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" I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that. "
Todd Barry
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" 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. "
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" And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy. "
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" You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6. "
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" 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. "
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" People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people. "
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