All right, make your parents proud. Welcome to Puddles with Andrew Colin. I'm here with an amazing guest who we are meeting now for the first time.

We both have brand new white shoes on so you know we know some soul mates. Yeah, right. Whoa, that's pretty big. That's pretty big, but get it because soul feet. Oh, boy, that joke had layers.

We should be wearing some because it's cold out. Okay, we're having fun. Vanessa Johnson is here. Um, I actually, I'm trying to think what I think we met one time at the seller. We did. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, I was in New York. I was doing Carolins on Broadway and I'd never been to the seller. And it was always like that cool place. Like, I feel like the seller for every other comic. It sounds like the mystery land of all the secrets. Yeah, when I go to New York, I want to get to the sell them. They were the cool people. And I'd never been there before. And I walked into the restaurant. And I didn't know by this whole table thing that apparently there was like a table in this restaurant that sold like famous or something. You were sitting at the famous table, right? I don't know if I would. I think you were at the famous table. I was like you and Nikki.

And like a couple of people. And I don't know how I know. I think Nikki are just Instagram friends. So I said hi to her. And that's when we met. Yeah. Um, when you go to a place like that, like a place where that you think has so much history and is the cool spot. Do you build it, build it up in your head before you go and you tell yourself how you're going to act and all that. And, and do you feel like you can be yourself in those situations? Because, you know, I, you know, coming to L.A. I kind of feel that the same way. Like if I'm like, the other

night I was on Theo Vaughn show. And the first time you ever saw me do stand up. So when you're from afar and you don't, you put it so much on a pedestal. Do you feel that when you've got? Yeah. I, you know, I think I can be myself for sure. I can be myself. But when I'm around like, when I'm in a new place that I have a lot of respect for, I get very quiet. So I'm like, all right. I want to be. But why do we put respect on something that if we were there two more days, we wouldn't even think about the respect. Like why do we build things up? I don't know. I still have that with the improv. Like I

think a lot of it comes from documentaries. So like, there's this comedy documentary and all these comics we're talking about the improv. The Hollywood improv. Yeah. I was like Sarah Silverman and Jerry Seinfeld. Like, this is where all the comics made their debut. And this is the legendary stage. And I remember as a new comic, just every time I saw the improv stage, I was like, that's like, what the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail stage. And still six years later, every time I step on this stage, I'm like, I can't believe him on this stage. It's just crazy. Yeah.

Like, this is crazy. And sometimes I'll be on that stage. I'll have two shows on that stage in one night in the big room. And I'm like, how the fuck am I here right now? This isn't seen. And then you get your head. You're like, wait, do I deserve to be on this stage? Like, do my feet deserve to my soul, deserve to be on this fucking stage? Yeah. And look, there's beauty in that because it keeps you like, I guess grounded and it keeps you motivated because you don't think you're deserving. But then on the other hand, you might not be as relaxed or as good of a comic because you're like, I don't.

Look at like, and everything, you know, but the anxiety, I always tell people like, how do you do it? And I was like, well, the anxiety is built up before I get on stage. And then I honestly think that energy.

Like, I get more zoned in when I'm on stage because my anxiety is so high. Uh-huh. And because my anxiety is high, I really do think it like puts on this like force field where like, um, I don't know, like where like the audience wants to pay attention to me more because inside I have so much shit. Oh, I don't know. Maybe.

Yeah. So you're, you're like stressed out. You know, you can change your, your, your lab tops of the settings. It doesn't do that. Oh, how?

Uh, if you go to settings, I do it right now. Sure. Display. Oh my God. Thank you. Okay. Where's the, where's the quick time? I told you, I just touched it. And I just, no, it was beautiful. I feel like that was a journey. Yeah. No, you want me to clip that out of the fucking. I think we're going to keep it. I think it's just going to be us like, yeah.

Ah, I feel like I'm going somewhere. But yeah. So anyways, but yeah, the anxiety of getting on stage. I, okay. So I do feel like I have a weird curse where whenever I feel like I have a very important show, like one of those like career defining things, I feel like something fucked

always happens right before. So like, I remember, like someone always weird comes up to me right before I go on stage. Something always happens right before I step

on stage. So I remember I was at the improv and I had a really big show. Someone important was in the room. And I was like, it's just very important. And as I'm waiting, they're about to call my name. This girl walks up to me. She's like, so who did you fuck to get on this show?

And who did you? You know, I was like, I'm not giving away my list. Yeah, I was very upset. I was upset because this girl wasn't being a bit. She was like genuinely curious. What a fucking

which made me so what made me so mad because I'm like, how dare she? How dare she think that you can fuck your way onto the Hollywood improv stage? Like, because I was so much a

steam for the stage, like the thought that you think you can fuck your way onto the stage. I was more mad about the disrespect, the comedy than the

disrespect to me. Like, this girl thinks is even like an option. And also I'm like, dude, if you could fuck your way onto a stage,

every most shows you look at a show, it's like, what, 20 dudes and like, maybe a girl, maybe a girl on a show. If you could fuck your way

into the stage, every show would be 20 girls and one dude. Yeah. Also that girl is, uh, she's jealous of you. She probably. No, but I'm just saying, like,

yeah, she's so jealous of your beauty. No, but like, you are a good looking girl. I mean, I'm sure, but like women bringing other

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