You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

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