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Next up isCaleb Hearon.
What that decision came down to for me was,Look, youre about to graduate college.
And then its just the whole rest of your life.
Like, you do elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then college.
Okay, fear of regretting your one wild and precious life vibes!
I wanted to live in cities around artists and make dumb shit with people I love.
So Im doing that right now and IhopeIm funny enough and lucky enough to keep doing it.
Describe your comedy in five words.Powerful.
And a pinch of random.
I would be in perfect mental and physical shape.
Life would be simple and Bernie Sanders would be president.
Unfortunately, none of that is possible because if I dont tell jokes to strangers I will die.
Then after that stuff I think they will know me as the junior senator from Missouri.
That will start as a joke and end in me moving to D.C. to be sworn in.
Ive never posted the video of it online and I dont plan to.
I love the character and the piece a lot, and its incredibly stupid and weird.
But mybestwork is probably the voice memos I send to my friend Caitie Delaney.
Now our interactions are zero percent that and instead entirely online.
So Im focusing more on videos and digital stuff.
Zoom stand-up shows arent for me.
Instagram Live shows arent really for me.
Who are some of your favorite comedians right now?
There are so many people Im obsessed with.
Shelby Wolstein is brilliant and were about to release a podcast together.
Yassir Lester, Tim Dillon, and Janelle James crack me up consistently online.
The work Ive been most excited and inspired by recently isRighteous Gemstones.
Its so damn funny and everybody in it is perfect.
On the Chicks latest album Natalie Maines says, Will your dad pay your taxes now that Im done?
and Ive thought about it five times every day since first hearing it.
Holmes Holmes is a genius and my favorite collaborator.
The whole team in theHuman Resourcesroom makes me laugh so hard every day.
Its so embarrassing but I was like, Chris!
How did you stick with it when comedy got hard?
I think the context for that question was I had gotten a bad note at a college improv workshop.
Mortifying, mentally ill behavior.
He said something along the lines of: I didnt have other options.
I didnt really have a backup plan.
At that time I was sitting around every day dreaming up backup plans because I was anxious and scared.
I remember thinking,Ohhhhh, yourestillmaking backup plans because you dont believe in yourself.
Knock that shit off.
That was big for me.
As it turns out, he was sort of obsessed with being naked as a joke.
Youareinterviewing me for my work in Christian youth outreach, correct?
Theres been a sort of shared humanity in all of this that shouldnt be specific to quarantine.
And I hope all the guys I find hotter with facial hair dont feel like they have to shave.
