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" And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy. "
Some
Laugh
Joy
" Anyone who bombs is my friend. "
Friend
Anyone
Who
" Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days. "
Bad Days
Bad
Good
" I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. "
I Am
Personal
Experience
" I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year. "
Did
Road
New York
" I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that. "
Involved
Up
Teaching
" I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. "
Sports
Like
You
" I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value. "
Worthy
Even
Normal
" I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians. "
Comedians
People
Know
" I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. "
Culture
Much
Pirate
" I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place. "
Hang
Send
Place
" If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts. "
Someone
Blues
Go
" If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. "
Wave
You
Walk
" I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend. "
Tour
Go
Got
" I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange. "
Opening
Up
Again
" I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it. "
Sick
Friends
Watching
" I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work. "
Flexibility
You
Work
" I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also. "
Kangaroo
Quite
Liked
" I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase. "
Amazing
Like
Writing
" I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. "
Thanksgiving
Would
Love
" I loved Australia. I was very successful there. "
Very
Successful
Loved
" I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage. "
Driving
Night
Think
" I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage. "
Stage
You
Monday
" I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that. "
Like
Stage
Never
" I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right. "
Mean
Like
Logic
" I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone. "
Proud
Dreams
Reluctance
" I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. "
World
Ripping
Traveling
" I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written. "
Go
Years
You
" I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors. "
Next
Wild
Flight
" I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. "
Like
Thought
Know
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