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" I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. "
Todd Barry
World
Ripping
Traveling
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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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" 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. "
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" If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. "
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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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" And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy. "
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" I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written. "
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" 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. "
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" I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase. "
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" I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors. "
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" I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend. "
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" My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act. "
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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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You
Monday
" I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange. "
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" If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. "
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" There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job. "
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