I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.
People get into stand-up comedy by and large because they're smart and they have a perspective.
When you're 17 years old, you have no idea who you are as a person, so there's no way you can be a good performer. You can't be a good comedian, because you don't know who you are, you don't know what you're saying. Stand-up is nothing but an expression of self-awareness. It wasn't until I was 23, 24 that I got to have a handle on a perspective on life, where I became decent. And I was just a terribly socially awkward younger person.
You have an obligation to challenge your fans and your viewers.
You write the script, and then you just go over it 400 times and make all the jokes better. It really is true. That's essentially the way it works.
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