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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.

Baron Vaughn

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
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
Netflix is very protective with their information .
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Information Netflix Protective
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
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Comedian Laughing Want
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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Barack Impression Thanks
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Audience First Make Sense
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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Body Odor Tickets
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
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
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
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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East Gorgeous Middle Want
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
[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
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

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