Charley Crockett

Yes.

It's not their fault.

we need to understand the business if you're in the business if you don't understand it you'll be taken over by it there's no doubt even if they got you on top yeah and then you have to have autonomy you have to have you have to this personal sense of self or you could avoid the influence you have to be able to just stick to your guns and that's the hard part right because then they dangle that carrot in front of you man that carrot is juicy especially if you've been out in the street

Well, I got lucky in that I got on television so early and I didn't want to be on television.

It wasn't something that I wanted.

Yeah.

But they offered me so much money to be on TV.

I was like, what?

Okay.

But I kept growing and doing my comedy at the comedy store.

And that was the most important thing that I just kept doing comedy.

And then the money was just like, fuck you money.

So it's like, because I had the fuck you money, I could kind of be myself.

And there was a lot of temptation.

I remember the producers of Fear Factor were like, what are you doing?

Because some of my comedy was just out there.

This will get you in trouble.

This is not network television comedy.

I was like, well, then I won't do network television anymore.

Once I had a certain amount in the bank, I was like...