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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.

Baron Vaughn

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
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
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
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
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Comedian Laughing Want
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
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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East Gorgeous Middle Want
I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
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Diagnosis Insulting Shoulders
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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Crazy Return Thinking
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
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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Laugh Laughing Mean Sometimes Want
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
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
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
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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Afraid Meetings One Time

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