Joel Kim Booster

Especially early on. Exactly. You need to feel the wind a little bit to lead you through those moments of bombing, you know?

And I still a lot, but, you know, slightly less.

And I still a lot, but, you know, slightly less.

Yeah, it feels that way now, but like once you're there it will feel I know I just I you fascinate me like I was like that is so like to stay on subject stay on time I like go off book a lot and that wastes time right before my prepared material Well cuz like I'll tell you what like when I was coming up in New York again like very like a big time where a lot of people were trying to do stand-up and so I would wait like upwards of two hours to do 90 seconds of material at an open mic and

Yeah, it feels that way now, but like once you're there it will feel I know I just I you fascinate me like I was like that is so like to stay on subject stay on time I like go off book a lot and that wastes time right before my prepared material Well cuz like I'll tell you what like when I was coming up in New York again like very like a big time where a lot of people were trying to do stand-up and so I would wait like upwards of two hours to do 90 seconds of material at an open mic and

and like when you've got 90 seconds you learn what 90 seconds feels like and you learn how to get three jokes and three punch lines in get your word economy down and like and that is a skill set that i've kept with me and that i think like a lot of these a lot of i think that's like the big issue with some of the like tiktokers that we've talked about right yeah is they don't have that innate sense of like getting to the punchline exactly um it's very like

and like when you've got 90 seconds you learn what 90 seconds feels like and you learn how to get three jokes and three punch lines in get your word economy down and like and that is a skill set that i've kept with me and that i think like a lot of these a lot of i think that's like the big issue with some of the like tiktokers that we've talked about right yeah is they don't have that innate sense of like getting to the punchline exactly um it's very like

meandering and like sort of like telling a story but not writing punchlines around certain moments in the story it's just like oh like I saw this comic recently and I was just like this is a good interesting story but you've done nothing but tell the story what's your POV on what happened to you and tell me that and like that's what's missing I think from a lot of what I see in young comics today

meandering and like sort of like telling a story but not writing punchlines around certain moments in the story it's just like oh like I saw this comic recently and I was just like this is a good interesting story but you've done nothing but tell the story what's your POV on what happened to you and tell me that and like that's what's missing I think from a lot of what I see in young comics today

specifically the great british baking show and i'm so um i mean i got prue and paul and um we were in the english countryside in the the tent i need you to know i have butterflies and it was one of the most fun experiences i've ever had even though i kind of flopped the final um

specifically the great british baking show and i'm so um i mean i got prue and paul and um we were in the english countryside in the the tent i need you to know i have butterflies and it was one of the most fun experiences i've ever had even though i kind of flopped the final um

like hey but you made it i made it yeah uh everybody did but um it was like it was just like a one episode thing one yeah like and it was like marshall lynch me darcy carden um like it was putting you and marshall lynch i know i know it was crazy yeah um but i had a lot it was like so much fun and the thing is i was really reticent to do it because when they called me i was like I don't bake.

like hey but you made it i made it yeah uh everybody did but um it was like it was just like a one episode thing one yeah like and it was like marshall lynch me darcy carden um like it was putting you and marshall lynch i know i know it was crazy yeah um but i had a lot it was like so much fun and the thing is i was really reticent to do it because when they called me i was like I don't bake.

I've never baked day of my life. Yeah. Like I don't know that I could do that show. And they were like, listen, like this is not nailed it. Like we're not here to like see you flop. Like we don't want anyone to feel embarrassed. They have culinary producers on that show and they have them on the main show, too. And they aren't there to like do it for you. But it was a lot of like.

I've never baked day of my life. Yeah. Like I don't know that I could do that show. And they were like, listen, like this is not nailed it. Like we're not here to like see you flop. Like we don't want anyone to feel embarrassed. They have culinary producers on that show and they have them on the main show, too. And they aren't there to like do it for you. But it was a lot of like.

Hey, does this consistency look right? Can I put this in the oven now? And they'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I had a lot of help and a lot of prep time. I basically met with those producers beforehand, and they were like, so what would you want to bake if you could bake? And then we will sort of find a recipe that you can do that is close enough to what you have in your head.

Hey, does this consistency look right? Can I put this in the oven now? And they'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I had a lot of help and a lot of prep time. I basically met with those producers beforehand, and they were like, so what would you want to bake if you could bake? And then we will sort of find a recipe that you can do that is close enough to what you have in your head.

That's what I need. Yeah, and it was really great. And so I didn't actually practice ever, but I did watch the YouTube videos many times over. And yeah, I got a handshake from Paul in the first round.

That's what I need. Yeah, and it was really great. And so I didn't actually practice ever, but I did watch the YouTube videos many times over. And yeah, I got a handshake from Paul in the first round.

And that's all I really needed. That was the win for me.