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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.

Baron Vaughn

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 Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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East Gorgeous Middle Want
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place
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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Driving Necks Way
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’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 think Batman Returns is right for riffs. I love it but it’s the ultimate Tim Burton movie. There is so much that happens that’s crazy and there are a ton of things to riff.
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Crazy Return Thinking
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
When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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Comedian Laughing Want
[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 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
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
I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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Barack Impression Thanks
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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Challenges Different Laughing
I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say “old.”
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Diagnosis Insulting Shoulders
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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Character Lilies People

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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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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