You were doing well enough that the Booker for The Tonight Show saw you and said, Johnny is gonna love this guy and offered you a slot on the Tonight Show.

To which you said I said No, thank you.

People were killing for that.

What?

What were you thinking?

I mean, you know, e have a lot of delusions of grandeur, But one of the things I was thinking was like, I'm not changing my act to go on the side because remember, even though people loved it, there was something What?

I grew up watching Pryor and Carlin.

So even though they went on the tonight show, they kind of look down on it.

So I didn't notice that I wasn't prior or calling right.

And so I figured he told me, You just can't you know you can't curse on.

There I go.

Forget it, then, s O, they said, Just calling.

You can come on the show.

It's gonna change your life overnight you'll be one of the biggest comics in America at such a young age.

All we ask is that you don't curse.

And you refused.

Yeah, I said no.

That's all right then.

You know, I don't need you know what I mean?

Like, I didn't need that wasn't gonna be on my meet.

My medium was not gonna be there.

Just tell me with this.

When the Booker for the Tonight Show who's never heard anybody turned them down, had you on the phone.

What person?

What's this in person?

It was in person.

You were talking to the book of the Tonight Show in person at the Improv in L.

A.

Yeah, and they come up to you and they say, Okay, column.

We think you're ready, and you say no.

What did they say?

He started laughing.

He couldn't believe it.

He couldn't believe he just started laughing.

He goes.

What?

What?

He was just laughing at me.