Big Jay Oakerson

You got a you've cultivated like Comedy fans that want to see edgier shit.

They want to hear fucked up jokes, New York and LA They don't really like if you're just going on a random pop-in set at the stand or the cellar or the comedy store Into some random show and they don't know who you are.

You start doing fucked up shit.

They get very tight and

Very tight, like down here, like you could go in the main room of the Mothership or at the Creek.

I mean, these, they're comedy fans.

They're like legit.

It's become like a comedy destination.

Kind of how like, you know, people go to New Orleans for jazz.

He's squeaky clean sometimes.

Yeah, he's on Nate's.

Hilarious.

He's like Nate's guy, so yeah.

And it's like anything else.

This business is about...

being likable and getting people to want to watch you succeed.

Where it's like, you'll get your opportunity if you fucking, if all the other comics are like, yo, this guy's funny, you should take a look at him.

I've seen that happen directly.

Can I get the lighter again?

The advice I would have given a young comic 15 years ago, I was a young comic at the time too, but I would be like, do not be on camera for the first decade that you do comedy.