Shaun Murphy

A hundred percent.

It's such an amateur thing.

Like we've all been in love those early days of open mics where the comic like doesn't know how to write a joke.

So he immediately goes to like abortion and whatever, like controversial thing that's going to get like an ooh, because an ooh is better than a silence.

Yeah.

What are you talking about?

Just these made up built in excuses for jokes.

Yeah, although I have this thing... It's an observation.

What do you think about this?

I have this thing that every other art form watches their art and is inspired by it.

I feel like comedy is the only one that we're very... You watch a documentary about any filmmaker and they'll be like, oh, I stole that shot from Godfather.

It was a good shot.

I just kind of took that.

And in comedy, it's like, you have a joke about a microphone?

Pryor did a microphone joke in 77.

And you're like...

Who gives a fuck?

That's all art.

Yeah.

And I know there's a thin line between influence and stealing, but I think sometimes people go...