Lewis Black

They, they wanted me to do, I mean, I was there.

11 o'clock, 10, 30, 11 o'clock.

I had a pretty good set.

They said, well, who do I talk to?

They said, oh, no, you've got to be the first five that are seen.

And I went, nobody, this is, are you shitting me?

I'm broke at the time.

And I have friends who are broke.

Now I've put together enough money to have my friends come so that to see if they think I'm psychotic doing, but I'm putting out a small fortune as far as I'm, I'm going broke to be there.

And the person's not there.

So I said, I'm not dealing with that.

So I found spaces around, uh, in part like the West bank eventually, uh,

Where before they were, I could go and just do stuff and not have to worry about, you know, bringing people or doing anything.

And as long as I wasn't making money, what difference did it make?

Sure.

When you...

Yeah, a lot of it came from working at the West Bank, because I would open...

I became comfortable on stage there because otherwise I was a wreck on stage.

I mean, it was, you gotta relax.

And I found that to be the toughest part.