Raanan Hershberg

I'm like that. How does it go? People bring that up like, oh yeah, why did I stop doing that joke and then I'll start doing it again? I know. It's weird. It's tough. I did an hour, released an hour a couple months ago and so I'm trying to work out a new hour. It's tough when you have that because there's

A lot of jokes you just probably don't care about that much, but you need it in there just for the, you know. Right, right, right. It's like scaffolding, you know.

but if you're listening if you're not those people everybody else you should write yeah because you can go back and not forget that i have a whole my bookshelf looks like seven you know where he has all the notebooks yeah that's great it's all just you know crazy manifestos and jokes yeah i think that's it's like one of the things that i found when i had to do this live special was that i had a really

I know. It's like whenever I've done late night, I start really analyzing the jokes and cutting them and be like, oh, if I did this all the time, I'd be pretty good. Yeah. that word does not work there, but it's just because I'm doing it on late nights. So I'm like, but then normally I'm like, whatever.

I know, but you can only technically practice on stage. That's the weird thing. It's like... You can, but you can prepare offstage. Yeah. You got, yeah. I, uh... Yeah, no, I mean, I think it's really important to write everything down and go back to it so you don't lose anything. You can forget things. Yeah, especially as you get older.

I released my SIDS bit. You can do it.

You got it, yeah. It's important to be organized. Yeah, for sure.

It's a weird job, because it's just you. Uh-huh. And it's just how ... Even advice doesn't typically work, because ... Every comedian, when they give advice, they're really just giving it that works for them. And you don't know if it works for your voice or how you... So you're just alone. And you have to create your own system.

No. And if anything, I mean, there's some good advice. I mean, when I was starting out, I got a couple, you know, look around the audience, keep the mic out of the standard stuff. But like once you get into real advice, I don't know. I think it just gets in your head for the most part. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's terrible.

He was like the first comic recording of sets.

Yeah, I think that advice is great. Definitely writing a lot and definitely listen to your sense is so important because there's so many comics that go up all the time, but they're delusional and they don't get better because they're not realizing that it's not working.

Exactly. But stuff about how to say shit and all that, or your style, some of that, I feel like you're kind of alone a little. 100%.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's never advice from the great. It's always some weird person, some like. Kind of grifty. Yeah, it's grifty. And someone would be like, what? You're not a comedian.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's a good, I would love to hear that stuff.

Impossible. It's still impossible to understand. Yeah, a lot of it, right? I listened to him. It was a different time where saying Yiddish was really hip. Right. Lenny? Yeah, you know the Meshuggah guys on the street.

Some of the most groundbreaking stuff feels the most dated later because it is so groundbreaking that everyone, the model changed.

But it seems, yeah. No, it's like that musical Oklahoma seems like such a standard thing. But at the time it was super experimental. It was the first one where they had like not a chorus on stage right away or someone singing and a narrative. Like musicals before that were reviews. And you're like, I switched it to musicals. You're like, go back to comedy. No, musicals are cool. I love musicals.

But it was groundbreaking at the time. A narrative story. Mustachioed before that was like reviews. And they broke a lot of rules. But now it's just Oklahoma. But it was like an experimental thing at the time.

Yeah. No, it is the most watched movie. I read a book about the making recently. It was interesting. Yeah. Did you know that... So... Judy Garland was groped by a lot of the little people on the movie. It's like a whole thing, she got groped. And I read it, apparently they were mad. All the little people were very drunk and wild.