I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.
I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me.
I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year.
That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.
I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.
Louis [C.K.] is great. But I don't know how many you could do.
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
I probably go to 100 shows a year.
Doing eight shows a week is hard.
I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.
If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year.
With stage, it's very tough. You have to have a lot of stamina - you're doing eight shows a week for 19 weeks. The same thing, every night. Twice a day some days. The only full day I actually had off was Sunday. And every night is different.
If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
Each week we usually have one person who's never done the show before. Last year we had close to 60 who'd never done the show before. We're constantly booking new people, sometimes to the consternation of people who live here who do the show regularly.
I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.
We tried to do a show once every three weeks to a month. We'd always do a new show. It was not successful. It did not become the Matt & Ben show, but it taught me what I like to do as an actor and what I like to do comedically.
I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
There's generally a couple of months' gap between shows. And I am rather glad it's been that way because I am a workaholic.
