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I wouldn't say I'm *friends* with them, but I am certainly friendly with a few members of my favorite rock n roll band, which shall remain nameless, but if you know me at all,you know who I am talking about. I even done a little work for them.
Anyway, last time they were in town I got to kick it back stage with them, and even got them marijuana. I haven't like such a nerd since Junior High School. I felt horrendously out of place. They shoulda at least offered me a drink. Oh, and I am sitting here with Suge Knight as I type this. |
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In this case, your fascination is not any kind of sick narcissism. I like you. Our facebook communications have been enjoyable, it was fun hanging out at the show near where you lived, and I imagine it would be fun to be in the same place again sometime. The lines between friendship and friendly can always be blurry. For most of my friendships, communication happens with greatest frequency over the internet. Certainly there are people I call and people who call me, but in this technological age, facebooking and emailing are where a lot of relating to people take place. And of course, that's where communications with fans happen as well, so this is a good question. I would say the thing that keeps me from becoming friends with more of my fans is not a lack of trust but a lack of time. At this stage of my career, I certainly wouldn't use the word "celebrity" to describe myself, and I can't really imagine that any fan who wants to spend time with me wants to do so just because I'm famous, rather than because they have seen me on a thing or in a thing or at a thing and like my work or the person they perceive me to be (which is probably close to the person I am). Especially because I meet people all over the country now, so new connections are potentially happening all the time, and I always like to respond to people who email or facebook me or what have you, and if people keep writing back and saying interesting things that I want to keep writing back to, then great, I have a new friendly, let's say. At this point, I'm fairly capable of responding to the level of fan/friendly communications that I get. And especially with something like KATG, where it's so interactive and fans and friends mingle with guests and comedians at events and parties, and also where so many of the fans are actually very cool people that a friendship might bloom if one were to meet them in life separate from the show, it's certainly a different brand of celebrity/fandom than seeing the guy who played Kenny Banya on Seinfeld in a Diner 15 years ago and getting your picture taken with him (which I did). He and I are not friends. I don't know if he's sad because I was the only person who ever wanted his picture and I missed an opportunity because he was hurting for friends. So maybe he'll see me in a diner someday. Or do you think he listens to this show and reads the forums? Kenny, I'm here. Getting off topic a little, think I said most of what I wanted to say. Which is to say, I'm taking applications for new friends. Time to give the ones I have some healthy competition to stay on the team. That's how friendship works for me! Love, Regular human Myq PS My not exchanging phone numbers was actually not a calculated move, per se, but part laziness/forgetfulness that it needed to be done by a certain time, and part realization that I was busy with other activities the afternoon into evening of the bingo event in question. Next time, maybe that will be different. (Or if you got an internet phone, then none of this would have been an issue, because emailing would have been as simple as texting.) |
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---- The way I go about life is to know that every person has something to offer me, and it is only a factor of being ready for it, and taking it in properly that stops me from gelling with people, or if they aren't ready for what I have to offer them. I can go on and on about my thoughts on Human Interaction (TM). The drawback is that I don't follow a lot of social norms and so have trouble connecting to people who are in a different place culturally or socially. |
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That will cover it, hopefully. Or maybe "Something serious." One of those, whichever more appropriate. Maybe "most appropriate epitaph." I think I agree with you about being humanistic. Unless it means being racist against humans. Then I also think I agree with you. PS Regarding your fan mold, is it contagious? Will I die from it? Epitaphed! Quote:
Though apparently we don't even need to go that far, because we can just communicate openly (very) here! So, what do you think about all the rest of these jerks? (Oops.) Quote:
And yes, Marc seemed to want to dig deeper into my interior to find the rage that lurked within. And honestly, I imagine that I could (if I wanted to) tap into the unhappiness that I experienced during my teenage years, but even more honestly, it's much easier for me to experience the positivity that I feel in juxtaposition to those times, where I'm just thankful that there ARE people that don't make me feel the way I did then, that there ARE ways to be that make me feel good in general. So while there may be a layer of unhappiness beneath my positive exterior, I think that beneath that layer is a core of more positive interior. Like an oreo cookie, if the cream was hate, but wasn't that thick or delicious. Or a better analogy. Friendly, Myq |
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To keep on track of this thread, how many non-comedian friends have you made in the last 4 years? vs how many comedian friends? And do you actually consider them real friends or just people to network and spend down-time with? Just curious. |
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I don't know if I've said this on the show (so pardon if it's repetitive), but friendship in the comedy world is an interesting animal... Because as I understand it, friendship for most people would involve seeing people in the evenings, say, when you're not at work. But for comedians, evenings are when work is. So you're hanging out at a bar with people every night, but certainly they're not all necessarily your friends. So for me, a judgment of friendship in the comedy world requires my desire to see them OUTSIDE of comedy happenings, or the "down-time" you speak of, I imagine. e.g. There have been some comedian colleagues who I enjoyed spending time with at work, and then started talking outside of comedy and hanging out in non-comedy situations. Or taking advantage of the time we spend together IN comedy situations, because for comedians, a lot of the time that exists IS comedy time. Like, driving to a far-away show, which one could do with someone you like OR someone you don't like as much; so it's possible, I imagine, to be involved in similar situations with some people that you consider friends and others that you don't. So it is complicated. Also maybe relevant to your question of "down-time" companionship--I was just working in Madison, and hung out with the feature for a lot of the daytime time, eating meals, walking around, chatting. We didn't know each other before, and I would consider us friendly now, but I don't know how much we'll be communicating unless we're in the same place again. And if you asked me "are we friends," I don't know, I'd probably say "We're friendly," or "He's a good guy," or "it doesn't really matter, who cares about such categorization." Sorry if that's boring or doesn't matter or is non-responsive to the question you raised. As for how many friends I made in the past four years, I have no idea. But I know that PROBABLY lots of them were comedians. And then maybe some friends of comedians who hang out at shows. Or some of them were probably classmates/co-workers/fellow Boston University inhabitants, where I lived and worked up until about two years ago. So I think pretty much most of my friends came through work (either as a comedian or otherwise) or friends of friends (who were probably acquired through work). And because most of my work in the recent past has been comedy-related, most of my friends have probably been acquired through comedy relations. I tried to go looking back through emails to find out how many new people I started communicating with, but that's a project I'd probably need an an intern for, and one that I trusted completely to go through my email, so it would have to be a friend as well. A trusted friendly intern. Maybe a project for another time. |
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