111. Gary Simons: A New Comedian Asks Mike 10 Key Questions About Starting Out in Comedy

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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25 years ago, Mike won Georgetown University‘s funniest person on campus contest. This week's guest Gary Simons won it three years ago. Now, Gary has been opening for Mike’s new tour and has a lot of questions: How do I get an agent? How do I go from doing 5 minutes to doing an hour? Any relationship advice for comedians in love? Plus, Pete Holmes calls in and offers his own advice. Please Consider Donating To: https://ctfoodshare.org/

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0:00.0	You use the term like laugh quotient.
0:02.1	It's like once you can start turning this into math
0:05.1	in a way where you're like, okay,
0:06.4	no, that's like a five level joke.
0:07.8	That's a seven level joke.
0:08.9	That's a 10 level joke and then be like,
0:10.3	all your jokes need to be or approach 10s.
0:13.0	You're a seven right now.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:14.9	So cut down these words or like rethink that joke
0:17.3	and start breaking it down and then put it all together.
0:20.5	Like it's some type of Lego that I've just made
0:22.7	and now it's like this sets now so much better
0:25.6	than it ever could be.
0:27.1	Yeah, it's the math of it in some ways is a trick.
0:32.2	You're tricking yourself into doing artistic work
0:37.2	that is hard.
0:38.5	Yeah.
0:39.3	It's actually harder than math homework.
0:41.0	Yeah, it's harder than math homework.
0:42.6	Like math homework is easy.
0:44.1	Yeah.
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