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Noam Dworman

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first: 2023-07-26
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“Again, one of the things I admire about you, and I think as I get to know you, and I'm more comfortable to speak with you, but I think that we're similar only in the sense that I think you're trying to live life on your own terms and do exactly what you want to do and enjoy exactly what you want to do when you want to do it. And that has really been the joy of my life so far. And that's what I'm trying to do. Now I have kids. That's a huge joy in my life. So I don't know exactly what I'll do next after that. It'll be whatever I want to do that I'm interested in at the time to enjoy myself. That's really the way it's been all along.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we just closed on the biggest thing I've ever done, which is a new building on 3rd Street, was the former McDonald's. And I want to open a room that hopefully be the flagship room, which will be a very, very intimate 200-seat theater-ish kind of place with a mezzanine. I'm doing that also largely because I have kids and I want them to have enough that they don't have to fight over it. I've seen so many families torn apart fighting over estates and things like that. I'm trying to keep having fun.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think so. I mean, I shouldn't say it never, but I mean, like my Monday night live music that I do with Coleman Pretty popular, but it's very small. And I couldn't even imagine succeeding at a live music club now. You can do it with famous acts, but the kind of non-famous live music club, no. I think that's partly why comedy's gotten busier too. Comedy in certain ways replaced music as a thing people go to do.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“McDougall Street was so now. This was during the folk rock era when Loven Spoonfuls around the corner and Dylan was, McDougall Street was so busy you couldn't even walk down the street. The cars had to go at a tiny pace. It was a flood of people. You can see this a little bit in the movie The President's Analyst. I don't know if you ever saw it. No. This clips of the village in those days. And then it just has decayed ever since that. I think live music. I don't think it's coming back”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's done. When I started a music club in 88, everybody had live music. I mean, it was live music everywhere, not just on Bleaker Street, but throughout the city. A few things happened at the same time. First of all, fewer and fewer people play the kind of music which is practical for live venues. It was much more electronic and hip-hop and whatever it is. Number one, number two, rents got higher and landlords don't want noise and neighbors don't want noise. And it's almost impossible to control the noise. And DJs became super popular on their own. And DJs are way cheaper and more predictable in what they're going to do. You hire some live band. You don't know what they're going to play or if they'll show up. There's so many reasons that like, I mean, when I was a kid.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you can do that. You bury yourself in it. You'll always have an accent at it in some way. But at some point, you get used to it and then you begin to be able to discern the good from the bad. And then somehow that becomes part of your vocabulary and how you play. And that just happens. You can't really plan that. So in some way, having all these influences made me unique in a certain way as a musician, but unique in just in everything that I do, I like to think because I don't know. I try to be very, very open-minded. I hope the answers meanders a little bit, but I do think these things are connected. Like it's an idea that's not limited to music. It's just an approach to the world. And you're the best example I know of this.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, that I was very, very lucky. I wish my father alive for you to meet him. I had very, very broad. Influences in my home and a total lack of snobbery about anything. And actually, this is why I take to you in a way. I think you have that too. So anything that was considered to be great within its culture, the greatest Arabic music, the great whatever it was, it was assumed that it was upon me to learn why it was great.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They can't quite do it like him. It's kind of like the Sinatra's singing, nobody gets that, but yet everybody can't believe how good he is. But he's not seeing like Elephant Fitzgerald. He's not singing like Tony Bennett. It's almost approachable. You'd think you could almost sing like Sinatra. But you can't. The guitar players like that. I've listed some of them. Those are the people I really admire. I really don't and never did enjoy the fancy guitar players like the guitar gods because that's not really my approach to music more song oriented. I like the songs. I like the, I even like the solos that are not necessarily improvised.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The guitar players who are not fancy, like Paul McCartney, whose touch is magically you can tell it's him immediately, like Paul Simon, James. Genius that he is because he basically invented an entire style. Nobody plays like him. Nobody sounds like him. And nobody played like that before him. Willie Nelson's soloing, I know that people like Miles Davis, you know, they get it because it's so simple. It's all phrasing. It's something that anybody would think they could do.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I get around has that. Now, I get around is very sophisticated harmonically. It's got a keychange and it goes down a step afterwards and he comes, he finishes. I think he finishes where he started. I mean, you can't say enough about Brian Wilson, right? This guy's a real genius.