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you wouldn't play before have ever written one before to
knock not have you ever been in a play
eighth-grade kept not that's insane
your include I don't know what I'm doing
a arm you don't even know a hard decision
now you know I had no intention to being in this thing
when I wrote it I just got this I idea that I liked
on I had this I wanted
I have the notion writing a play for a while but it wasn't something that I was
obsessed with or even thinking about
on a daily basis or at all I started writing and a
I wrote it and as with most things I write
the main characters sounded exactly like me what a coincident
so he's the sort of the same character that we've seen in
same character different name yeah as a minute
yeah in same iliad on
scott rudin the producer he's the emailed me I heard you were playing
on like to read
whatever size 10 to 20 min the was very interested in like that
so will you you have to do this as I
we talkin I can't do this not an actor you know
because yep this is you you have to do it the audience is going to want you to
do it
they know it's you you know not fooling anybody
in and then you know he appealed to my massive ego
and a there there you go
like eight I said okay now days gone by they haven't regretted that the
now one day yeah so you started seeing a we'll
was that so you always want to do with you the class cut up in school you the
funny kid were you the one that
no now I wasn't funny at all
a you know I wasn't broken
you know when you grow up with people who you've known since you were six or
seven years old
there's a dynamic that a
that you kinda stuck in in a way so
with these people who I still know I'm the same one funny person that I was
when I was 6
until and then I went to college
well a at eighteen so I had a particular personality
in broken with these guys these friend my family my relatives
I was this person was not funny there was nothing funny about me I did the guy
was moaning
a nobody ever left anything I said I never said anything fun
and then all the sudden I went to I went to a downtown college I knew I wanted to
get away I have to get away
and and suddenly
people started laughing at me and I'll go with her
health what's going on you know one guy particular became my best friend
men on men you know all the sudden up part of me that I didn't even know
existed
now started to emerge and it was
it was it was something I was quite startled by it and
I still don't think about becoming a comedian that didn't enter my mind
I was raised to think that there was
I could do anything tonight
grown don't get your hopes up okay
I were
for I remember one day
for one time I I was just in from my mother well
you know what the what I might wanna be Azhagiri like sports me like the sports
announcers yugos
you're not special you not gonna be at the fourth I
no shoes wanna be a mailman
really but that was our dream I
sobbing be a comedian didn't occur to me
then I got a college and
my friends white
kept saying you know you're funny white why are you doing
stand-up comedy because I was floundering a
Charles likely chip yes yeah
you know that that's is nicknamed chip
I why I said to rabbi was before my nephew's Bar Mitzvah it said the
7 what's your name I is there with you by name I said
a I said I don't know but you can call me chip I
so but anyway so she's
you know she was encouraging me to do it and I went to the Improv
in to watch a a a show a night of comedy
means getting it in mmm
in I hope this happens during my Broadway play that's good
wasn't so I want to watch a night of common as I'm watching an ongoing
side you know what I think I could do this and the Middle the show I walk up
to but
treatment was the manager the club the owner of the club and I say a
I'd like to go on yeah
like how insane is that I wanna go on
I have nothing okay I've never been on a stage
I wanna go on thank God
he said who are you no of course not you can't go on
gotta addition okay so then I wrote the material and
I started China doing
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