Rafi Bastos

I had my own talk show on TV, like a daily talk show.

I was like Jimmy Kimmel in Brazil for a while.

But I moved here and I'm like, people don't have to know this.

I just want to step on stage.

I don't want people to think about credential, what I did or what I didn't do.

Because, and also I felt like, I see a lot of like, I wouldn't say all comics, but most international comics who come to this country end up in my vicinity, in my atmosphere.

Somehow they cross paths with me.

mainly the ones who don't speak English Irish and Australian they speak English that's not a thing but like people from South America people from I don't know Russia and all those places Germany they all end up close to me and most of those comics they get frustrated really soon because you're famous in your country you have an audience and then here you send a message to the booker of the stand-up New York and he doesn't answer and you're like

What am I doing here?

I'm already two months in this country.

I don't have any spots scheduled.

What am I going to do?

And that happened with me in the beginning.

But I was so focused on making this happen that I never second-guessed myself.

No, but here's the thing, Marc.

In my country for years, I would step on stage and everybody knew who I was.

So the experience was a completely different thing.

So coming here and bombing in the beginning, it was like, that's awesome.

It made me excited.

I was like, this is amazing.