I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

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• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more p

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you i

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. Pe

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never em

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you kn

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than e

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.

• Anthony Jeselnik:

  I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.