Eric André

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Do you ever do the thing where you think the riff is going to take you and then you go up there and the first thing you say bombs and then it just completely.

That was the other night.

I remember doing that.

I was on the road with Nate fucking like 15 years ago and he watched me do that and he went, you committed the thing where you thought the riff was going to open up everything and then you bombed.

Because you miss on that one and then you just go like, fuck.

That was the first open mic you did?

That's what you imagine.

Every open mic, every person that imagines an open mic imagines that it's a sold out theater and there's like red curtains on and that a guy over the God, Mike brings you up when you don't know it is one of the saddest experiences of your life.

You are in a room with people that don't want to hear you talk.

He pulls out the gun and he goes, if this is going to upset you, you need to leave.

I started in Tucson at a club called Laughs.

And what they would do is, it was smart what they did.

They'd do the open mic from 7 to 8 p.m.

And then there'd be a pro show at 8 p.m.

So if you went on late in the open mic, you were going on in front of people.

You were going on.