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so when you get dinged uh whatever like things didn't work and or bombing at
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clubs or it seems to me you'd have a lot of resilience or things you'd say to
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yourself or was it I mean because I got hurt when I bombed auditioning for SNL I
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followed Kennison in 83 at The Comedy Store all right horrible bomb and I got oh that was my shot so I was kind of I
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mean I was functional but I was down for a couple months I'm a huge believer in
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low self-esteem no it's it's a cute line I know it is it's a key to success because if you
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don't think you have the smartest person there you're always trying oh yeah
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that's me if I see some I mean I know so many comics they did it the bit worked in Denver two
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years ago and they've been doing it ever since and then they'll go no I did this
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in Denver I know it only worked once yeah I've seen you do it five it doesn't
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work anymore get rid of it they cannot get rid of material get thrown everything is not funny you know that's
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why I followed prior every night and when when Richie was I mean we called him Richie prior tonight no it's like
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how crazy Richard Pryor yeah and and he was great I mean he was the best no really clever and I said to Mitzi can I
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go on after prior every night and she said yeah because nobody wanted the spot and I realized I didn't have 45 minutes
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I had 18 minutes but I it was the tightest 18 minutes because this audience had been listening to Prior and
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it was just so I just did the funniest stuff I had and I threw everything else away and you just have to have that
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discipline to do that I mean so many guys go up and they just screw around you're there to work you have 20 minutes
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work come up with stuff try new material you know make get tighter throw out every word that's not funny and just
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tighten it look I have an idea for you yeah we one of our sponsors yeah is Master Class
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oh he should teach you master's class and and Steve Martin's on one people
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done one but you have a very specific point of view that's really really uh would be would help people have
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talent and discipline well yeah I mean to me Seinfeld and I have this discussion all the time uh
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it's an art form you need to be a specific tight you're not up there to school I know somebody they just get up
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and they screw around and they think that that's funny I Gotta Laugh yeah but
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you had this two minute every six to nine seconds you should get a laugh I love that that's about right wouldn't
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you say I would say yeah it should yeah like six laps a minute or more but you're getting a laugh every six to nine
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seconds because maybe it's not a joke but it's a funny impression or it's a
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funny manner I wanted to roll I came from watching Rob Williams yeah and he was the one like would do his thing and
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come back to San Francisco I thought I have work to do right yeah it's like I'm
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going if that is the standard I have a lot more work right exactly yeah that's
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all yeah it's amazing how lazy people are when I started in Arizona there was uh as I said to Colin Quinn I
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go I started and there's no comedy scene he goes is there one now I go oh I guess
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not really but in Arizona you know no one was doing stand-up when I started yeah so you had to really want to do it
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because I think now it's kind of cooler it's a bigger deal you see people
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playing theaters Arenas so more people gravitate to that and they just do whatever I always remember a comic said
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to me he said well you and Seinfeld you guys are lucky you started during the Golden Age of Comedy when everything was
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funny now now there's no golden age of Comedy shut up idiot yeah as if anybody
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has a free pass you and Seinfeld rose up because you were killing had to be good