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 VAUGHNThe 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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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.
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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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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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The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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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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Netflix is very protective with their information .
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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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The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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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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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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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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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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I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
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