Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard with me, Barry Katz.

Very excited today for my guest, Dustin Ibarra, a really, really amazingly funny, stand-up comedian

and also a really, really great actor. If you need to reach me, you can do so at Barry Katz at X or Twitter,

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And when I think of Dustin Ibarra, I think of a guy who is very, very rare.

He's rare in the sense that he's a great stand-up comedian.

He's done the Tonight Show, but he's also a great actor.

And those two things don't seem to come hand in hand.

You can count the actors who are stand-up comedians who book significant roles on half a hand.

Well, maybe I'm exaggerating, but maybe a couple of hands and feet.

But there's thousands of stand-up comedians, and thousands of them except for a handful,

can never seem to book an acting job.

And Dustin's one of those guys that is able to go into a room with an audience and kill it.

He's able to go onto a late-night television show with an audience in real time,

not being able to make any mistakes and kill it.

And he's able to go into a room with a casting director and an intern with a camera and deliver a monologue

or a scene that makes the director, the producers, the studio, and everyone involved want to hire him.

And as simply put, I can't even begin to tell you in my opinion how important it is

to learn as many skill sets in this crazy business as you can.

And as a stand-up comedian, that means learning how to podcast, learning how to do social media,

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