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" But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain. "
Stage
You
Mountain
" Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo? "
Brand
Talking
Jokes
" Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles. "
Compassion
Work
Hard Work
" I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh. "
Laugh
Sister
Road
" I hate wearing suits and ties. "
Ties
Hate
Suits
" I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved. "
End
Enough
Politics
" I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. "
English
She
Crazy
" I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage. "
Marriage
Parenting
Wife
" In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame. "
High
High School
Myself
" In real life, I am alarmingly boring. "
Am
Real
Life
" It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that. "
Sad
People
Media
" It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language. "
Talking
Wife
Hard
" I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that! "
People
Stand
Love
" I want people to feel good about themselves. "
Feel Good
People
Want
" I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think. "
Singing
Myself
Laugh
" My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter. "
Reality
Far
More
" On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes. "
Me
Husband
I Am
" On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs. "
You
Costs
Just
" Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day. "
Job
Lie
Day
" The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were. "
World
Book
Dog
" The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life. When you're on Twitter, you're not living, and if you're not living, you're not taking in stimuli with which you can create new material. "
Life
Create
Living
" Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him. "
Target
Me
Attention
" With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it. "
People
Truth
Money
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