Judd Apatow

And you would bomb and you would have terrible nights.

I'm amazed that I kept going because it was brutal.

But I had talked to so many comedians by that point and they just said, that's part of it.

So I thought, I'm bombing, but I'm in it.

This is it.

We're doing it.

So I got kind of excited even after a bomb that I was entering the business.

Yeah, because every joke...

is something that you're adding to your act.

So, you know, I have a set that I do, and then I'll think of something, maybe it's a line, maybe it's a story, and I'll try to do a new joke.

And if it works, then I put it on the, it works pile.

And every night you're doing things at work and then you're trying to figure out if you have the courage to do the experimental part because it kills your set sometimes.

So say you're really funny for 10 minutes and then you think, I'm gonna go into that new story that just happened.

And then maybe it works, maybe you eat it.

And now you have to go back into your real set and win them back and hope they forget this little side path of trying to discover new material.

I think I still have it.

Because my frontal lobe shuts down when I get nervous.

There are some people who get a kick out of not doing well.

So they don't get nervous when they start bombing because they find it amusing on some level.

Yeah, exactly.