Mike Maxwell

That's good for you, too.

Like, the people that want to step on that person to elevate themselves, like, you're just ruining your own life.

You're missing the big picture.

And it's not necessary.

It's not necessary even in a competitive environment, even in something you're competing.

Like, your friends, these people that you're competing with, they help you.

They really do.

It's almost a necessity.

I think it's a necessity with comedy for sure.

I always say this, that no great comedy exists in a vacuum.

I mean, there's people that have talent that are in the middle of nowhere in some real small local scene and they could become a great comic one day, but they're not going to on their own.

Yeah.

They have to be around great comics.

They can't just see them on YouTube.

They got to see like Dave Attell live.

You know, you got to see something like that where you're like, whoa, you know, you got to see Colin Quinn live.

You got to see these people that are masters and see the thing that they do and get inspired by it.

Yeah.

And to start to learn it, like understand the process.

Like that's the same thing for me.