Donnell Rawlings

I wanna do the mainstream stuff.

I wanna do these other things, right?

And Barry Katz, Dave used to host this comedy night at this place called El Flamingos in New York.

And Barry Katz saw me there one day.

He was like, I don't think I've ever seen a comedian that go in front of an audience that were ready to rip someone's head off.

and you could hear silence.

You know, that's the control I had with the audience.

So we built sort of a respect for each other.

And I remember one time I was at the Comedy Cellar, and he was there, and I knew that he was, back then, whatever you want to say about him, nobody had a roster bigger than Barry Katz.

back then in like 97 or whatever, he had everybody.

The list goes on and on.

And I knew he was a fan of mine, and I said, Barry, man, I'm trying to work these clubs, these mainstream clubs, but I'm having a hard time getting past these clubs.

I was like, could you make a phone call or whatever for me?

And he looked at me, he said, Donnell, he said,

This is what you do.

I'll probably do the worst.

Everybody does a better Barry Ketchum.

Yes.

Okay, I'll try it again.

And slow it down.