Trevor Noah
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I said, I work Monday to Friday at the Daily Show.
And then Friday nights, I leave immediately, go do a show Friday, Saturday, and then Sunday.
And then Monday, I'm back at the Daily Show.
And I genuinely thought he was going to be like, yeah, good for you.
And Chris looked at me in that classic Chris Rock way.
And he said, I'll never forget it.
He said, you're going to be the worst comedian ever.
Yeah.
He's like, you are going to be the worst comedian ever.
I was like, what do you mean?
And then he said, comedy comes from life.
You ain't living.
He's like, you can't make comedy doing comedy.
And I was like, oh, shit.
And we had a conversation about understanding that art is inspired by life.
And so-
To be responsible as an artist is to live away from the art so that the art can become better.
And so in a way, it made me trick myself into learning that not doing it is working towards doing it.
No, I just go like, I have no, I don't hold it on me.
I don't go like, I should be, I could be.