The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
BARON VAUGHNI just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
More Baron Vaughn Quotes
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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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I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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Netflix is very protective with their information .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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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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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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