
Whitney Cummings
The Bob Lefsetz Podcast
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What's the Gold Standard for Great Comedians?
Whitney: I think that the bar for a great special is like, Oh, George Carlin right about now. That's sort of the gold standard. So when you write, okay, do you sit down with a pout of paper or do you take a shower and something comes to you? Computer writing every premise, everything I can think of. They don't have to be jokes yet. Go for a hike, writing them in my phone. There's never writers blocked. You always have some stuff. But there's definitely like, you know, sitting around calling people,. running it by people, brainstorming. Whitney says she has pages and pages and pages of not funny things
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