Hollywood and Horsepower Show, September 17, 2026

Because you're up there And you're totally exposed.

You can't blame the playwright.

You can't blame the director.

It's you and your material and nothing else.

And

I couldn't agree more.

And I've done a lot of public speaking, as you know, and I've done a lot of in front of crowds.

And I will say the other thing that's funny with that I agree absolutely that I feel the exact same way.

And I'll even take it a step further.

One thing about comedy that I've always admired and had a lot of respect for is it's the most honest form of entertainment.

And what I mean is you get instant feedback of whether or not this is working.

There is no, you know, it either works or it doesn't.

And the funny thing is, it might not work tonight, and then a week later in a different club, you levitate the room.

So that's the other thing that's kind of unique about comedy, and I've heard multiple comics say that.

Like, they'll use the same material...

In another crowd, it literally levitates the room.

In this crowd, it didn't hit.

Sometimes they may be able to rework it a little bit.

Sometimes they really don't know what went wrong.

It was just the crowd.

So it is amazing to me, and I know you've got stories of how guys work on the material, and we'll get into that, but I agree completely.

I think it's one of the most true forms of entertainment in the sense that you basically have to qualify every time you go up there.

And it is funny, too, because you talk to comics.

You look at Jerry Seinfeld and David Spade, I think anybody would agree at this point they've what we would call made it, but both of them still work clubs probably three out of four weeks a month.

They still go and do sets, and they will both say, if we don't go out and work the clubs, we just don't feel as sharp.