I'm with Dina Hashem everybody. Welcome to Watkins Welcome. Thank you for coming through.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to talk to you about all things but mostly comedy.

I'm just excited to hear about how you ended up in comedy. Are you still at the Daily Show too?

Yes, yes, yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

Tell us about how you ended up in comedy.

I'm always so fascinated with anyone who's like, you know what, I'm going to be a comedian.

I don't know, like I honestly say this all the time, like I talk about it in my special where I'm like I feel like it's clear to everyone. I don't belong here. I know I don't belong here. I just I'm not a I feel like I belong in comedy but I was never a performer like I never raised my hand in class I never like spoke up like it's actually insane like people who knew me then would are like that's insane that you do this but basically I got into it because I tried

out for a contest in college and I won and I was like oh now I'm addicted to this so I guess I'm

going to keep doing it but I never aspired to be a performer or a comedian in any way.

Like I know most of my friends are like they always want to be a comedian.

I'm like that's really weird.

Like I don't even like watching stand-up.

Like I don't even like watching stand-up like I don't even like it.

So.

Did you where did you grow up?

I go up in central New Jersey.

Okay and where did you go to college?

Rutgers, I'm just, I've been in Jersey my whole life and I started comedy there because there was a, I mean the main club in New Jersey happened to be at in the Rutgers campus the stress

factory so it just like worked out well that I immediately had a place to just do

open mics for like my first couple years and then I was like okay I'm ready to move

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