Judd Apatow

Because what happens is when you look nervous, they lose faith in you.

And the reason why you bomb is not because the jokes are bad.

It's because they're just picking up this wide-eyed tank bomb energy.

And they see that you've lost your step and they don't trust you anymore.

And that happens with movies too.

In a lot of movies, if you have a lot of...

broad jokes in a row, if one bombs, usually the next few bomb too, because the audience goes, wait, do they know what they're doing?

Like a big visual joke or a really silly joke.

And if it doesn't work and the movie's just like hanging out there and it just ate it, it kills the next five minutes sometimes.

And I've had it where you cut that joke out

And suddenly the whole run murders because you lost that stumble.

Yeah.

And also, you know, Gary Shandling had journals when I did the documentary about him.

I read all his journals.

And he said, you know, they're not there...

to see a joke, like people go to see Elvis, they don't go to hear a song.

And so you have to be comfortable in your persona and your character.

They're coming to just be a part of the whole vibe of it.

It's not necessarily about any specific joke.

If you can get into your thing that's funny about you and be able to hang with it.