A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every city you go to has television and radio talk shows that are dying to give young comics a showcase. They all want to be able to say that so-and-so started here, got his first break on this show.
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.
I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.
When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.
A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.