CoolHunting.com is getting me some tacos and I'm going to talk about my new stand-up
special, Dangerously Delicious.
I'm just squeezing some lime on these tacos, got grilled fish, steak, I think that's shrimp
and that's fish.
So I think this is already my favorite interview ever, I'm going to go ahead and start eating
this fish taco, I like that batter, I'm good, I always like being funny just like in conversation
and stuff and doing stand-up, the first time I did it I knew like I really liked this and
it's just like a skill I want to get better at, what, how did I get started in comedy,
I'm eating.
This is my second special.
My first one was called Intimate Moments for a Central Evening and that was on Comedy
Central and had like a typical DVD CD release.
It was around like May or June of last year I was trying to figure out how I wanted to
do this special and decided I was going to do it digitally because I saw how many views
I had on YouTube versus how many DVDs I sold and it was clear people were watching stuff
on YouTube and I wanted to just embrace that.
I was hanging out with Louis CK, he was editing his special and he told me what he was doing
and I thought it was interesting and then I just decided yeah I might as well, it seems
like you know this worked and that people were into it so I kind of fight what's working.
So I think the landscape of how we consume and buy media is changing like every couple
of weeks.
It seems like what you want to move towards is just, here's some money, let me watch it
on everything.
What's annoying to me is like, I want to watch Game of Thrones, is it on, what do I watch
that?
Is that Netflix?
Is it on HBO On Demand?
Do I find it on iTunes?
Like what do I do?
I feel like I've paid for this already somehow through cable or whatever like where do I watch
it?
I know I've paid for this, where is it?
You know?
So hopefully it's moving towards a consolidation and lack of regard for exclusivity.
Mmm.
That's really good.
The thing about stand-up is it's very independent by nature and you're kind of autonomous.
It's a unique field where you can't really rest on the work you've done too much.
You know, it's not like I could go out and do like my big joke for my first special and
tour on that because people would be like, I've heard it before, whereas if you're a
musician like say Sting or whatever, you can just get up there, every breath you take.
It's not the same for jokes, no one's like, it's that thing about it doesn't again.
It's like I heard it already, sir.
Do you have any new observations about that?
There's something sweet in there, in the salsa, what's in there?
Pineapple sauce.
That's good.
Yeah.
I put pineapple sauce in the shrimp taco, it's very good.
The special, you can kind of control it.
So I own it and so I don't have to add these or anything like that and I like that about
doing it independently.
I think something like Twitter just changes how much direct access do you have to fans.
So if I have a tour on so I can tell like 1.7 million people or whatever, hey, I'm doing
this tour and these shows and stuff will sell out just from that.
There's no like traditional advertising and newspapers and all that stuff since you can
also use it to entertain people and write jokes and stuff, it seems less annoying and
people actually check it.
I just like the process of becoming a better performer and continuing to write material
and becoming really working on improvement and becoming a better artist over time.
Thanks for all those tacos.
