Hasan Minhaj

You got to be really good at becoming an opening act.

So you need to figure out 15 killer minutes that you can do in front of any, you can do it in front of Mike Epps.

You can do it in front of Gabriel Iglesias.

You can play any room.

You can play a white room.

You can play a black room.

You can play a casino.

And then you have to move to a city where there's a ton of clubs.

So then I moved to San Francisco, you know, and I get a day job and I'm just pursuing and I just took it one monkey bar at a time.

And what I really loved about it, and I've come to now I've been doing comedy 20 plus years, but it really did save my life because the whole art form in and of itself is completely made up.

You know, comedians, if you think about it, if you want to be a working comedian, we're

we're below magicians, but we're above clowns.

Yeah, right.

You know?

Like, if you can do magic, I'm very impressed.

Right.

I'm like, I tip my hat to that.

David Copperfield, if you're a clown, I have zero respect for you.

Like, I think you're terrifying.

I think you are using people's fear against them.