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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.

Baron Vaughn

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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Agents Answers Years
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
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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Existential Height Way
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’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I’ve looked up to from a very young age.
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Age Legends People
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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Country Thinking Two
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
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
Netflix is very protective with their information .
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Information Netflix Protective
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 your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Audience First Make Sense
[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 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.
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Desert People Two
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
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.
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Like Moving Writing You
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place

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