What does it take to make it as a comedian?
The hardest thing to do is to write jokes. The hardest thing to is to put that all those words together and then be on the stage and be able to deliver it. I mean delivery takes time but you can see how, over the years. Somebody grows into that. You see how comfortable they get after a while. Delivering the same joke, over, and over, and over, and how it gets better, and better, and better with the delivery.
How do they check their egos at the door?
Who said they check at the door? But you must say, you know, it is really a lot of rejection so, comedians have to have a really a good stomach for that because this is lot and lots of rejection, until you finally were able to breakthrough.
Are there any make-or-break moments?
I know that it takes so many years for you to really have slightest bit of a breakthrough. I do not think anybody really makes it, until they are doing this at least ten years. So, you can have ten years of a lot of rejection, and then, all of the sudden it is just quite amazing where one day, you will say, oh, my God look at that person, that stuff is really great. I do know how it happens but it happens.
What a makes a great comedian?
Their own voice, originality and that is it. Even if they are even if you are not that funny early on as long as you have the slant this direction this thing about you, and you stay with it, it will develop. I have seen that happened over the years.
How can a unique voice have wide appeal?
What happens what I find is that I may think somebody is funny, and it does not have to wide appeal but as soon as that perception gets out, then, may become stars. It is quite amazing. It is just you know, it is almost like that stamp of approval to tell the people that, oh, you can laugh at this person now because we are telling you they are funny. So, I mean that helps a lot also, the perception.
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