Jason Bateman

So since I talk slower and I was from the South and all this, I had to figure out, because I would follow high-energy acts, and then I'd come up and I'm like, well, I got to...

come up with a joke or I got to say something.

I just need you to hear my voice for a second so you can go like, all right, readjust and be like, now we're in this rhythm and then get into the first kind of, you know, come up with a good like opening little thing or whatever and just get rolling.

Well, I don't go up.

Yeah, I go up prepared.

I mean, I can't do the other.

I can't really do like crowd work and go up and stuff.

He's not freestyling, bro.

Oh, yeah.

This new hour, I've switched it a ton.

It's worked because now I'm opening on a joke that I've closed on.

So it's great to be opening on a joke that I've actually had the energy and the rhythm of a closer, and then you just move it up, and now it's the front.

And you're doing those decisions on the fly.

Yeah, you just fill it out.

It's kind of like a song.

I'm in love with stand-up right now.

I love it so much.

The way I've looked at writing, it's a movie.

So I'm the main character of this movie.

And I'm telling a story.