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.
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I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said 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.
“I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when … Read More
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.
“I’ll get laughs in the places I don’t want them and … Read More
Sometimes you’re not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn’t mean it’s not funny. It means you haven’t explored it enough.
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Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, “What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?” And I say, “Well, they always usually ask, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?’ And it’s good to have an answer for that.”
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Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don’t like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I’m going to get punched, I’m going to get elbowed, I’m going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone’s going to hit me with their body odor or something.
“Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and … Read More
I’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I’ve looked up to from a very young age.
“I’m working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who … Read More
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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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.
“One time I was really close to Steve Martin. I was … Read More
The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.
“The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not … Read More
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.
“The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it’s a cool place.” … Read More
I was processing a lot of different things and kind of looking over a lot of things and rethinking my childhood.
“I was processing a lot of different things and kind of … Read More
[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.
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You’re the hero of your own story. So it’s interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It’s really easy to be like “This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me.” These are such powerful ideas and it’s so easy to hold onto them forever.
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I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there’s a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world. I love a small dinner party – let’s say six people, max, where everybody’s having the same conversation. That’s my favorite thing in the world.
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I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He’s the voice of science and scientific thinking in the United States and the world. He’s the most visible proponent of scientific thinking, and he’s very unflinching about it. He knows that it’s correct and vouches for it in a very intelligent and very firm way, which I really appreciate.
“I am a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He’s the … Read More
You’re the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It’s really easy to be like “This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me.” These are such powerful ideas and it’s so easy to hold onto them forever. When I let go of those ideas it was easier to see my childhood from different points of view.
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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.
“There’s a difference between a sense of humor and a sense … Read More
Netflix is very protective with their information .
“Netflix is very protective with their information .” Baron Vaughn