All right, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard.

My favorite things, the ask me anything, is I get a ton of questions from people from all

over, did a workshop in New York where I didn't even get to all the questions.

And so here goes. If you need to reach me,

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All right, here goes. First question from Amanda in Lansing, Michigan.

Who is the first comedian funny person that inspired you? I'm going to go two-fold on this.

So a lot of people don't know this when I was younger. My dad passed away when I was four,

and when I got a little older, I used to explore in the basement. I found an old rusty file cabinet

with a bunch of musty albums in there,

but I didn't have a record player. So back then, this is dating myself, they used to have

S&H green stamps, these little green stamps. They'd give you one for every dollar you spend at the

supermarket and you lick them and you'd put them in these books,

and if you filled up a book, it would be worth $5.

And then you could go to a redemption center and get appliances, different kinds of equipment, anything.

And I bought one of those fold-down record players and looked through those albums,

and it was all black artists like Matt King Cole,

Diana Ross. It was just Shirley Bassi, it was just incredible. I grew up in an all-white

neighborhood. It was like I couldn't believe it. And there were only three albums of white

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