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

Baron Vaughn

When you’re a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
BARON VAUGHN

Comedian Laughing Want
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
Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They’re bottom feeders. So they’re delicious, but they’re the bugs of the sea.
BARON VAUGHN

Ocean Sea Shrimp
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Favourite Laughing Talent Unique
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
BARON VAUGHN

Audience First Make Sense
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Desert People Two
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

Journey Laughing People
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
BARON VAUGHN

Alphabet Cool Country Place
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Empires Hate Records
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
I’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I’ve looked up to from a very young age.
BARON VAUGHN

Age Legends 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.
BARON VAUGHN

Artist Believe Couple
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Challenges Different Laughing
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Audience Boss Thinking
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

Character Lilies People
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.
BARON VAUGHN

Existential Height Way

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