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OCR: me of something he told me about the effects of doing stand-up when he used to tour the country performing. "I'd be on the road, and I'd do a show. Some nights I'd go home and feel great. And some nights I'd go home and really feel down. It took me years to figure out that it was exactly related to how the show went." "BAD PAINTING IS STILL CALLED ART, but only great comedy is called art. Bad comedy is just terrible." "Stand-up has a certain kind of anxiety connected with it, because the thing that makes it thrilling, the thing that eventually kills you is that you are completely, 100 percent, entirely responsible. When I was doing my act and was hot, no one could tell me anything. They couldn't say, 'Don't do that joke tonight.' They couldn't say, 'I think you ought to start with this; our MENU