Dan Mintz

I'm always ready for something to happen to break character.

And I'm always trying to, I mean, wherever I am, I'm like, I mean, it's weird because I was always like, so I'm not this comic, but eventually you kind of converge on, everyone has to do kind of the same tricks to engage a crowd.

And I'm like, okay, every place I go, I'm like, I got to say a thing about the place.

Which is like weird for me because I don't do that kind of thing.

But, you know, I try to like do like 10 minutes and then be like, it's great to be here in Cleveland and think of something.

I mean, the good news is because I'm breaking character a little bit, there's not a lot of pressure on me to do a full-fledged bit about Cleveland.

I can do something kind of half-assed.

I don't try...

I don't really try to be a character.

It is how I naturally am on stage.

Yeah.

But I'm not engaging with the audience.

Unless I break character to engage with audience.

Yeah, for me, the act is like, every line I say, I'm like, really, I really believe it.

Right.

I believe that this really happened to me.

And if it doesn't make sense logically, then that I'm a crazy person who really believes that this happened.

Like I'm just narrating and I don't,

acknowledge that like there's a crowd there and I'm just, you know, and people are responding to it.

But I do break from it a lot.