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Comedian gives brilliant advice for ANY performer Patton Oswalt, in this interview, is talking about the over-competitive comedy scene in DC when he was getting started, but this wisdom could apply to any type of performance art. I'm thinking about getting it tattooed to my hand.
I just remember all the awful, awful advice I was given. Like: “Don’t go up unless you’re getting paid.” That was one thing I didn’t get early on. There was a lot of other shit that I totally believed in. I was too clueless to realize… That whole thing of like, that principle of non-abundance that everyone adhered to in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, which is, “Well if that guy gets something he’s taking something from you that you should be getting.” So it was all this competition and backstabbing. And up until a few years ago I still lived under that -- I would get jealous of even friends of mine, and secretly hope they would fail… It took me a while to realize that, wait a minute, if someone like Louie CK or Zach Galifianakis or Brian Posehn or Sarah Silverman gets through, or gets exposure, that just makes it better for all of us that do that kind of comedy. It’s not taking anything away from anyone, because there are so many different ways to make it. You should be responsible for your own thing. I just hate people that go, “Well, I wouldn’t have done that.” Yeah, ‘cause you didn’t. “I wouldn’t have done it that way.” Well you didn’t do it period so shut the fuck up. Where’s your better movie? Where’s your better TV show? You know?
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