Jeff Dye

So many times people are like, are you doing this because you want to be a movie star?

I'm like, no.

I'm doing it because I love stand-up comedy.

I just watched the Starting Five.

It's called Starting Five on Netflix, but they follow NBA players.

And the annoying part is their wives and girlfriends.

I think that's the annoying part.

I want to hear them talk about...

basketball, like the thing they love.

That inspires me because I look at the way I pursue comedy, the way they pursue their basketball, you know, like their career.

So anyways, but what I was inspired by was like Kevin Durant, who I thought I hated my whole life, was awesome.

He just wants to play basketball.

like that's all it is for him he's like yeah i'm i just want to go out there and hoop and he keeps going to that thing of like man i don't want to have these arguments in barbershops about the greatest ever or any of those things i he makes money but it's not about the money for him and it's not about the chicks those are all symptoms of what he pursues and i love that because i'm like yeah i just love the joke part i love that i can write a bit

And then that night, try it, and people love it, or they go, what an interesting idea, or that's funny, or that's naughty.

I've never thought of it like that.

When you're campaigning on a political trail or whatever, like when you go to the Trump rally, or I don't know what Kamala Harris called her thing, but those aren't undecided voters.

Those are people who are there because they're already in.

You're not even talking to anyone who's considering voting for anyone else when you go to a thing like that.

But with stand-up comedy, when they're in that audience, they're just looking at you and going, Hey, bro, bring me some jokes.

And so I can now do jokes about what I think and what I believe, and the crowd will listen to me and decide if I'm not funny or funny.