1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:02,020 - It's a thing where you really wanna 2 00:00:02,020 --> 00:00:03,300 try to find a way to stand out. 3 00:00:03,300 --> 00:00:05,740 Or you wanna find a way to have people care 4 00:00:05,740 --> 00:00:07,604 or be emotionally tied to what you're doing. 5 00:00:07,604 --> 00:00:11,521 (lighthearted xylophone music) 6 00:00:13,540 --> 00:00:14,870 One of the things that I noticed in the beginning 7 00:00:14,870 --> 00:00:16,730 when I was doing comedy was, 8 00:00:16,730 --> 00:00:19,030 if you have the ability to film something, 9 00:00:19,030 --> 00:00:20,750 you have the ability to get something out there. 10 00:00:20,750 --> 00:00:21,900 There's very little excuse 11 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:24,160 because your phones have a camera in them. 12 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,860 And the editing software's in there too. 13 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:27,880 So if you have an idea, you can create it. 14 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,000 You could fail, you can learn from those mistakes 15 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,300 and you can keep growing. 16 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:32,710 At the beginning, I couldn't do that. 17 00:00:32,710 --> 00:00:34,480 I had to hire someone with a camera. 18 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:36,830 Ask a director or an editor to do me a favor. 19 00:00:36,830 --> 00:00:38,100 But now, you can teach yourself 20 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:39,150 really how to put stuff together 21 00:00:39,150 --> 00:00:40,270 and highlight things that you're good at 22 00:00:40,270 --> 00:00:41,320 and kinda find your voice. 23 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,990 I did stuff for Funny or Die or a place called Super Deluxe. 24 00:00:43,990 --> 00:00:47,960 Now there's just a thousand ways for you to be creative. 25 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,605 So if you have ideas and you wanna show people 26 00:00:49,605 --> 00:00:52,350 or try your comedy out in different ways, 27 00:00:52,350 --> 00:00:54,160 there's a billion outlets to do it. 28 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,140 I think this is like a very interesting, 29 00:00:57,140 --> 00:00:58,160 in terms of business, 30 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,970 the streaming wars, I guess they're calling them. 31 00:00:59,970 --> 00:01:01,510 It's gonna be very interesting to see what happens 32 00:01:01,510 --> 00:01:03,130 'cause it is a part of entertainment 33 00:01:03,130 --> 00:01:04,810 that will change entertainment. 34 00:01:04,810 --> 00:01:05,790 I think there's good and there's bad. 35 00:01:05,790 --> 00:01:08,090 One of the good things that comes from it is like uh, 36 00:01:08,090 --> 00:01:10,137 Parks and Rec, which I did 21 episodes in. 37 00:01:10,137 --> 00:01:12,656 "Thank God my grandfather just died so I am 38 00:01:12,656 --> 00:01:16,710 ♪ a-flushed with cash ♪ 39 00:01:16,710 --> 00:01:19,790 It went on Netflix and then it had a whole second life 40 00:01:19,790 --> 00:01:21,610 where I found like different people were coming up to me, 41 00:01:21,610 --> 00:01:23,770 younger kids, my friends kids were coming up to me 42 00:01:23,770 --> 00:01:24,603 and stuff like that. 43 00:01:24,603 --> 00:01:26,150 So I think there's such greatness in that. 44 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:28,860 But, there's so much happening now 45 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:30,710 that it's so easy to get lost. 46 00:01:30,710 --> 00:01:33,550 Television shows can get lost, movies can get lost, 47 00:01:33,550 --> 00:01:34,980 comedy specials can get lost. 48 00:01:34,980 --> 00:01:36,410 So I think because there's so much content 49 00:01:36,410 --> 00:01:40,310 and there's about to be six or seven more places to see it, 50 00:01:40,310 --> 00:01:42,480 it's hard to stand out a little bit. 51 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:43,790 But you're hope is that 52 00:01:43,790 --> 00:01:45,560 good content will always rise to the top. 53 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,600 If you wanna create stuff, create stuff. 54 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,110 If you wanna write, write. 55 00:01:49,110 --> 00:01:50,360 You wanna write a movie? 56 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:51,410 Try writing a movie. 57 00:01:51,410 --> 00:01:52,560 If you wanna write a television show, try. 58 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,100 You gotta go for it. 59 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:55,480 Because when you write your first script, 60 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:56,460 it aint gonna be perfect. 61 00:01:56,460 --> 00:01:57,720 It's gonna be probably pretty shitty. 62 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:58,820 When I was freelancing for Letterman, 63 00:01:58,820 --> 00:01:59,730 my jokes were too long. 64 00:01:59,730 --> 00:02:00,790 I had to learn how to shorten 'em. 65 00:02:00,790 --> 00:02:02,083 When I was writing sketches, I would meander 66 00:02:02,083 --> 00:02:03,850 instead of hitting the game and getting out of it. 67 00:02:03,850 --> 00:02:05,780 Or doing improv, I would say too many jokes 68 00:02:05,780 --> 00:02:08,180 as opposed to being in the scene and listening. 69 00:02:08,180 --> 00:02:09,013 When I'm writing movies, 70 00:02:09,013 --> 00:02:10,350 I wouldn't find my act breaks in time 71 00:02:10,350 --> 00:02:11,720 and I'd make my characters too similar 72 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:12,760 so you wouldn't know who's, 73 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:14,370 so you've gotta keep doing these things. 74 00:02:14,370 --> 00:02:16,300 Given the people you trust, kinda learn. 75 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:17,480 You're gonna fail. 76 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:18,410 Learn from those failures. 77 00:02:18,410 --> 00:02:19,360 And it's never gonna stop. 78 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,650 You're always gonna get better. 79 00:02:20,650 --> 00:02:22,430 So any opportunity you have to keep going, 80 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:23,380 failing, taking risks, 81 00:02:23,380 --> 00:02:25,293 I think will only help you in the long run.