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It was also a way to balance out
people picking on you.
Nobody f***ed with you
if you were funny
because they were scared
you'd mock them.
It's the one thing I could do to a
football player that he couldn't do to me.
when I was 15.
I started doing drugs heavily.
So I went to rehab
when I was 16.
And I got out of rehab
and, like, all my friends
that I hung out
with just ignored me.
So my grades were so bad
that I took theater
to get an easy A.
I'm like, it's the easiest
A I can take.
So I do that.
And I do a monologue
that had...
that was comedic.
We would put on plays
for the entire school
and, uh, it was like,
super Def Jammy,
so, like, people would,
like, boo and throw stuff.
And we did this play
that we had written
and I was one of the leads
and I came out and, uh,
just completely had the entire
theater just destroyed, rolling.
Like, just murdered
with this character,
and, like, to the point...
I mean, people, like, lost it.
And my teacher was just like...
I walked offstage
and she was like,
"There's way more here
than you're seeing."
She's like,
"You gotta, like..."
and just started, like,
getting into comedy.
But it kind of, like, comedy took
over for what the drugs did for me.
I just became...
was so obsessed with drugs
and then that was gone
and so I just completely...
completely threw
myself into comedy.
You're controlling
this whole room.
You're giving them...
you're like a drug dealer.
You're giving them this drug that's
making them feel really good all at once.
From the time I was a kid and I got
addicted to people looking at me,
it's like, the reason
I want to do that for work
is because you get
addicted to that feeling.
You get addicted
to that immediate high.
I mean, that's why people become
addicted to sex or drugs or alcohol,
because it gives you what you
want or what you think you want.
Um, and with this,
it's a healthy way
to get love or whatever
it is that we call it.
But it's a constant...
it's like an adrenaline.
You know, there's nothing like
getting a laugh from people.
It's a really weird,
addictive high,
whether it's on a stage
or just with a...
which...
there's no other way
for me to achieve that.
There's no other way
for me to feel that
and nothing else
can compare to that,
so what kind of job
would I do...
I would go to work all day
and be miserable,
'cause no job is gonna
compare to that feeling.
So I think that was why I had
to keep doing it because this...
I'm always chasing that feeling.
How did that feel?
Oh, it... I'm sorry.
When you finally had...
Crack cocaine.
Yeah. Rock... crack... rock
cocaine... crack cocaine.
Because...
Big rock cocaine.
Because, um, when you're alone
and you're solo up there
and you can modulate them
and you get the laughs
and you can build on it and you can
go back and forth and you can...
the power of, like, calling back
something and having them...
It's like you're
the one-man show
and the adrenaline and blood
shoots through your head
in a way that I think is
identical to...
- to crystal meth.
- Yeah.
I would do gigs,
I would do a shot
at 12:
30 and at 4:00in the morning,
why I'm not asleep,
because it had just shot,
you know, the adrenaline
shoots through you.
I feel like comedy
is a drug in a weird way
and I don't know what
it's a gateway to,
but, doing more drugs?
Hour-long specials?
Hour-long drugs?
What does it lead to?
A sitcom of...
And you want a nightly drug.
A nightly thing?
I mean, it is, it really is.
And it's a buzz and you go,
"I gotta get that again."
I mean, you go to another
club the same night.
'- Cause you go, "I did this club already.
-" Yeah.
That's awesome.
And now let's go to another place where
there's more drugs. That's old porn.
That's old porn,
yeah, that's old porn.
I wanna go to a place...
I need some fresh.
It is a drug, you know?
And the closest thing...
When you have a... when you
have a moment of... of either
hilarity or vulnerability
on stage
or something that...
where you...
It's the closest thing
I've ever come to,
even in acting class,
of spirituality
where you kind of,
like, anything...
and I hate that
I'm even saying that word,
but like,
of any kind of, like...
But it's that powerful.
It is that powerful.
It's the closest thing I've had to,
you know, like, people speaking in tongues
or whatever and getting...
having an enlightened feeling.
Uh, when you have a moment on
stage or in film where you're...
But especially on stage,
where you're in front of
a live audience, where you're...
It's only happening
in that moment.
Yeah, yeah, and it's like,
bang, and it's your...
It's a feeling of enlightenment.
A feeling of freedom,
liberty, yeah.
It took a big chunk of time
for me to discover it,
to discover that silence
is the root of all comedy.
That's where it lays.
Um, because, uh,
all silence did
was panic me, so I...
If there was silence,
it meant they weren't laughing
or they were contemplating
how to kill me.
I don't think
there's any bigger thrill
in comedy
than when knowing
a big laugh's coming up
and they don't know.
When you've got
that little secret
where you're like, "In a second,
you're gonna be laughing."
And maybe they're
uncomfortable, or maybe...
I have... I have
a routine where, uh,
I took a friend of mine with
muscular dystrophy to a brothel
and there's
this moment just before
the woman sucks
the disabled guy off,
on stage, where they're
all going, "This is horrible,"
and I have a punchline that's
gonna zing, and that for me...
Silence is...
sometimes when you watch...
Do you ever watch, like, movies being
made and you can tell the editing?
When you can tell
jokes where you go,
"That joke worked,
but you cut it off too quick."
And someone who was editing it went,
"Well, that joke's over," boom.
You can gauge what that...
you know when the laughter
is gonna come.
You get that response built-in so that
when you're in the vacuum of an audience,
you know... you understand timing,
you understand the fundamentals.
Comedians, you know,
you have certain laugh ears, you can hear.
That's where you're
listening to the audience
and that's where some,
you know, new comedians,
you know, they bomb
and they come off stage
and they're like, "That was pretty good."
And you're like, "You're..."
You know, they have
no laugh ears, right?
I... I just have
the approach of
never give them a second.
Never give them a second to...
It's like someone's off balance.
That's the best time
to hit someone, right?
They're like,
that's kind of... Oh!
sit there and you talk to them
and you know they're just thinking
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