Anthony Jeselnik

But Zach Galifianakis was on the side of the stage like crying with laughter and like ran up to me afterwards and was like, that's so amazing.

Don't listen to the audience.

And I would keep trying it and would keep bombing.

And I would see Zach and he'd be like, how's that joke going?

And I'm like, you would not believe how badly it's going.

And now I just do a thing where I'm like, I don't care anymore.

Like I've been doing this for almost 25 years.

Like this is what I like.

I'm just going to tell it to you.

You don't have to like it, but I love this joke.

And then that kind of sells it a little bit, but I have to literally set it up as like, this is a joke that horrifies people, but it is the funniest thing I've ever thought of in my life.

Like Jimmy Carr told me, like I had a bunch of jokes.

It was like an early special.

I think it may have been Caligula, like my Comedy Central special.

And I was like, I've got these jokes that are like almost too, it gets darker.

Where like the darker stuff, I don't know where to put it in.

It's like, it should go at the end.

And he was like, do what I do.

And he just gave it to me.

He was like, do what I do and just say, let's see how dark I can get.