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's just, first of all, that introduction, it's so fresh. Barbershop kind of sound with this rock music. I mean, as a kid, I can remember vividly the first time I heard it. I'd never heard anything like it. That's always impressive to me when something comes out of nowhere and you can't even trace it as a progression of what came before. That's what those beach boys songs were like to me. That's like the first time I heard I want to hold your hand, these kind of things. I'm not exactly unique. The first time I heard Teen Spirit, the Nirvana song. Right. There's just something about, and again, I'm saying this, but everybody says that, right?”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not Coleman, no, not all the songs, not by anyone. I'm pretty good at it. I don't have perfect pitch. People with perfect pitch are always better at it. I'm not as good as this guy, Nick Caserino, who plays with me. He will have a higher batting average. I'm not a genius. I'm not, but I'm very good. But, you know, a lot of people like you hear old Beatle records, Paul McCarney's making mistakes. You know, there's music has so many different aspects that go into it in terms of what it means to be a great musician. This artistic aspects to it. There's strategic aspects to it. There's sensitivity aspects to it, there's all sorts of things.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Oud was a forerunner of the loot, and then I had a whole career playing music. I was pretty successful at it. And I was Not a genius musically I play with some people who I could never play like they can play, but I was always the leader. I always became the leader in any situation, even with musicians who were better than me in certain ways. There was something about its related to knowing when the lights are up and down. There was something about my sensibility musically. I will say this about myself, which was unique to me and very good. And that's why to this day, like I still play with the very, very best musicians in the world will come down and hang out in the olive tree.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, there is. I would say that, I mean, I was a very good musician in high school. I was hired as an accompanist for a classical Oot player and I played Carnegie Hall and a number of important of those types of rooms. I was recommended to study with Segovia. I was considered to be a...”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then I got scared. I say, you know what? This is probably not something we should do. And I chickened out and I went the other way. And before cell phones had cameras, but if I had, it was like I am legend or something. It was a most amazing thing I've ever seen. It just happened to be there and I couldn't capture it, but deserted. Just like you could just walk right into the government buildings. It's crazy. Anyway.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Looking for her daughter who and she sees my stepmother and she says, have you seen Juanita and Alva? She says, it's okay. They're in DC. And my wife's mother says, she's not in D.C. I just saw her two hours ago and then it dawned that so I got busted on 9-11. And I just remember you couldn't get back into Manhattan and it was burning. I hope it burns and burns. I just keep putting it off and putting it off. It was the most horrible thing. But I will tell you an interesting aspect of that story. And this story's been written up in a book, by the way. He wants to get the long version of it. When we went out into DC that day, There was nobody at the White House. And we were able, we began to walk down the path. Realizing we could walk into the building like January 6th.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, don't you understand what's happened? I had no idea, and I turn on the TV. So I turn on the TV, it was 9-11. The World Trade Center is full down. I said, well, I'm in DC. That's all I say. So then my girlfriend, now my wife, my wife knows the story. Her mother, I'm really trying to condense the story, shows up to the olive tree. That's”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I had decided that the only way you could have an affair, I wasn't married, God forbid, was that you and the woman had to be the only two people who know about it. So I had this girlfriend. I said, we're going to go to Washington, D.C. And I didn't tell anybody. And I can't believe you're doing this. And I was in a hotel. And my cell phone is ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing. And I don't want to answer it. Finally, I answer it, and if someone working in the office calling on behalf of my father, Where are you? Where are your father's going? I'm in DC. And then I spoke to my father's wife. I'm in D.C.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I try to do it short. So, you know, when I was younger, not anymore. Listen, I was a musician. I'm not proud of it, but I was, I caroused. I was not faithful to girlfriends, whatever. I'm just copying to it. I can't believe. Because I texted Coleman today, LA, he's like, it'll be fine. Don't worry about it. And then the only bad question.