Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en and how did you get good like when did you go from suck to non-suck like because everybody starts i believe that suck that’s like the pixar way i don’t know if you’ve heard this before pixar is a philosophy which is all movies start at suck our job is to like remove the suck yeah so there’s non-suck left at the end yeah yeah so i took that approach man the daily show changed my life man seeing the way jon stewart worked and especially that institution both daily show and snl love them hate them they’re part of their comedy institutions snl for 50 years now a daily show 25 you know that um are these pedigree boot camps for understanding the process about how to think about comedy right and one of the things that i realized is what john taught me and trevor showed me you know john really unlocked the code but it’s like it’s all about your take what is your take and being able to back it up so it’s not even being funny first it’s what is the take what am i trying to say what is the take what am i philosophically artistically trying to say and um let’s give an example you had in the show last night you’re like you met this guy who’s a private equity guy you’re like what the [ ] is that yeah he’s like oh yeah we do like lbos you’re like yeah yeah what is the leverage we’ll as you get to the bottom of your like so you use other people’s money to buy other people’s companies and you ruin the people’s lives in them by firing them and gutting them making them profitable and then you flip it to somebody else yeah you’re like yeah i’m not cool with that like yeah i think that’s a little bit of a [ ] up way to win is to like yeah this is kind of like vulture just legal stealing yeah yeah yeah yeah that was never your money also it’s it’s it’s stealing well it’s legal oh just just because legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical right you know bill cosby got off legally right we all know what it is and so like that is what the joke i would start with that’s my take around leverage buyouts and vulture funds right then you start tagging it you can do that bill cosby tag he got off legally it’s not right you know we all know it’s on ethical what he did or whatever the glove didn’t fit o.j yeah right right so you must go ahead okay and then you start tagging and then the funny just starts flowing from there and then you go that’s like this and then you can just what are you doing you’re sitting in a room with like a few people you’re just spitballing riffing bantering just like that yeah and then eventually you got to put pen to paper right and you got to start writing the act one and you start to see when i watch weekend update or when i see an act one on the daily show or any of those desk segments i now see the matrix i now see oh i know how to construct a seven and a half minute piece right last week tonight patriot act i know how to do a 27 minute piece on it right i know the beats and the flow of that and what was really cool was it just gave me that that central kind of like philosophy how do i do this and so the first 10 11 12 years of my career i was just trying to be funny and what john in 2014 really helped me unlock was like no no you need to have like um there needs to be an actual process and purpose to what you do now i’m not saying this as a virtue thing no just you just need to be like even if you’re doing dick jokes or even if you’re being silly there needs to be you need to understand the game and how to heighten it comedically right even stupid silly jokes you know are are like that and so that was the unlock for me and then just reps trying to get as good as possible now my my next thing that i’m just working on the most is the jazz part of it like yo just have fun that’s always been one of my weaknesses because like i told you like i’m a kumon kid you’re structured and so and so we’re so built around fear and so there’s these moments that i try to have on stage i don’t know if you saw us it’s like i’m just kind of unhinged like the first like three or four minutes of the set when i’m just i’m literally just riffing yeah when i was making fun of the kids shorts there was a kid in the front row of the show just short shorts the eyes were just like all up on the chair and then like the seats in the back and you know seeing people come in late and then riffing off of that it’s pure jazz now jazz has structure but there’s also play right and then you can go back to it and like it’s that organized chaos that i’m trying to like start to tap into