Oh, and Benjamin, thank you for doing this.

Thank you for coming all this way.

I've interviewed, I don't know how many people who've been canceled.

I had a whole franchise interviewing people who've been canceled.

Kind of over it, except in your case.

You have the most amazing cancellation story, both because you were, I think,

really the first big name, the first blue check on Twitter to get kicked off Twitter, but also because of what happened after. So I know this is probably tedious for you, but it's, I think, really interesting for others. If you could just go through what happened, where you were in your life, how that life ended, and what happened next. Yeah, and thanks for having me. Oh my gosh. This has been a blast.

Thank you.

Me too.

So I was doing comedy in Los Angeles. Like I started as a piano player. My dad sang opera. He taught rhetoric. You know, I just basically how to speak in a way that's interesting to people. You were a piano player? Yeah. I started when I was like two or three years old and I still teach piano, like classical piano.

Wow. piano player? Yeah, I started when I was like two or three years old and I still teach piano,

like classical piano. Wow, not jazz piano. Not jazz piano. No, that's unspeakable.

I have a jazz friend who's really into jazz and I'm like, why do you enjoy breaking the rules

that make things beautiful?

It's a funny relationship, but.

And so, like, I think with that musical background, my mom taught children's literature,

it, like, kind of created a comedian in a way that's a craft. Like, I wasn't, you know, seeking fame or, like, a lot of comedians can just be like kind of spilling everything

on stage, like, approve of me, you know? I was all about just doing that craft properly. And so I

incorporated music with it. I go to Los Angeles. I get on the show punked. I, um, you know, I do

Comedy Central specials. Adam Sandler puts me in some movies. I become like one of the

leads of a sitcom. Vince Vaughn, who I love, produced it and we went on the road together. Like,

I'm having a great time out there. As a stand-up. As a stand-up. Yeah, and an actor, like, but more

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