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was something we could have done without even closing In order to comply with the law, we were closed for like six or seven months. The landmark permission, one thing after another, after another, after another. We can't put in a bathroom because then we'd have to renovate the bathrooms downstairs and have room for it. There's so many things we're very, very fortunate because we're established and we're successful. But you wonder how it is that in a new business can overcome these costs. My father started his first place. He was a cab driver. The notion that a cab driver could aspire. Opening a restaurant in the village now, it's impossible. You couldn't do it”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the dumbest thing, it's not huge to me, is that when they raise the minimum wage, they raise it for tipped employees rather than the people who are working hard in the kitchen, let's say. Now our servers, I think finally it caught up with everybody, our servers make as a waitering job quite a bit of money. Some of them can make a hundred thousand dollars a year, I think. Would pay me to work here. I'm not suggesting they do, but regulations really. Didn't take care of for a while. And as I said, I think the minimum wage may have caught up now. They did not take care of the people who were really laboring hard at low wages. I thought that was a tremendous mistake. The sum total of the regulations is crazy. It's death by a thousand cuts. So then we wanted to move a wall downstairs to expand the kitchen by, I don't know, seven feet.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just notice. My father had it. I have it. I can walk into a room and I notice it immediately. People I've trained who are there every day don't notice. I'm like, don't you see that? Oh, yeah, you're right, boss. I didn't see that. This is just, it's like, you know, it's a talent. I'll cop to it. It's a talent.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The general manager doesn't want to let me know about the customer complaint because, in some way, this reflects on her management of the place. So there's immediately the incentives are all bad. That's why it's always better if you're a customer to ask for the owner, because the owner is the only one who really, really cares, who has no. SD is completely loyal. There is zero deep state with SD. And this as a boss is something you may never have. And when you do have it, it's priceless. I cannot tell you the sense of ease I have that I can speak with her totally candidly, totally frankly about any comedian, about anything in the world. And I know it's days between us. She'll never, ever let it on. It's an amazing thing.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know when Trump used to talk about the deep state. It always rang true to me because every boss has a deep state in his business because anybody, so for instance, I have a general manager. I'm not talking about my general manager and a customer's complaining.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I said, Essie, how are you doing? She was on terrible pain. I'm taking. I said, Well, you need to stay home. She goes, Stay home as long as you need. She goes, I'm at work. I said, what are you doing at work? She knows she's going to get paid. This is a dedication you cannot find this anywhere, and people see that in her, and they respond to it. I mean, the most famous people in the world, Judd Appetau, John Mayer, they're texting with SD. They go out to dinner with SD. They adore her. And that is the magic that she brings to it”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I always say it was my father's genius to hire a booker who didn't speak English. Listen, she gets mad when I say this, but I'm going to be very honest. Knowing who the good comics are is not the challenge. It is obvious to anybody who the good comics are. You could not speak the language. In the room and know who the funny comics are. You hear the laughter, you see the audience. However, she is tremendously good at other things. She is a Jewish mother. She takes care of them. And I know you can make me cry if I saw it. She's extremely loyal. This woman bleeds comedy seller blue more than me. She worries about the club more than me. She broke her rib a few weeks ago in terrible pain.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“$38. And also, I went to a piano bar called the Nines. A drink is $26. And our cover charge on a Saturday night is $26. So maybe I'm out of touch and I do have to raise the prices in some way, but it's always better to be full. It's always better for people to think that they got their money's worth. The longevity can't be measured for that kind of philosophy. And you only know you've blown it when it's too late. You only know you've raised your prices when it's too late. What I do keep track of in terms of metrics for my business is not how much money we take in. It's how many people we turn away every week. Because I know if I see that number dropping, that's when I have, you know, now I have to react to that. So this is all kind of related to each other.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I have to take a look at raising my prices. I had no idea. I didn't mention this to you, right? You didn't know I just saw this today.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dude, I just found out today that one of our other clubs is charging 38 New York Comedy Club $38 plus a $5 ticket fee, which is just, you know, why would there be a ticket fee? It's just a ripoff, and an $18 minimum. You're talking about almost twice as expensive as we are. Just seems too much to me, doesn't it seem too much? Who wants to pay that much money?”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't care what it takes. I don't care if it takes longer to turn over the room. I don't care if we lose a show. We're not going to have a performer having to compete with paying a check, especially if he's talking. Like music is bad enough. So this was something he dug in on. And to this day, our competitors have check spots, even their last shows where there is no time constraint. Why I cannot account for that. And from that, you can extrapolate many things that they're probably doing wrong because they don't have their priorities straight.