Michelle Obama

And the people that are there, like, you know, the people who have always, um, supported me and, and been very like, um,

nurturing and even how I get to a story or how I tell a joke or something like that.

What do you mean?

So I think that there are some times when you have a political story, especially a story that no one knows anything about, right?

So we're going to talk about today.

what's happening in the Congo.

And then as an American audience, you're not necessarily up on what's happening in the Congo.

So we have to tell you everything that's happening as quickly as possible and then bring you up to speed so that we can get to the thing that happened that might be funny or is really important or interesting, right?

And so I think that there is a way that I try to approach a story angle by angle that I think, at least when I look back at it, they were very...

once again, nurturing in helping me craft that to be something for the show.

So it wasn't just a long aside.

It was like how we were going to tell some of the story, like a piece of the story.

And so that really opened my mind towards, even in my own standup, how to talk about something that people had no frame of reference for and how to make a take and an approach more universal.

And so I think that that was like,

integral towards everything that I've been doing.

I think it's a little bit of both.

I think that, to me, I look at the way, like I said before, the way my grandma would tell a story.

And how it was very important to her that you knew exactly...

how the cashier sounded when she said this to her.

And then it was also very important.