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