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

Baron Vaughn

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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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Journey Laughing People
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
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
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
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
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East Gorgeous Middle 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.
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Like Moving Writing You
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
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
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place
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 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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Beautiful Country Thinking
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 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
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
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

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