Lucas Zelnick

Like, you know, if the audience wants something, you, you're an entertainer, you give them that, you give them what they want for the most part.

Now you, you want to take them to interesting places.

Like you don't want to just listen to what they want all the time.

You want to try and push them a little bit, but if you're getting pushed back, you got to listen to that.

So

You know, when someone's funnier than me, I guess like I just let them be that for as long as they can.

And then I'll comment on that.

But I try to comment on what I perceive the reality to be in the room when I'm commenting on it.

And if I want to be doing jokes, I'll be doing jokes.

If someone's interrupting that, that's a problem.

I've never had it happen that someone's being like really disruptive and annoying and the audience likes them better than me.

But if that happened, I guess I'd be at a bit of an impasse there.

That would mean I'm probably really bombing.

Like the audience usually takes your side unless you're bombing, you know, you're bombing hard.

Oh, bombing is so much, so much stronger than killing.

Because at this point, killing, I mean, you know, your ceiling, what you think is a kill always changes.

The same with a bomb, by the way.

Like, you know, when you're starting out, you, you know, what you think is a kill would probably now be a bomb for me all these years later.

But killing feels like the job.

You know what I mean?