At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.
I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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