All right. Welcome back to another episode of Industry Standard, the Ask Me Anything version.

This is very exciting. I got an audience of three in here. This is three times more of the audience I've ever had.

And there's questions here. I just want you to know I have not seen these questions. These are questions that I'm getting. I'm sure some of them are from real people. And some of them are from the people who work with me, fucking with me. I can see there's many that they're fucking with me in terms of the names. God damn it, how am I

going to pronounce those names? Anyway, let's start. If you need to reach me, you can do so,

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I'm really excited about this and let's see what happens.

I don't know what's going to happen, but let's go.

All right.

Ah, Joanna from Los Angeles.

What advice do you have for female comics?

Could you be a little more vague joanna don't go to sweden and get the

operation just yet um no um you know there's something that chris rock said to me a while ago that stuck with me

and it it came across in the way that was really interesting but also if you listen to the tone

in a different way you might think not so good about it.

But what he said is it's an amazing time for women in comedy.

Because when you look at it, he said at the time he said it,

what are there like seven women at the time or 10 that were millionaires who were standups.

And how many men were out there making so much money?

And he said, you know, if a woman can just figure out how to headline,

get their hour together, they're going to be successful.

They're going to get their following because there's so few women who have that hour together

that moves people and inspires people and drives people to go to their shows.

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