Mary Lynn Rajskub

I mean,

Why are you doing stand up?

Like, what are you doing?

Like, it's such a you know, it's I'm torn because I love comedy so much.

And that's my first love.

But a lot of my people that buy tickets know me from 24.

Yeah.

So it's kind of awesome because I have to kind of bend their mind and take them somewhere that they weren't expecting to go.

And a lot of them maybe don't even ever go to comedy clubs.

But, you know, it's interesting to have that as your credit as you take the stage, like not really a funny show.

So it's, you know.

Well, honestly, I feel like I've just started doing stand-up because it's only within the past year or two that I've in earnest tried to write a joke.

Because when I was in college, I was going to school for painting and doing performance art.

And people would laugh at me, but I didn't know why they were laughing.

So I was always really...

And I would do something different every time.

And it didn't make any sense even really to me.

I think I was just kind of neurotically compelled to perform and got acting work for that.

But I was always sort of funny and weird as a persona.

And now I'm approaching it like.