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 VAUGHNShrimp 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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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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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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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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Netflix is very protective with their information .
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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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When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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