective with their information .
BARON VAUGHNFirst 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 VAUGHNAnyone 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 VAUGHNI’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 VAUGHNSometimes 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 VAUGHNThe 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 VAUGHNThe 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[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 VAUGHNYou 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 VAUGHNWhen you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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