• 9 months ago
Interview with Josh Johnson
Transcript
00:00 Trevor Noah's famously been doing televised stand up for a minute.
00:05 I was wondering if there were any lessons that you learned touring with and
00:11 spending time with that dude that you've taken with you.
00:14 >> Yeah, there's almost too many to count, to be honest.
00:17 He's very gracious with the knowledge that he's willing to impart and everything.
00:25 There are some people who are super successful and don't want to share
00:28 their "secrets" or how they got.
00:32 He's always been very open and been a real mentor to me and everything,
00:40 which I can't even describe how much I appreciate
00:43 that when he didn't have to, didn't need to or anything.
00:47 Watching him and watching his approach to both comedy and stage presence,
00:55 and getting to tour with him was like a real masterclass in how
01:00 you handle all aspects of how he's developed his career.
01:05 Then also what goes into a special and
01:09 the thought process that you should be working on as you build out a special,
01:13 and what's meant for an overall piece to share with people once every year or two years,
01:21 and what's meant for touring and making the room feel
01:25 part of your act and part of your experience with them.
01:30 All these little things started to come together for me that really shaped how I
01:36 felt about both my comedy and where I was with my writing and my performance,
01:41 and then what I wanted to do with the special.
01:45 That's a lot of what I'm talking about even for the future is that,
01:49 there's a new wave coming and I'm excited to be a part of it,
01:55 but I think that a lot of people are going to be doing
01:58 beautiful things with stand-up soon that some of it won't even break
02:04 the traditional mold of like here I'm
02:06 staying on stage and the camera's pointed me for an hour.
02:08 But there's going to be people who make things where when you get done,
02:12 you're like, wow, that's very different.
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