Lewis Black

Um, especially, and so, um, a lot, so I was introducing every show.

So there was no, um,

You take out the realm of, you don't have to worry about if you're funny.

So you can now be funny because nobody expects you to be funny.

That way.

And we would have a show at midnight on Saturdays that was free.

And, uh, and we, and Rusty would play music and, uh, the, he was the composer of the place and, uh, he would do, uh, these songs that were hysterical and also straight stuff.

I would do standup.

There were, um,

Warren Light, who eventually won Tony for his writing, he wanted to be a comic.

I wanted to be a playwright now.

Yeah, exactly.

It's really silly.

He was a terrific comic.

So they would come in, people would come in, and we did it for free because it was Studio 54 time.

There were all these places around town where none of my friends and especially actors and people in the business couldn't get in.

So the people would come pouring in there because it was free and we would do these shows.

And that was where I kind of honed the material.

And I'd go on stage with just pieces of the newspaper.

I'd have like 10 things that I ripped out of the newspaper and just go, no shit.