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My grandmother, but just like a dwarm in family kind of tradition, like my father knew how To take care of people, treat them nicely. He was a performer himself. He understood the stage from a performer's point of view. So I'll give you a perfect example. To this day, every comedy club has a check spot, which is during the last comedians, they give out the check. Now, the comedians hate this because how can you pay attention to the comic while you're figuring out your check? And from day one, my faucet, we're never going to have a check spot.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's a good question. And I don't. I mean, what I think it is. Is that we The most dedicated. I say this, yeah. It's uncomfortable for me to talk this way, but this is what I believe. We were completely dedicated, always, always, always to doing things the right way in terms of having the best comedians. And treating the customers the way we wanted to be treated ourselves. And this is like, to this day, it's an obsession with me. It's harder and harder to keep that mentality as we're so busy among the staff who become complacent, whatever it is, I regard this as a big challenge and a very important challenge that I have to overcome. But it was the way we treated the comedians. My grandmother was a very warm host. My father was an extremely warm host. He always”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I will then share it with them, and to the extent that they want to have it released or given to a museum in Sundays, but there will be clips there of people like Louis C.K. performing to like five people. And it'll be a different aspect of Louise C.K. than anybody's ever seen. And it's fascinating, like seeing the Beatles and the Cavern Club or something.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But yeah, it was very tough. And actually, those were good old days, in a way, because the comedians had much less pressure on them in those days. So they would take chances. They would be. Hilarious improvised things. I just sent a whole wall full of VHS tapes to a digitizing place in Boston. They actually came to pick it up. It's going to cost a lot of money. And I'll have a lot of that period on video.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh boy, was it so, first of all, week nights at comedy clubs in general were basically empty. Comedy was not the popular thing that it is today. The comedy seller was even then we were the newcomer and the low club on the totem pole, the improv, the catcher rising star, Caroline's. These were the go-to clubs. And it was so slow that my father used to have the waitresses take off their aprons and all sit in the room, pretend to be customers so that if somebody would come through the door, they wouldn't think they were the only customer. You know, we went through all sorts of things to try to seed the room. The weekends were always busy because people want to go out on the weekends.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Definitely the laugh's a louder, first of all. You are enjoying it with your friends in a closer physical way. There's just an intensess to it. I mean, my answer may not be very eloquent, but obviously anybody can just picture as you spread people out, you can just intuitively understand, well, that's just not going to work. You know, you have to be close together.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Most important thing is that everybody should be a little bit closer than they want to be claustrophobia of the room, I think, is extremely important. It is not good to have people spread out. We do get complaints from time to time about people being that the seats were too tight. And it's the one complaint I will not address in terms of making changes in the room because I know that it helps.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. So, I mean, Vegas audiences are, you know, you'll have more conservatives, more Trump supporters. It's riskier to have a too political comic there who will start offending the Trump supporters and whatever it is. But other than that, I've found, to my surprise, or not to my surprise, but to the surprise of other people, that audiences are the same. that the people who are funny are funny in Vegas just like they are in New York. Hacks will do a little bit better in Vegas than they will in New York because more people in New York realize that they're hearing something that's not original. But funny is funny, and like people say, maybe you can't somebody send somebody out to Jewy or to whatever. No, doesn't matter at all.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Part of the reason I was nervous about this interview because I don't think anybody realizes how uninformed I am in a certain way about anything that happens outside my little kingdom here, you know, or that sounds outward, but my little environment. And I'm focused on everything that happens around me. And a huge amount of that has nothing to do with comedy. It's about customers being happy and people being friendly and the homeless being made right and whatever it is. So I don't know that much about LA comedy.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, they say, you know, I don't know. I'm repeating only stuff I've heard that New York stand up comedy is a more battle test. It is quicker and funnier and more highly regarded. That's within the stand-up community. I would also say that there's a lot more celebrities at the LA clubs, people like Joe Rogan, and as opposed to here where they're drop ins, they're on the lineups there. So it's much more difficult, it's much less stage time for an up-and-coming comic in LA. That's what I'm told.