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" Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere. "

Todd Barry

Bad

Run

You

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" I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange. "

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Opening

Again

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that. "

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Involved

Teaching

" If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts. "

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Someone

Blues

" I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. "

" I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show. "

" 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. "

" 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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Mean

Logic

" I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that. "

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Stage

Never

" People in New York love having roof parties. "

" And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy. "

" 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. "

Todd Barry

Thought

Know

" There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake. "

Todd Barry

Comedy

Sake

" Anyone who bombs is my friend. "

" Well, I have since seen you at Tinkle. It's a comedy show started by David Cross, me and Jon Benjamin. It features a wide variety of acts for all tastes and seasons. "

" My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act. "

" I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase. "

Todd Barry

Amazing

Writing

" I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film. "

" You always think you're better than you are in the beginning. "

" If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. "

" Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself. "

" I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. "

" I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value. "

" I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone. "

" I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written. "

Todd Barry

Years

You

" I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place. "

" I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. "

" I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work. "