Carrot Top

Right.

And sometimes it just goes horribly wrong.

And everybody's like, boo.

You're like, ah.

Bro, those New Yorkers don't fuck around, man.

If you start bombing a little bit, they smell blood.

Really?

It's pretty easy to bomb in front of eight people.

It was horrible.

It happens.

That was one of the great things about the store is that you would get those eight people crowd sometimes.

The early days of the store, you would go up, you know, if you got like an 1130 spot on a Tuesday night, you might go up in front of eight people.

That can happen.

Because you probably won't really get on at 1130 because a bunch of people stop in and do sets.

So by the time you get up, it's probably like closer to one.

Yeah, but those shows show you what's bullshit.

They show you there's something about a small crowd shows you what you're saying is nonsense.

Sometimes you have to figure it out.

The brutal thing about comedy is you kind of really have to figure it out in front of people with the openness of failing, right?

Here's the thing.