[music] [laughter] [applause]
All right, so the question answer portion
of the evening. So whose got a question? Yeah.
[O.S] I remember you once said that your
material is like your best friend.
What did you mean by that?
Yeah, your material is your best friend.
It's, it's a concept of ... the idea is
that if you're a road comic,
and a little bit when you're, you know, in your beginning and going out into the clubs and stuff.
It's the thing you can kind of rely on.
But when you really become ... go out on the road.
Everything changes. Everything is different all the time. Okay?
You go out of the same airport, but in a different plane and a different thing.
You get someplace, it's a different
Uber driver, it's a different people at the hotel.
It's a different people at the club, it's a different audience.
Everything is constantly changing.
And the hard part, is that you're interfacing with mostly people who really hate their jobs. Right?
They're really typical, these people, you know.
So that's there. And you can get the club and you've got this, this...
You have a  show. And you've got
this confidence in the show, that almost every time,
you can get up and make a bunch of strangers laugh. Okay?
That's amazing. And that that's what I'm talking about.
Your best, it's, it's the thing that, that you have some control over. Okay?
You don't have any control over the audience.
Or, you know, any of the flying. or any of hotel, you don't, you don't.
This is, is, this, it's kind of like a, kind
of like an emotional support animal. Right?
More like an emotional support entity. You know?
You got to take care of it. You know? You don't have to clean up after it.
But well, some shows I've had to.
But you know, it's the way that I talk about it.
It should be like a living thing,
you know, you're constantly adding to it,
cleaning it up, you know, feeding it,
changing it, experimenting, having fun and
it's almost like a living thing. It's
creative. It should be constantly growing, and stuff.
But there's a consistency there, that you walk into a completely, ever-changing world.
And when you have that show that you know you can rely upon.
It's the best thing in the world because when you go into those...
you really, when you go into those clubs, you just know you're going to be able to
entertain a whole bunch of strangers. And
you do that by using this best friend,
who joins you in this performance for
all these people.
And it gives you the confidence and the bravery to enter that ever-changing world.
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