I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's The Treatment. You're listening to a conversation with stand-up comic Chris Red, formerly Saturday Night Live and starring in his HBO Max special, Why Am I Like This? It was recorded before he was assaulted in New York on October 26th.

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Thank you. Santa Monica and KCRW.com. It's The Treatment. It's the Treatment. It's the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest today, you probably know him as an Emmy-winning writer part of Saturday Night Live for the past few years.

He's now moved on.

And his special Chris Redd, why am I like this?

Answers a question why you would not want to sit next to him on an airplane flight.

My guess is Chris Red.

Chris, thanks so much for being here.

Oh, man.

Thank you so much for having me.

You start up by talking about going into therapy and what that's done for you.

And this thing I've always kind of noticing your stand-up, it's like you're watching yourself do stand-up, so you're kind of in conflict with yourself.

And it's interesting how that comes into play on this and this special.

Yeah. Oh, man, I'm glad that I'm glad that

read right because that is exactly what I'm going for with this special. It's like it's a real

introduction of my comedy. You know, I've been on TV longer than I had my special out. Usually,

you're supposed to do the special before people put you on TV. So it was a conflict for myself in general. I'm like, damn, they kind of already know me,

but they don't know me. So like, how can I introduce myself to people at the same time,

not make it seem like I'm just coming out of nowhere and then like addressing things I'm really

going through. And so, like, for why am I like this is a question that I more show why I'm

like this than I do answering the

question. I think that's the whole point of it is to kind of just show that I'm working on myself

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