Dave Chappelle

I don't know him, but he knows him.

He said, he said, it's a person that's funny for money.

He goes, you're going to be one of those.

And I thought about that, I think about it every once in a while, I'll think about it, because he's long passed away, God rest his soul, but whatever he saw in me that day, he saw it so clear that it scares me to think back at it.

I'm like, so did I choose this, or did I?

But when I finally did do stand-up, to me, it felt like a lifetime.

It was only six years, from eight to 14 when I started.

14, wow.

which didn't seem crazy at the time.

Yesterday, I got a text message from a comedian I started out with.

He's kind of a famous guy, Patton Oswalt.

Yeah, yeah.

He sent me a video that one of his fans has sent him.

And I couldn't understand.

They were in some, like, dilapidated room.

And then he pans over, and I look, and it's the stage that we had both started on.

On 14th and L, Northwest.

Ironically, drumroll please, it's a gay club now.

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Yeah, but it gave me chills just to see it because it all happened so fast.