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If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.
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I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.
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I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.
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Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
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I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.
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I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
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It's been a very strange trajectory because I struggled for so many years. I mean, I was doing these videos, I was doing these live shows, I had a lot of fans in New York, the press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job, and so my father and I were really like a team.
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I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep.
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If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.
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I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.
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One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there - this was over 10 years ago, so it's no one who I work with now or have worked with recently - but he told me that I was too ambitious.
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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
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