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When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

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 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
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
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
[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 VAUGHN

Believe Fit Memories
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Challenges Different Laughing
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
BARON VAUGHN

East Gorgeous Middle Want
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
First 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 VAUGHN

Empires Hate Records
Anyone 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 VAUGHN

Body Odor Tickets
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
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
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 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
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 can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
BARON VAUGHN

Barack Impression Thanks

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