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If it's counterbargo, I don't think it works. I was very nervous to do this interview. You could say anything you want to me. We've gotten one ear or not the other, you know.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know if it's a power trip or whatever it is. They don't do that. They'll purposely not show any emotion to the person auditioning, which I think is counterproductive because you're trying to find out how good they are. So why would you not want to do as much as you can to bring the best out of them? So I try to bring the best out of people as much as I can. This was the same thing when I was auditioning musicians, but it's hard because when they're nervous, you know, they're really nervous. It's hard.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I try to do is. Put them at ease if I can. And, you know, they sometimes watching you when you audition them, my book or SD does this way more often, and we speak about it. We try to laugh, try not to let them look out and see a stone face, try in some way. Now, I know this, you know, sometimes it's common that the people auditioning people.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“John Podharitz, you know, commentary, but he apparently took improv classes for that reason And I know that public speaking is apparently the number one phobia. I've read that. So I suppose getting used to being in front of an audience in some way would be helpful. But I think the law of diminishing returns probably kicks in pretty quick. It's probably something good to do a little bit. I don't think it's going to help you much to do it for a long time. But I don't know. I don't know.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Expect is going to be their lives from the time they're in school, nine to five, whatever it is. So at some point, I think if you do it for too long, you would probably kill yourself rather than go back. I've had that thought to myself, like if I had to go back to like, I never practiced law, but if I had to take a job as a lawyer and I'm not just saying this to be dramatic, I think I might kill myself. I can't even imagine at my age having to start going to work at 9 o'clock, having a boss, having to answer for mistakes that I made, having the pressure of having to get it right. Otherwise, somebody's life is impacted. I just got too used to being able to do what I want when I want to do. Comedians have to get gigs, but essentially they can do what they want when they want to do it. They don't have to get up in the morning. And I think at some point you just become so used to that. There's no going back.”
2023-07-26 · Conversations with Tyler · Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, it makes it harder for them to socialize. Like I hear the story all the time about comedians when they go like Thanksgiving dinner with their family and all of a sudden the entire place gets silent. Like, did he just say because you get used to being in an atmosphere where you could say whatever you want? I think probably, because I know this in my life, and again, getting used to essentially being your own boss, you get used to that, and then it just becomes very, very hard to ever consider going back into kind of like the structured life that most people...”
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“It might, you know, I think so much of this. Defies these rules of thumb. And I think that When somebody comes along who has something original about them, something about their take on things, something about the way they speak, whatever it is, and it's real, they will become big regardless of what it is. Again, it's like, you know, somebody with a super musical talent like Django Reinhardt, they're missing fingers. They figure out how to play with their toes. When you have real talent, you will make it. The problem is always that that's the top 5%, whatever you want to say. And then there is the more mediocre category of people who are successful in stand-up comedy. And in that group, then, yeah, then you could maybe attribute these kind of things that you're talking about. But among the people with super talent, I don't think it matters what they look like. I don't think any of these things hold them back.”
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“Oh, yeah, absolutely. Whitney Cummings is very, very funny. I think she's beautiful. She was a model. I know what you're saying, but I don't think. It's an obstacle. I don't think it would be an obstacle. Yes, it's true. There haven't been that many truly beautiful women doing stand-up comedy. I would not say that that's the reason.”
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“I would have to say they're not less happy because they love their work and they can't wait to go to work. And like my father used to tell me, most people live their whole lives for the weekend. They can't stand going to work. And those people I have trouble believing are happier than comedians. Because anybody, and I have a job similar to this where my whole profession is on my own terms. If I'm interested in computers, I can make that work for my profession. If I have music, whatever it was I wanted to do, this is happiness. So unless they are chemically depressed people, as some people are, I think comedians are probably happier than most people.”
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“Less happy? That's a good question. I think there's a lot of depression, there's a lot of psychiatropic drugs, is that the phrase, you know, a lot of mood drugs being taken by comedians. But if you read the paper as this is common throughout American culture. So I don't know if it's more or they're just, again, more open about it because comedians will tell you, I'm taking this, I'm taking that.”
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