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The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.

Baron Vaughn

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
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
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 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 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
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
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 can’t do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
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Barack Impression Thanks
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
The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
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Audience First Make Sense
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
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
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
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
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Alphabet Cool Country Place
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 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

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