Judd Apatow

Does that make sense?

Yeah, because I guess more in the modern era, musicians are trying to build the great concert, right?

So if you have those...

10 good songs, some people could get away with five or three, you could sell out shows or do well for your whole life.

I had a friend tell me once who's in a band that if they can get one song off of every album that the audience demands to hear, that's a big deal.

But you're writing the body of work

and you're making money off of it, and you're performing, and you're touring off of it, and you could play your biggest hit, and the place will always go crazy.

So it's like you've built this thing that grows.

You're like Springsteen, and like, oh, I can do Born to Run.

Yeah, where in comedy movies and TV, you have zero.

You just start over, and you're like, well, I hope you like this one.

Well, that's a big question for stand-up comedy, which is, should you do specials so often?

You know, Jay Leno was always famous because he never did a special, because he was of the belief, and a lot of the comedians from the 60s were like this, that you just develop this set for your whole life.

It's just one set.

And so Don Rickles had basically the same set his entire life.

And there were tons of people.

And maybe it grew.

And maybe as they got older, there was more time that they could choose from.

But they didn't put it on TV in a way that wiped it away.

Where with comedians, people think...