You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.
Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.
I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.
As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.