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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.

Baron Vaughn

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

Comedian Laughing Want
I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
BARON VAUGHN

Diagnosis Insulting Shoulders
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 VAUGHN

Favourite Laughing Talent Unique
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
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 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.”
BARON VAUGHN

Agents Answers Years
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
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Like Moving Writing You
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
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
BARON VAUGHN

Barack Impression Thanks
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 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 alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
BARON VAUGHN

Alphabet Cool Country Place
I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
BARON VAUGHN

Childhood Different Kind
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

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