[Jay calls New Jersey Stage]
My apologizes for not getting
back to you at 11, I have the best
excuse possible… I was asleep. I
woke up, took my kid to the bus,
said ‘Let’s get a lot done today’
and then I went back to sleep.
That’s a good, lazy attitude for
someone that works as hard as
you! You first got into comedy
just to impress a girl. I wonder
how much of history has a story
like that. I’m pretty sure if you go
back to every bridge built, fire being invented, etc., there’s some
girl going ‘Yeah, I know, but I was
kind of hoping you could do more
pushups.’
Tell me about how you met her.
Did you meet her at the early
open mic nights? I was teaching
high school English in New Jersey and I had just started dating
her. I had been teaching “The
Love Song of Prufrock,” a poem
about giving in to middle age and
not having accomplished anything due to fear. The kids were
like “You keep talking about this.
What’s the thing that you want to
do that you’re afraid of?” I’m like
ok, God’s speaking to me through
a high school kid…
So I went over to Philadelphia
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