Comedy is the only profession where love from a stranger is better than love from a family member. You need to perform for strangers to see if you're really funny. If they laugh and cheer, it's the greatest thing in the world.
Open mics are a great way to rework your material to see what punchlines land best.
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars.
I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.
I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.
Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.
I know what I want to talk about, but I don't really know what's funny about a joke until I perform it in front of an audience.
