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I can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

Baron Vaughn

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.
BARON VAUGHN

Crazy Return Thinking
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
Netflix is very protective with their information .
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Information Netflix Protective
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
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
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
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
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
Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They’re bottom feeders. So they’re delicious, but they’re the bugs of the sea.
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Ocean Sea Shrimp
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Audience First Make Sense
If you’re driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
BARON VAUGHN

Driving Necks Way
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
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Like Moving Writing You
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
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

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