Anthony Jeselnik

I used to do, I mean, now I have like sillier jokes to throw them off.

I used to do crowd work a little bit and then I stopped because everyone was doing crowd work.

And I was like, this feels hack to me.

I don't judge people for doing it, but it made me want to stop doing it.

That now I'm just like, let me see if I can just go...

Do the opposite of what people were criticizing me for and just make it like just double down basically.

Right.

I mean, that's why I stopped podcasting was I felt like I was like burning creativity.

Even if it's a story I wouldn't use, people are like, I see so many comics now where they're like, I saw the show, I liked the month better on the podcast.

And I was like, I'd rather be better on stage.

But I've tried to tell a story at the end, you know, wrap it up.

Like I had like thoughts and prayers where I had like a big thing about social media at the end.

And like the audience is like, tell some more fucking jokes.

Like we'd rather hear jokes from you.

And I'm like, okay, let me just stick to that and make it great.

And if you put yourself in a box, if you back yourself into a corner, you'll find a way.

You know, I thought about you because I saw some of those comments.

I wrote a few of them.

But I think like when you're a one-liner guy, we're a joke guy like we are, it's about the live performance.

When you're doing the show and you're doing joke after joke, the audience is going fucking crazy.