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However, in hisnew show running on Broadway, appropriately titledThe New One, he parted ways with it.
Instead of stating he knew his behavior was wrong in the past, the narrative depicts the realization.
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Lets talk about seven words: I know … Im in the future also.It became everything, yeah.
What do you remember about coming up with that line?I know came out organically.
When I was telling Celebrity Golf for the first time, the audience really was judging me.
I had to be like, No, I know.
And so I did it organically, being the apologetic person who I am.
And the audience went nuts.
I didnt even tell it as a joke.
It goes back to the Seinfeld thing the audience tells you whats funny about you.
The audience is laughing at, Oh my God, he knows!
He knows the thing were judging him for right now!
But with that joke, youre doing it literally in the moment.
Theyre judging you in real time.
And then youre going, No, I know.
And theyre going, Oh, he caught us judging him.
Im in the future also was an improv.
And then that was one of the ones I go, Well fuck, yeah thats funny.
you better do that and then you go back to the story.
And then you go back to how do you feel about it.
What it does, as a comedian, a lot of how you feel about it can be jokes.
Did you ever think about making an Im in the future too?Well, no.
A lot of people paraphrase it as that and I dont like it.
I think also is funny because its wrong.
No one usesalsoas the final word in a sentence.
Ill take a stab at find it because she actually wrote it down for me in this thing.
[Finds notebook] This is a Russian poet named Kharms, who I hadnt heard of before.
It must also possess a slight error.
Im wrong in the story, but Im also aware that Im wrong in the story.
InThe New One, the show you just saw, theres tons of that.
I would argue more than ever.
Why?I used to have it in.
You dont need it.
You want to convey the thing with as few words as it’s possible for you to.
The master of that, I think, is Mitch Hedberg.
You just go, Oh my God, that joke only has like nine words in it.
An escalator can never be broken.
It can only become stairs.
How many words is that?
So, thats what it is.
Im trying to do it with less.
Were you like, I dont care if the audience thinks Im nice.
I dont need them to know I know Im wrong?I had to come to grips with that.
I had to throw that out into the universe.
Some people had been pretty judgmental.
How did you approach this?It built backwards from the ending, which I wont give away.
Its not a spoiler to say its a moment of clarity.
What leads up to that is a lot of confusion and frustration and anger and feelings of insecurity.
And how truthful are those to what I experienced?
I feel like in the last year, a question that people ponder about shows like this has reemerged.
You are a stand-up.
Is this stand-up?It just doesnt matter.
Same thing withHannah Gadsby andNanetteit literally doesnt matter what you call it.
I sawNanettelive in downtown New York.
I watched it again on Netflix and I loved it even more.
I just had a real experience with it both times.
People go, Its not stand-up.
Its not a one-person show!
It doesnt fucking matter.
It just fucking doesnt.
Can we all just get over the idea of labeling these things like, This is a movie!
This is a miniseries!
This is a TV series!
This is a special!
This is a one-person show!
You tell people to see it or you dont.
Just quit fighting about these stupid things.
So yeah, I think of myself as a comedian.
If you dont want to call me a comedian, I dont care!
