Billy Bob Thornton

They always have a signer there.

I don't remember it much when I was growing up.

I don't remember it at all.

So can I ask you a comedy question?

Sure.

Because it's always fascinated me.

I mean, people have said to me before, like, especially if I get on a roll and I've had a few beers, they say, you ought to do a, just, you know, just for one night, just do a standup in LA or New York or somewhere or Texas, wherever.

And I'm like, it's the scariest thing in the world to me.

Like, if you and I are just hanging out, you know, all of us, you know, having a beer, you know, maybe I can be kind of funny sometimes, but...

To get on a stage, and the reason I'm afraid of it is because if you're doing a play, if you're doing a cat on a hot tin roof or whatever the hell it is, you don't really know the reaction from the audience.

I mean, it's like they either love the shit out of this or they don't get it or whatever, but you don't know in the moment.

If you're a stand-up comic, you have one reason.

to be up there, and that's to make them laugh.

So if you don't make them laugh pretty soon, you're fucked.

And I mean, I can't imagine bombing as a comic.

And I think about different people over the years that had a very different type of comedy, you know?

And like Stephen Wright, for instance.

Yeah, perfect example.

Stephen Wright.

who walks out there, doesn't say shit to the audience for a minute, takes a drink of water and then he goes, so last night I accidentally put my car key into my door at my house and started my house up.