Bill Maher
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I wrote shit material, and that was my first set.
And I got up and I did it.
I hated it.
I hated the whole experience.
I had more stage fright than I ever anticipated, because it felt like I was in a car accident.
I felt like I was in shock.
When I was done, I actually tried to run out of the theater.
I didn't hear any laughter.
And so I was stepping on any laughter there was, because I just wanted to get over the five minutes.
But this is my first time ever.
And as I was heading out of the comic strip, the guy goes, hold on a second, and handed me my VHS tape that they make of you.
And when I got home and my adrenaline had cooked off, I put the tape in.
And it wasn't that bad.
It wasn't as bad as I thought.
It was still shit.
It was garbage.
But it wasn't as bad as I remember it.
It wasn't scarier than certain things, but it was scarier on another level.
Yeah.
It's a different kind of fear.