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

Baron Vaughn

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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East Gorgeous Middle Want
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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Artist Believe Couple
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place
[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 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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Desert People Two
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
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
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
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Comedian Laughing Want
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
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
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.
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Empires Hate Records
Netflix is very protective with their information .
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Information Netflix Protective
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.
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Laughing Mean Want
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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Barack Impression Thanks
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

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