Right.

It was just the nature, the ribbing.

And then if I was to deep dive s- my psychology of it all, if my mom's having a kid every so ...

You know, the, the attention on me was less and less as the oldest.

So I just started imitating friends, relatives, SNL sketches, anything to put on a little talent show.

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You've got a bone to pick over here, brother.

I am incredibly wealthy.

There's no doubt about that.

I'm one of the richest people in New York.

Were you going to ask Harry a question? I love Harry.

I've known Harry for a really long time.

but I'm so sick of listening to Harry talk.

I know it's insane Yeah,

How does it start? As a prostration, a weird observation, a phase?

Great question again.

The origination of a bit is anything that moves or strikes me.

Any kind of emotion.

So it could be sadness, happiness, excitement, embarrassment, frustration, anger.

And I'm constantly putting it in my phone, in my notes.

I get the idea in notes and then I let it marinate for 24 hours.

talk about

I don't know how

they...

But I got...

What I kind of look for when I'm building a new set is I really want two signature bits that are more than five minutes long.

And I could either use them as an opener or a closer.

But it's two pieces that I'm really confident in that I can sandwich in.

And in between that, I can sandwich even newer material.

Yeah.

Yep.

And it was a nice part of town, too.

It wasn't a bad part of town.

I was like, where is everybody? My hustle, that's great.

That's the struggle for every comedian at my level.

It's never enough work.

Not never.

yeah.

Tell me about that process of when you first started, of trying to hit that home run, so to speak.

Yeah, you you over.

So I've been I've been in the game a couple of decades now.

In the beginning, you overestimate your funniness and underestimate the value of the audience's feedback.

So you are you get up there and if you don't have the emotional intelligence or the self-awareness enough to go, oh, I just did really bad.

What do I need to change? Then you're not going to get any better.

Right.

What's some of the green room, green room talk, uh, when y'all back there when you back there were on set with other comedians what things y'all talk about oh