Dying Laughing | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians. | dG1fNG1XWmVJZ01PNjg

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00:00Comedy is purely a result of your ability to withstand self-torture.

00:09A lot of comedians just laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh.

00:14I like laugh, boo, laugh.

00:20When you walk out on stage, the only thing you can do is grab the reins and just try to ride it.

00:26They'll know when it's a set joke, and they'll know when it's coming from your heart.

00:34It doesn't matter how long you've been doing stand-up comedy.

00:36You are never exempt from a bad night.

00:41See, when you heckle me, you're trying to hurt my feelings.

00:43Just know I'm dead on the inside.

00:46It's definitely not, like, a great way to invest in your romantic life.

00:51There's got to be a secret, right?

00:53Well, Kevin, I didn't see it.

00:56I'm like, see what? What are you talking about?

00:59Potential.

01:01I don't think you have what it takes to be a comedian.

01:03I said, god damn, to my face?

01:07NEXT!

01:11Not doing well as a comedian is an existential crisis.

01:14I've had 500 people in a room, and it's been going so badly that at the back of the room, I heard...

01:32We live for the thirst of laugh at us.

01:35And when you take that from us, you know, a little bit of us dies.

01:41I'm telling them something that really happened to me, to try to get out of someone wanting to fight me right now.

01:46There was a guy who punched me on stage.

01:48I'm saying literally, uh, through Chazie.

01:50People have no filter.

01:52When I was younger, it used to just literally, it would kill me.

01:55And now I'm able to, uh, float through it now because, uh, I have money.

02:01I have money.

02:02I'm so very famous.

02:03All the heralding, the awarding, the trumpeting, the lauding, who cares?

02:11That laugh is better than any trophy.

02:13And that's what I live for.