Lucas Zelnick

And I think that kind of coincided with the moment that a lot of people were on TikTok discovering stand up comedy.

A lot of people that, you know, the pandemic was happening.

They had never been to a live show.

Maybe they were young.

Maybe they were under 21 years.

you know, when the pandemic started and then all of a sudden, you know, they could go to a live show when it ended.

So I got very lucky with that timing and that kind of people were really eating it up on the internet back then.

And that's when I started posting it.

As long as everyone's respectful, I don't really mind what they are expecting coming in.

I deliver what I want to deliver, and I understand that not everyone's going to want to come back.

If someone's bothering me or heckling me, I just shut it down right then and there, you know, and I'll have the club be pretty tight on it.

People in general get the vibe, I think, that they know that there's a difference between sort of being disruptive and interacting with me.

And I think sometimes people will leave the show and say,

I wish there was more crowd work because I don't do that much of it.

And other times people will go, wow, you know, I'm so glad I came because I didn't know if you had any jokes.

And then I saw the show and I love your jokes.

So I'm looking for those people because that's going to be what I do moving forward.

Like the more experience you get as a comedian, the more terrifying crowd work becomes.

When you're really bad, crowd work makes a lot of sense because you're like, anything's better than these terrible jokes that I've written about Hitler.

But then you get...