426 - Gilbert Gottfried: Laugh Everyday (It's Medicine For Your Day)
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:12.6 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.4 | I mean you started doing stand up when you were 15 and you dropped out of high school |
| 0:20.8 | and then really the next thing we hear from you is that you're on Saturday Live and |
| 0:25.5 | you become part of the cast there. |
| 0:28.5 | What's happening between 1970 and 1980? |
| 0:30.5 | How did you kind of build your skills? |
| 0:33.3 | God, I don't know. |
| 0:35.4 | First time I went up on a stage I was 15. |
| 0:39.6 | And I think everybody in show business has this. |
| 0:43.8 | That's that split personality where one half of you is like I'm going into show business |
| 0:54.0 | and people are going to pay money to come see me and they're going to go to the movies |
| 1:00.2 | and turn on the TV just to watch me because I'm that great. |
| 1:06.0 | And then the other half of you is saying oh please love me, please love me. |
| 1:11.0 | I want some reassurance. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm worth it. |
| 1:14.0 | Do you think you need both because when you're on the stage you probably can't let the |
| 1:19.0 | audience see you're nervous about what they think or else they'll tear you apart. |
| 1:24.0 | But at the same time you have to perform material that you know is going to make them laugh. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, so yeah it's so to definitely split thing. |
| 1:33.4 | Was there ever a point where you felt like oh I did go too far. |
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