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but we think you went over the heads of some of the other people.’ Others would say my set was very intellectual. Once enough people started telling me that, I figured I might as well use it as a positive and try to find my own audience based on it.” His background in consulting is not only apparent from analysis like this, but is seen throughout his website. There are numerous tips for comedians, interviews with comics on how they use technology to further their careers, and an area where he has posted goals for each year since 2009. At the end of each year, he revisits how he did and creates a new year’s list. His comedy career accidentally began at Rutgers where he co-founded slutgers.com, a parody of the university’s website. It was created one drunken night during his Freshmen year. “As with most things at Rutgers, alcohol was involved,” he ex- Ben Rosenfeld talks about his childhood “Facial Tics” NewJerseyStage.com 2016 - ISSUE 1 Table of Contents 31