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

Baron Vaughn

The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Audience First Make Sense
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Comedian Laughing Want
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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Journey Laughing People
As you go on you realize “Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?” You get to a point that is that so you move on.
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Like Moving Writing You
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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Existential Height Way
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
[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.
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Believe Fit Memories
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
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
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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Audience Boss Thinking
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
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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Barack Impression Thanks
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
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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East Gorgeous Middle 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.
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Age Legends People

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