Donnell Rawlings

But you came back stronger.

I'll give another example, like the same situation with Dave in Comedy Central and shit.

As much as he went through that, he took a 12-year hiatus or whatever you want to say.

People would just show up and he would just do street performances.

But you know what was kind of where he got it from?

You've heard of a comic, I'm pretty sure of it.

Charlie Barnett?

100%.

Yeah, we played Charlie Barnett on the show.

I knew Charlie.

Charlie was like, if you ever thought you were funny...

This is what the art of only people I've ever known that got certain levels of success were Charlie Barnett and Michael Collier when he used to live in his beach.

But people don't understand how Charlie Barnett would like to go to a park, go to the center of Washington Square Park.

And you gotta gather around a bunch of people in a circle.

It's a certain technique.

Not only that, you gotta hold their attention for one joke.

You gotta get them involved, and you build this audience up, and then it's really for one joke.

A lot of people don't know that Charlie got Saturday Night Live, but he couldn't read.

Yeah, he couldn't, and that's what opened up the door.

But he was so gangster.