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Million dollar [ bleep ]. >> that's the perfect room. you get to have a tv show, make some money, but you also get to do standup comedy and be who you are. >> great success. doesn't come for everybody. the landscape is strewn with the bodies of standups who got television deals and it just didn't work. >> my butt is really sore. >> from when they were playing pin the tail on the honky. >> they tried sitcoms with dave chappell. it's not just finding the funniest person with the funniest voice. it's not that easy. >> is there something i can help you with? >> wow, you look cold. >> it is tricky ...

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Using the stage the way a therapist would use their couch. >> my grandmother is the lady that used to discipline me. right? you know. beat my ass. you know. get your ass out, put your hand out. don't you run from me! don't you run from me! as long as you live, don't you run from me. >> what people took from him was a lot of the attitude and the over-the-topness and the profanity. the thing that people don't give richard pryor enough credit for is what he brought to standup comedy was vulnerability. >> for me, the best night was having a woman who was sitting close to the stage beg me to stop. ...

Stop, please stop! you can't beat that. >> the one thing about hitler that i admire is that he wouldn't take any [ bleep ] from magicians. >> it brings out the best parts of your personality. it brings out your best self. hello. it does. you like yourself when you're up there. you like yourself. >> thank you. seriously, thank you. you have no idea what a good mood i'm in right now. i sweat so well. okay. >> it wasn't that things went so well for an hour. it was for an hour, you kept a potential disaster from being a disaster. that's where the high comes off of. >> it's all instinct. i think th...

And i think it's because it's out of shape. doesn't a manatee look like a guest on the ricki lake show. >> what you've got to do is get yourself an education and a job. i don't know what you're doing to talk about. you're fat, you got to go to weight watchers. >> i have a layer of blubber to keep me warm in the water. >> jonathan katz created this show. he would interview comedians in squiggle vision. >> i thought the manatee was such a weird animal, and so i came up with some jokes and i had this voice that went with it. it lent itself to this dr. katz bit. >> there was some bits that were dr...