Dana Gould

That was his life.

Happy as a clam.

You know, it's like if you go to the same factory and you pay your rent and then when you're not working, you're just sitting around eating Doritos wanting to kill yourself.

That's not great.

Yeah.

The summer of 1983, I bagged groceries at the Stop and Shop in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

I was at the same time on an HBO comedy special called Campus Comedy that I did as a freshman in college.

I would be bagging people's groceries and they would recognize me from being on TV the night before.

It was awful.

And I really hated it.

And it would, yeah, I would start, see, I would start dreading going back to work the minute I got out of work.

And when you dream about your job, when it seeps into your unconscious, that's the worst thing.

But, you know, in terms of comedy, like before we started, you and I were talking about Albert Brooks.

And one of my favorite jokes from the movie, Defending Your Life.

I came up with all nude.

You know, Albert Brooks is not Steve Martin.

Right.

But I think he's funnier.

It's just one of those things.

Albert didn't sit and go, how do I not become successful?