Bill Maher

Because anybody who went through, especially the time when you were really out there grinding,

I mean, that was really the height of it.

Like you said, it was kind of a golden age in a way.

In a way.

But when you look back on it, do you think about the pain and the misery, or do you have a kind of a longing and a fondness for it?

Yeah.

And these people saw those jokes 10 times already.

I remember doing my show or my set and, you know, in some places it murdered, it destroyed.

I was like, oh, this is my call.

Of course.

And then...

I learned, it's an education.

It's a whole process because I would take that and I would go to, somebody would say, hey, Rob, you want to do this charity event?

Yeah, sure.

I'll pop in, I'll help out.

And I would do my club act for this, not knowing, hey, someone's got to pull me, somebody needed to pull me aside and say, hey, hey, hey, so here's how this works.

The way I learned is by people wanting to kill me.

I didn't know.

And then they want to mix you in with music.

Yeah, that too.