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Michelle Obama

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IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

integral towards everything that I've been doing.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

I think it's a little bit of both.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

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

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

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

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

how the cashier sounded when she said this to her.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And then it was also very important.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Like, there were aspects of the story that were important to her that if you were just telling it straight up, you would leave out because it wasn't the most direct way there.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And then also, you know, my mom...

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

was a special ed teacher for years and then she became a librarian.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And so, you know, she would pick me up and, uh, after school and then take me to the library with her a lot of days.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And that, that's how I got like such a love and interest for things that are like really obscure.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Cause you're just, you're just in the library in general.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And unless somebody checks out the book you were reading yesterday that you decide not to check out, you have that, but you also have all these options.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Right.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And then, um,

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And then my dad was like a paraprofessional that worked with kids with special needs and everything in the classroom and stuff.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And so I think all those things coming together gave me, I would say, like a love and interest for people, but also an approach to storytelling and hopefully thinking that was unique from my experiences and everything.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

And so I think the people learning something along the way is sometimes incidental from how best I feel like I should cover the thing so that you understand how funny this thing is, if that makes sense.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

I have before.

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
No One Tells You to Be a Comedian with Josh Johnson

Yeah, so when I joined Daily Show, that's like the most diverse room I had ever been in and everything.