Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. My guest today is Sam

Morel, a guy I like a great deal, a hilarious comedian, really one of my favorite comedians.

Thank you.

And I've come to know him after the...

I mean, I've known you, I think I've known you since 2007 or something like that.

It's been a lot.

And I've always... You're somebody that all the comedians always said, hey watch this guy, he's a great writer.

And it's true, dude, I really do think you're a great performer,

because Goldman, Goldman has told me many times that some comedians like you,

if you hear you're a great joke writer, you might think,

well, does that mean I suck at performing you know yeah yeah we

always take a compliment and spin it into an insult that's what we all like you're a good

writer and you're like so I'm bad at this it's such a it's such an awful quality

but yeah no I don't I I'm flattered when someone says,

you're a good writer.

I don't, I don't take it as an insult.

I mean, where do you, like what, which part of the thing?

I mean, I know it all matters, but where do you take the most sort of either pride or put the most focus or which part of it do you work the most at that is it writing is it performing can you separate them are they one thing

absolutely yeah i mean i think the writing is like the gym and then the performing is like the show you know I mean it's you're you can I had someone say to me like well big deal

you'll get back on stage it's like riding a bike and I said no man it's first off I can't ride a bike so that's a horrible analogy and second off you

know it's not because it's like it's like telling there's a reason there's spring

training you know you have to get back into shape or stay in shape.

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