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The Early Days of Stand Up Comedy
"I was this guy who always wanted to get out of the Midwest," he said. "When I got to New York, I realized how truly white bread I am." He says stand up is now much more of a middle-class occupation than it was in his early days. The comedian's parents paid for his college but steered him away from studying psychology or sociology.