The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.
There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.
In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.
There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.
Everybody in comedy has something like that happen to them: They bomb, or no one shows up. You're like, 'Hey, I'm funny, trust me!' And the world collectively goes, 'Yeah, you and everybody else.'
There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
