Rob Riggle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Went to improv, loved it.
Got confidence on stage and then came back to stand-up later.
That's pretty much the exact same thing I did.
When I first did the stand-up, I literally just – I didn't know where to begin.
I was in the Marines and I got myself to New York and I said, OK, I'm going to start chasing this dream.
And I literally went to a stand-up club in my neighborhood on the Upper East Side, Comic Strip Live.
And in the window, it said classes.
So I was like, this is where it starts.
So I walked in and took the classes.
Eight weeks.
The guy hated teaching.
He was over it.
He was like, three jokes per minute.
Set up punch, set up punch.
I was like, but Eddie Murphy tells stories, and that's not three jokes per minute.
He's like, you're not Eddie Murphy.
So I hated it.
I hated it.
I got up and did five minutes of garbage.
But going through the UCB, it gave me so much more confidence.