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" 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. "

Todd Barry

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Writing

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

" I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also. "

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

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Teaching

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. "

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

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Opening

Again

" It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

Todd Barry

Stage

Never

" 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. "

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

" 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 got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend. "

Todd Barry

Tour

Got

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

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

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

" Anyone who bombs is my friend. "

" I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started. "

" 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. "

" 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. "