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But I don't believe...
There's a bad time to start anything in life.
As a gentleman who's a little bit older, I know this.
We started this later on in life.
But you started stand-up comedy at 29.
But explain where you got your actual start in comedy and who you were working for.
Because I think this is an amazingly ballsy and awesome story.
So you're the H, you're like, if people have problems or there's an issue in the workplace or someone's getting harassed or something, they would come to you and file a report?
Well, I mean, like, isn't it weird?
Like, Netflix is the place to go to for comedy these days.
It used to be an HBO, you get an HBO special, right?
One hour every month on HBO.
They'd, you know, spotlight some huge comedian, but there wasn't a lot of places to cut your teeth.
You know, Comedy Central may be one of those places.
Um, but then how do you like, isn't that your goal is to, I want a Netflix special.
Eventually that's what I really want to do.
Did you find it hard to be working at the company where you wanted to impress the people we're going to give comedy specials or did you like dance around it?
Here's an interesting story.
So Chrissy and I met at a large radio conglomerate.