Lewis Black

And it really is a different – a lot of them built an audience immediately, which is really –

I mean, I literally walked on stage and was thanks for risking your life.

That was the first thing I said to the audience.

I had no idea what my opening line would be, but I knew we were fucked.

And it was coming at a thousand miles an hour.

And then it was like, do you want to fly through Chicago?

No, that's the first place that somebody got it.

I'm an idiot.

And then what was interesting was to then do the, um,

to do the bookend.

So the second one was after the pandemic, you know, when I can do it after the pandemic.

And, and then, and I wanted to do that because I felt that the two of them together, basically I'd never done anything like this, where it was just, it was out of just a historical context.

Who the fuck, here's a historical fucking comedy thing.

Louis flag presents the civil war.

It was crazy.

Yeah.

But some of the stuff that the blowback I got over things I said, it was like, just stop it.

OK, I was talking about how it affected me because I went on the road afterwards and I thought I'm going to just paddle a while.

I'm going to basically just talk about how I respond to the pandemic, which was not good.

I did not handle it well.