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Callaroga Shark Media, Hello Jenny Mack On Your Daily Comedy News.
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John mulaney told GQ, I can really be setting my
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ways in some ways, but I'm very good at major transformations.
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At Georgetown, he joined an improv group with Nick Kroll
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and Mike Probiglia, but said I had erratic work habits.
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I was very disorganized in a sense. I was always ambitious,
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but I wasn't like I'm going to direct every play
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in high school. I wasn't all over it in any way.
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He got to New York at age twenty three and
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said I hit the ground running. It was all of
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a sudden, this total focus and drive to do as
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much stand up as possible. I didn't drink alcohol anymore.
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I didn't take any drugs. I was just totally dedicated
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to one thing, kind of monastically, and it was awesome.
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GQ analyzed his style and they nailed it here. They wrote,
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He's expert at landing an audience deep into the thicket
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of a joke set up and then pausing just long
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enough to allow them to arrive at the punchline right
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before he does. When it works best, a single word
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detonates like a bomb. Seth Meyer says sense to the audience,
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I'm in control. I'm not particularly interested in which of
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these jokes you like and which you don't. No matter
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what happens, I'm going to be having a very good time.
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Jim Jefferies told review dot Com. When I moved over
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to America, there was this sort of myth that I
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was only funny because I said the C word and
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because of my accent. But I sold more tickets in
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Australia where they weren't fascinated by my accent and the slightest.
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So it's just good to see you can entertain people
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all over the world. It used to be to go
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to a country several times to try and break a country.
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When I came to America, arguably they'd only been a
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handful of comedians from overseas that ever broke America before that.
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Now you know about a whole heap of different comics
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from all over the world because you've seen their specials.
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I'm not on TikTok, so I'm a bit of dinosaur
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in that regard. I don't think my comedy plays out
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well on TikTok. I think part of the problem with
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TikTok is that we're seeing comedy in short form. Amen,
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So the long winded stories are the things that loop
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around in the callbacks and the shows being a show,
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we're sort of losing that nuance yep. In the same
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way that people don't listen to albums anymore, they're just
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listening to individual songs. They don't listen to albums as
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they're meant to be played out as the artists set
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it up to be heard. And I think that sort
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of happened to comedy as well. Yep. High five standing
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oh for me On that comment, crack dot Com asked
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Anthony Jelsink about being an actor. He said, I would
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enjoy it because I enjoy the camaraderie. Stand up's all
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on your own. With acting, you're working with people. I
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like that. I'm just not asked to do it very often,
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and frankly, I'm surprised I'm not asked. I'm a good
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looking guy. I have a very distinctive voice that I
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think they would use me in voice stuff. But I
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think at some point people will start asking me. But
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I'm spoiler. As a comic, I see comics who are
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making huge movies and I talked to them afterwards, and
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they're like, I lost money. If I just toured the
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whole time I was doing this movie, I would have
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done much better. It's not something I feel like I'm
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missing out on and I'm not that good. The interesting
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character is I wouldn't be able to play. I'd be thinking, Oh,
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someone else should be doing this, and that's a bad
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thing for an actor to be thinking. Cracked asked about
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Anthony's current hair style, Cracks observation, the older spike eer
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haircut seemed more in keeping with a villain. Now your
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hair is a little softer, not as threatening. I assume
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you think about how the character looks on stage. What
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prompted the change? Je Nic said, It's something I don't
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think about on stage, but it was something that I
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became very aware of after the last special when there
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was this huge debate about beard versus non beard and
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which is better for the character. The character seems more
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like a psychopath clean shaven, but I'm like, no, I
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like the beard. I decided to grow my hair a
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little bit longer on tour. I just thought, what would
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this do? Does this make me more of an a
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hole or less of an a hole? And let's be honest,
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I think having more of a styled haircut seems a
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little bit scarier. This is fascinating. It's more like we're
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putting on a show. Whereas the spiky haircut was easy
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to do. Anyone could do that. It just seemed like
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I'm walking out here doing this. I feel like I've
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gotten more famous in the past couple of years because
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of clips, and the clips are short. Here with longer hair,
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he feels it can be a little more anonymous in public.
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Preacher loss and has been out on the road doing
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the Funny as Bleep tour. And that's not me bleeping it,
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that's the name of the tour. Preacher said, I was
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very quiet, unless everybody in the class was quiet. Then
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I was like, all right, some people just really want attention.
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First off, everyone does. Let's just put that out there.
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No one wants to be ignored, but some people just
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wanted a little more. His tips for comedians get on
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stage immediately and just do comedy a lot. I think
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humor is like athleticism. Some people are born a little
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more than other people. Then there's some people that are
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just born a little funnier. But I don't care how
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athletic you are, you still have to learn how to
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shoot a basketball or dribble. You need to learn technique
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for comedy right every day, like it's your morning coffee.
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You should do it anyway for your mental health. It's
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not supposed to be fun. It's a job. You're not
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supposed to like jobs because they're working, and that's the
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trade off. Lawson says, I think I have the perfect
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amount of fame where if I go outside, there's people
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that recognize me. But it's not like I just want
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to eat with my family. I don't like when people
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take pictures or videos of me without my permission. I
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think that feels uncomfortable. It's like I never said I
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wanted to be recorded. As for controversial topics, Lawson says,
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anyone's going to get upset, but if it's a large
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group of people that are upset, I think it's usually
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because the comedian did a bad job of conveying the joke. Comedians,
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we're just storytellers. We're the same as you. When you
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go to the movies, you lose yourself for an hour
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and thirty minutes. You know you'd leave the theater feeling refreshed,
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like that was a good time. If you go to
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the movie theater you don't like the movie, you probably
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should have looked up the director. There's this narrative that
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you shouldn't apologize, which I think is stupid. I think
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there are times when the comedians should apologize and then
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they don't do it because they're like, no, I'm a
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comedi and it's like, no, actually you should apologize. But
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he adds, I really believe anyone could talk about anything,
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but sometimes you say dumb things like my bad, that
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was dumb. Sarah Silverman says, I don't really come from
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a place of fear that I'm gonna get canceled. I
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talk about stuff that I think is important or funny.
