Joe DeRosa
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probably freak them out that people talk like this like jesus christ you guys are at work and you talk like this this is crazy it's why comics get i've seen people get very offended who aren't comics that get brought into a green room right and the comics are kind of ignoring them or making it very clear we don't want you in here yeah and people think that that's the comics thinking who the fuck they are it's not it's like guys we have a thing we do you're not part of it you're not going to understand it and i've seen more than once somebody get offended by something we're saying who shouldn't have been in here in the first it's usually someone's
Once in 1968, a man got offended in a green room.
I mean, is there anything worse?
And what you're describing is, you know, it's quintessential Rod Serling shit.
It's when people's – it comes down to survival because eventually – that to me is what the technique is and how you get it to keep working in your favor if you're the asshole at the top of the food chain, right?
You say if I make people desperate enough, they will do desperate things to keep –
the situation that they feel now privileged to have or lucky to have.
And you get people, did you ever see that Twilight Zone where the guy has the bunker?
And he tells the neighbors, I keep telling you, build a nuclear bunker.
They're all making fun of him.
And then the thing comes over the radio as they're talking at dinner.
There are nuclear missiles on the way, whatever.
And he goes to his bunker and they're all at his door, like let us in.