My thought was: New York is so big, and there are so many places to perform spread out across the city and beyond, why not just do them all? I never turned down anything. Sometimes I got sent away. Sometimes I got burnt. Sometimes I traveled seven hours to do a college show where no one laughed and I wasn’t paid. But not once could anyone say that I didn’t try. The comics who made it from that time were the ones who felt the same way and thought: I’m not above this place or these people. No one is. I’m here to get on stage—any stage. If you grind without that mentality, then you’re wasting
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