![]() I think good comedians hold themselves to a high standard. That being said: Don’t go after an easy, bad racist joke, you know? It’s one of those things again-if it’s a racist joke, it better be good enough that people are like, “Yeah, it works.” ![]() And oftentimes we might say something that you absolutely hate, but we can’t know that until we say it. You’re part of how we know if things work or not. So some of the stuff might be more polished, and other stuff you might be like, “I don’t know. Anytime you see someone in a club, it’s very likely they’re saying something for the very first time. When, in reality, the finished product is the special or the album. You do, and I think where people get confused is that when they see you at a comedy club, they think they’re seeing the finished product. And maybe sometimes you still don’t.Īnd to hone a joke, you do have to have an audience. It’s going to take you a while before you stick the landing. But jokes on hard subjects, I think of it like you’re a gymnast: It’s like a vault with a very high degree of difficulty. And you might say a joke a hundred times before you’re like, “That’s the way it works.”Īnd there’s, like, a lot of minutiae in joke writing that I don’t think people really understand. And those are the hardest ones to do, and they take the longest to curate. If you’re gonna do a joke about a sensitive subject, you make that a really good joke. The original Daily Show with Jon Stewart, it took him at least a year and a half.Įvery joke I make, I prepare the joke in the way that you’d prepare a legal argument, where-before someone can get mad at you for saying something-you try to cut them off with a “I know you’re thinking this, but this is why.” You know? When Trevor took over The Daily Show, it took at least two years to figure that one out. And they let it play out.Īt Seth Meyers, it took us a year and a half to two years to kind of figure it out. You know they were either gonna see it and immediately be like, “We wanna invest in this-we’ll give you 30 more,” or they were just gonna let it play out. I just always knew ten wasn’t going to be enough. I don’t think anyone else in late night is doing this.”ĭo you feel like the show got a fair shot to succeed? I mean, our episode order was for ten episodes. In that moment, I was like, “If we don’t get any more episodes, I’m very happy to end on crows having sex with dead crows. We were like, “Oh, this is what we wanna do!” Which is a very short time to figure out a show, but also I wish we would have just started at episode eight, even though that’s impossible.Īnyway, that was my favorite episode, because I sit down and then immediately I go, “I wanna do another monologue,” and then we did six minutes on crows having sex with dead crows. I feel like we figured out the show in the last three episodes. That was the last episode, and we did a double monologue. ![]() There’s the one episode where you sit down at the desk but then you get back up to do more stand-up. And I also wanted it to look different from the other shows, so I thought having a microphone and kind of shooting it like you’d shoot a stand-up special would give it a different vibe. I wanted it to feel like topical stand-up. One thing that stuck out for me was when you did your opening monologues for The Break, you chose to hold a microphone. Like this one about Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “She burns facts, and she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye.” It was a performance considered controversial only by people who somehow don’t think the president is a racist and, for some reason, Maggie Haberman. “A lady fart.”īut if you didn’t catch her viciously funny HBO special, then you probably saw her big moment earlier this year, when she burned down the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner with a set that righteously scorched the Trump administration. We gotta go! It’s not safe here anymore.” She pauses to clarify. A fart that, after you’d heard it, you’d be like, ‘I don’t even know who you are as a person.’… The kind of fart you leave a party for. After a few years in the writers’ room of Late Night with Seth Meyers, then at the relaunched The Daily Show under Trevor Noah, Michelle Wolf stepped into the spotlight with the HBO stand-up special Nice Lady and introduced herself to the world the way any normal person would-with a fart joke: “A fart you never even heard before.
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