If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.
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It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.
That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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