Dan Soder

Now I like, I'm doing the Louis CK thing where you,

Jerk off at work.

No, where you... It's effective.

It is very effective.

No, he told me like, he goes, start out with the... And he says this publicly, like start out with like the...

A tried and true joke.

Start with an old joke that works just to get your footing so the audience can put their shoulders down and go, okay, this guy has jokes that work.

And then walk without a tightrope.

Rates may vary.

I was, the other night when I bombed, I just was like, only new material that I hadn't even said out loud, and I was like, forgetting half the fucking bed.

I was like, shit, you guys ever, fuck, wait a minute.

Do you ever...

No, yeah.

The very first open mic I ever did in New York City, I'd been doing comedy a year in Boston in college.

I was 24.

21 years old, was with Nate Bergazzi.

I moved to New York like a couple years after 9-11.

It was 2011.

four okay September or October of 2004 I was finishing college I was interning at Matador Records downtown that's awesome for my because I was a music business major at Berkeley and fucking I was doing an open mic and I was like I told everybody at work like I'm gonna do this open mic in New York City I think I

This is like, I thought I was going to be like on stage, like on stage in front of 3000 people.