Hopefully Standup Will Become Special Again.

You Hope To See An Arc Of Growth In Your Ability To Become A Character On Television.

Any Comic Can Get On The Radio Show And Be Funny. You Can Get That On Any Morning Radio Show Or Afternoon Radio Show. There Are Plenty Of People Who Do That. It's Not A Difficult Format, To Sit Around With Two Or Three Comics And Be Funny.

I Knew Most Of My Radio Listeners Were Lefty Political People, And I Decided Definitively Not To Be That Guy - Not To Address Politics.

They Are Not Testing Comics For Drugs. If Our Job Is Dependent On That, There Would Be Three Working Comics In The Country, And Two Of Them Would Have Puppets.

There's This Whole Post-modern, Nuevo Beatnik, Retro-bohemian Thing Going On, You Know What I Mean? You Walk Into Some Coffee Shops, And It Feels Like You're An Ex-patriot In Paris In The 20s. You're Like, 'hey, Isn't That A Young Ernest Hemingway Over There? Yeah, I Think It Is! Hey, Let's Go Have A Look And See What He's Writing... It's A Gap Application.'