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" After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff. "
I Can
Young
You
" After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. "
Think
Comedy
Performance
" At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python. "
Right
Now
Doing
" Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix. "
Sit
People
Movies
" Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want. "
Just Because
Doing
I Can
" I came into the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV show with a level of confidence that I don't think I would've had if I hadn't been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them. "
Humor
Think
Doing
" I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books. "
Back
Issues
People
" If you look at Earwolf, we've tried to have a really diverse stable of hosts. Even my show can get a little 'dudey' sometimes. "
Look
Little
Even
" I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing. "
Doing
Look
Movies
" I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about. "
World
Thought
Up
" I guess when I was a kid I wasn't the type of person playing a lot of pranks. I was the type of person upon whom pranks were pulled. "
Person
Lot
Pranks
" I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they not only tell you who shot JFK, but they assign you bodyguards. "
Show
Know
Single
" I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.' "
Our
Days
Show
" I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies. "
Hope
Movies
Me
" I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes. "
Jokes
Funny
Late
" I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life. "
Life
Doing
Anything
" I probably could be a world-class screenwriter by now if I had spent the kind of work I devote on Comedy Death-Ray to that. But I do okay, in that regard. I mean, my stuff gets bought, so it's all right. "
Work
Right
Okay
" I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!' "
Remember
You
Started
" I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal. "
Happy
Goal
Think
" I think expressing yourself and working hard can't help but have great results. Look at Zach Galifanakis. He didn't tweet. He didn't have a podcast. He just went out and did the funniest standup you'll ever see in your life. And he was rewarded for that. "
Think
Help
Yourself
" I think that 'Mr. Show' was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter and I went to see Bob and David - who I'd never heard of - do a live show, which was one of the shows that got them the 'Mr. Show' show. "
See
Influence
Live
" I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization. "
Better
Kind
Doing
" I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that. "
Always
Radio
Like
" I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv. "
You
Questions
Say
" I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was. "
Friend
Thought
People
" Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating. "
Stuff
Great
Living
" My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?' "
Beginning
You
Saying
" Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years. "
Myself
Comedy
Great
" Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art. "
See
You
Art
" That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned. "
Working
Trust
More
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