How to Be a Successful Comic on the Road

The big break for Sam was a comedy competition that he went in for that gave him a year's worth of road work. He kind of has the same mentality as Rogan and works through things with the crowd to see what sticks. It can be scary at first because there's a lot of pressure like you've got all these dates to perform I mean if you're just an open mica you can take time off whenever you want but if you're forced into like okay I'm headlining or opening up for others on all these dates like you can't get away from it you have to get after yeah. "You'd have to be really unfunny to not be able to improve drastically

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