Nice little lady looks the worst.

Her shoes are, wow, this is amazing.

How did it feel?

How did it feel?

Uh it felt great.

Been here before to see concerts but out in the audience, obviously I hear you turned down the Bennett gig.

Yeah, I did.

You said you wouldn't even come to the phone?

Well that was more susie.

But yes.

Okay, let's put aside for a moment that I went to bat for you for that job.

I mean, really, I turned down that price three times.

No, she can't work for that.

You have any idea what you're getting here?

That's on me.

You didn't ask me to do that.

So I'm the schmuck there, but I couldn't really figure out why.

So I asked around, I don't know were you being blacklisted again?

Did the baldwin thing hurt you that much?

I'm at Carnegie Hall.

I've got five minutes where?

Maybe I can help you before I'm thrown out of the club again.

But then I heard that you were turning down gigs right and left.

I made a decision to do things my way.

I'm sorry.

What does that mean?

It means I just want to say what I want to say.

Why am I explaining this to you?

Why?

Because my mind is blown.

That's why I don't understand.

No, opening act gigs.

Yes, that's true.

Yes, that's true.

I told you about the manifesto.

Do you understand that?

This is a business like anything else.

You get hired?

You get paid.

You understand that?

Yes, yes.

And the trick is to get good and get paid, I get paid at the Woolford, Come on one thing, You're not as dumb, Wait a minute.

You never compromise.

You get up on stage knowing the police could be there or hell that they are there and you say whatever the hell it is you want anyhow, why is it wrong for me to want to do the very same thing christ midge?

What a pedestal you put me on.

Getting arrested is not a badge of honor.

Getting arrested means I can't work where I want to work.

People are afraid of booking me.

It's exactly the opposite of what I want for myself.

But do you know how much I hate knowing that half the people that come to see me are hoping I'm gonna get popped, hoping they'll have some great story to tell their friends over cheese and crackers.

I want people to laugh, think and laugh, sure, but laugh.

I'm a comic, an entertainer, baggy pants, banana peels some other stand up messiah.

This is what I want.

This is what I have worked for.

Don't you want this, don't you want to be here?

Don't you wanna know 1000 mental patients brave the snowstorm to see you.

That should be the goal.

How do you know it's not because you're not gonna get here hiding yourself away in a club that technically doesn't exist.

I'm not hiding.

You sure is hiding.

So what you got dumped by baldwin who gives a ship?

Go get another gig and another and another.

So I'm just supposed to get fired from one job after another.

Yes, If that's what it takes.

Listen to me.

I have made a lot of mistakes and I'm gonna keep making a lot of mistakes.

But one thing is crystal clear in my mind and it's what the end game is really.

So that's what the bag.

No, do not make this about me.

This is about you.

You wanted me to remember.

You're funny right that night You didn't want me to think of you as just a girl.

You wanted me to think of you as a comic.

Don't you forget that I'm a comic too.

Don't you dare look at me as someone to be pitied or helped or fixed.

I do not want or need that.

Especially from you.

I don't want to fix you.

90% of this game is how they see you.

They see you hanging with Tony Bennett.

They think you deserve to be there.

They see you hold off to jail for saying a strip club.

They think you deserve that.

Also wise up, I'm not hiding.

I have a plan.

Don't plan work.

Just work and keep working.

There is a moment in this business windows open.

If you miss it the closest just don't Mhm If you blow this midge, I swear.

Mhm.

Mhm.

You will break my heart, Dad?

Why'd you name yourself?

Richard because I want to be rich.

Did you wash your hands?

You ever use smoked same heart attack?

Different afterlife?

Even if I did know where the antichrist was, I wouldn't tell you were on the opposite side.

I rather enjoy being on Fleek.

I eat a bug.