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I'm never looking upset people are offend people. Comedy is
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not ever green. If you're a comedian, you look at
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things you did ten years ago and don't cringe. You're
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not growing ideally, you're growing and changing and can't relate
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to the person you were. People get mad at me
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because I've apologized for things in the past. I think
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it's important to apologize when you're sorry and not apologize
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when you're not sorry. Everybody wins. Friend of the Show
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John Marco Sirizi is on Vulture's list of the comedians
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you should know and Will Know. They asked him, if
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you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what would your
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outfit be A very John Marco answer. Five inch shorts,
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a T shirt I got on Etsy for a high
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school musical production that I wasn't in that's also a
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little too short, a jean jacket that doesn't really make
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sense given the shorts, and high top nikes where one
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of the colors matches the color of the shirts text.
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Let's also throw in a thin gold Forever bracelet with
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a tea chirm that I got my girlfriend at a
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casino's tattoo convention, some Warpbey Parker glasses, and a brown
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leather watch, the two hands of which read Memento and Maury.
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Which musical nobody asked? Ideally it would be Falsetto's Company
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or Wild Party, just to be pretentious. Also, if I'm
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thinking about this as a cartoon for a wide audience,
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I'd probably go with fan of the Opera, even though
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I've never been much of an Andrew Lloyd Weberstan proudest
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achievement of your career so far? My jfl New Faces
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set is probably the only important set I've ever done
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that I wouldn't do over. I was at that show,
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he crushed. He was the best of the night. I
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wrote that down. I told you about it on the
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podcast the next day. I've told that to his face.
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That was a great set, he said. Generally, I found
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all these career milestones are fraught and stressful and imperfect.
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So in terms of feeling proud a panel in comparison
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to a new joke working, or even better, an old
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joke finally working. I did a pilot last year for
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a roast based panel show hosted by Anthony Jesselnik Interesting,
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and he anonymously mentioned me on his podcast the next week.
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I know this because I've been listening to that podcast
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to fall asleep to for years. I was already asleep,
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but my girlfriend heard it, shook me awake and was like,
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go back, go back now, it's pretty cool. I've been
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procrastlading filming an hour. Which comedian's career would you like
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to follow? John Mulaney, But just in terms of his
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personal life, his favorite worst show was getting hired to
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feature in a corporate gig in Santa Barbara. I think
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I was getting paid forty five hundred dollars to do
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twenty five minutes, which was hands down the most I'd
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ever made off a night of comedy. My mom drove
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me to the casino from LA and on the drive
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I looked at what company I was performing for. What
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I learned was it was less of a company and
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more of a union of sorts for West Coast electrical
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companies with a very intense ideological bent. Their newsletter had
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articles like has woke this Roob? And travel and COVID
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climate change and other lines Democrats want you to believe.
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I wish I could tell you I thought about not
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going through with the gig, but it would be a
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lie forty five hundred dollars. When I got there, my
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mom and I found ourselves surrounded by mostly men in
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their sixties thousands, all wearing full cowboy garb without looking
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like that ever been on a horse. So I met
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the other comedian, a kind and talented comic who nevertheless
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sold merch shirts that said who done farted? Hmm, I
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wonder who that was? Marco said. The comedy show started
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as all comedy shows should, with the singing of the
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national anthem. Then the auction, of course, which consisted of
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small guns, guns that were intended for warfare training packages,
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and you know, five friends to learn how to use
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those guns before or hopefully not after a wine tasting.
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Right as they were wrapping up the auction with the
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AK forty seven's, I looked through the playbill to ensure
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there wasn't going to be some kind of cross burning
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at the end, and that's when I saw the part
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with my name, which stipulated in big bold letters that
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the comedy portion of the evening was only possible thanks
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to a generous donation by Exon Mobile, you know, the
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evil company. I started freaking out, taking stupid comedian thoughts
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like well would George Carlin do? But I didn't have
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any cocaine, so I tried to think of a joke
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that in some way Abzombia the sin. So I got
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on stage and preceded a bomb for twenty three minutes.
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I wish I could say that was on purpose, despite
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the crowd, but it was more a mix of my
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lack of practice sticking to clean jokes plus second guessing
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jokes in the moment that I figured wouldn't play well
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with men old enough to have served in the Confederacy. Then,
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with two minutes left and no momentum to speak of,
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I went for it. At the time, I was closing
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with a joke about Titanic two, a recreation of the
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Titanic built by some billionaire who hopefully was on the
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recent submarine trip. Yikes. Normally I'd note that Titanic's voyage
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was much safer nowadays thanks to global warming, but this
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time I said it was because of the Iceberg's got
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a lot smaller thanks to my sponsor Exon Mobil. Wasn't
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a boo right away. First was just noise, a unified,
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confused groan, but then one old man was able to
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close his mouth long enough to produce a bee. I
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wouldn't say it was like an Apollo level boo. It
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was nothing like the Apollo in more ways than one.
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But it was my first real boo. And whenever I
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have an extremely crappy gig now I try to remind
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myself it's worth it for the story. That is amazing,
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and that is your comedy news for today. If you
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