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As long as you walk away from any experience, good or bad, with lessons and things you can take into the next experience, I don't think you can do anything but look back on it with an appreciation.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Appreciation
Lessons
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I feel like I've seen a lot of talented people, and some have gone on to great things, and some have gone on to successful careers and done alright but without great amounts of fame and recognition.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Alright
Careers
Great Things
Recognition
Great Done People
Great People Feel
Talented
Talented People
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I have worked in animation on 'King of the Hill.' I've worked in late-night with 'The Daily Show.' I've worked on single-camera stuff, whether it was a movie or television. I have performed onstage.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Animation
Daily Show
Late Night
Onstage
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The thing that I'm known for - at least, depending on what Subreddit you go to - is being a comedian. And so, even when talking about heavy things, I still want to try to use humor to walk us in the door.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian
Heavy
Depending
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Chris Nolan can put Batman in full body armor, have him drive a car that looks likes a tank, and make him political, and everyone says, 'Oh, that's OK.' But try making him Filipino, and everyone gets mad.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Armor
Filipino
Nolan
Batman
Chris
Tank
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Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.
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Aspect
Finish
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I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Caught
Daily Show
Cycle
Topical
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Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but it's just Australian Bill Cosby; or that's just British Bill Cosby; that's Pirate Bill Cosby.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Australian
Impression
Pirate
Variation
Accent
Bill Cosby
Cosby
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It's interesting to go places and see that, at the end of the day, people just want to feel safe, and what that looks like to them varies... but that was encouraging to see that there is more common ground than perhaps I realized.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Encouraging
Common Ground
End Of The Day Day People
Varies
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I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So, they get excited when they see Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show, but they kind of cross their arms until Patton Oswalt shows up.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Arms
People Will See
Cross
Patton
Show People
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There are plenty of people I've seen and thought that person is funny, or that person is really talented, and they've got something, but maybe the buying public doesn't see the same thing I see, or the stars don't align in the right way for them.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Buying
Right Way
Align
Talented
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I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Rethink
Standup
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There are things that are only palatable until they become uncomfortable for us, so it's very easy to complain about some problem the minute it becomes a problem for you. But you're okay with certain aspects of gentrification if they're the aspects you like.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Uncomfortable
Aspects
Complain
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There's always a certain concern whenever you go and shoot a field piece: that maybe all the elements won't come together, knowing that you have limited time to tell a story, hoping that you get all the elements you need, hoping the subjects are comfortable.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Concern
Elements
Limited Time
Subjects
Time Together Always
Hoping
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For me, funny is funny, and what's unfortunate is these comedians aren't being allowed to operate in rooms for everybody and that everybody can laugh and say, 'Okay, I find that person funny, and I don't just have to find them funny because they look like me.'
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Rooms
Unfortunate
Funny Me Look
Comedians
Funny Look Me
Operate
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I remember Tim Meadows gave me a radio. It was a radio he didn't want anymore. I gave it to my grandmother, and she had it 'til the day she died. To me, it was, 'I got a thing from Tim Meadows!' I think my grandmother was like, 'I got a thing from my grandson!'
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Grandson
Meadows
Me Remember Day
Tim
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I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Luck
Window
Work Good Great
Great Career
Huge Thing
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When you put comedy in the room it's supposed to be in, you start learning it's a process. Not everything is a home run. You have singles, and you ground a few out. But ultimately, it's the journey you have with that comedian, whether it's ten minutes or an hour.
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Comedian
Home Run
Singles
Ten Minutes
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The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian
Standup
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The majority of the DC and Marvel comic lines are white male characters, and the minute you make Thor a woman or Captain America a black guy, the Internet is filled with hateful comments and people saying, 'That's not what Captain America is supposed to look like.'
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Comic
Filled
Hateful
Internet
Lines
Majority
Captain
Captain America
Look Black People
Comments
Dc
Marvel
Minute
Saying
Supposed
Thor
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If you have a car, you tune it up; you replace the parts. You try to keep it in good shape. This country has tires that are shot, a bunch of engine problems, and rather than saying, 'Okay, let's maybe put some new parts in here,' we just keep putting gas in and driving forward.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Gas
Engine
Good Shape
Replace
Tires
Tune
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What's nice about a lot of Wes Anderson's films is that there's a patience to it. I think that patience brings out a lot more funny things that you would miss otherwise if you just had to make quick cuts and keep the pace, whatever that pace is that bigger budget comedies have to have.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Funny Things
Pace
Anderson
Budget
Comedies
Cuts
Quick
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I always found myself feeling that happiness rises and frustration trickles down. If the people at the top are frustrated, then everybody down the line feels that. But if the people at the bottom are happy and fulfilled, then they do their jobs a little better, and it goes up that way.
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Bottom
Frustrated
Rises
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When I was a kid, I loved really loud things. My grandmother and I went to the Fulton Mall, and I bought a three-piece suit that was paisley. Paisley over the whole suit. I was 6 and thought it was great. My mother took a photo of me in it, sent it to my grandmother, and burned the suit.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Burned
Loud
Paisley
Great Mother Me
Photo
Mall
Suit
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I wrote this 12-page 'Luke Cage' comic book for Marvel once, and I got to create a villain. His name was Lone Shark, so there was this running thing of whether it was spelled L-O-A-N or L-O-N-E. I like the idea of 'I'm a lone shark,' and then people are like, 'You are here to collect a debt?'
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Running
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Debt
Lone
Luke
Villain
Name
Cage
Idea
Collect
Create
Marvel
Shark
Whether
Wrote
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I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something like that. It's very much like holiday work as far as, okay, I do it, and I'm there for two weeks and hopefully am working really hard, and then it's done, and I kind of go back to what I was doing before.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Holiday
Two Weeks
Work Movies Doing
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I did a movie a few years back, 'Medicine for Melancholy.' People will come up to me after a set and say, 'I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?' Or 'I loved you on 'The Daily Show.' Why did you leave?' It's kind of the same as saying, 'I loved you in high school. You should have never left.'
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Daily Show
Medicine
Melancholy
Love Daily Me
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I enjoy 'Life Aquatic.' I think that one, from a visual standpoint, is just such a fun, visual movie to look at, whether it's the shots of the ship cut down the middle, that set where you can see everyone in each of their rooms doing whatever and moving about - something like that, I could watch that on a loop for an hour.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Enjoy Life
Rooms
Standpoint
Visual
Loop
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I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Comedian
Fascinating
Hbo
Myself People Way
Chris
Chris Rock
Comedians
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There's so many shows, whether it's 'Last Week Tonight' or 'The Daily Show' or 'Full Frontal' or 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' that are really doing great stuff talking about what's going on in the world and what's going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Daily Show
Tonight
Great Stuff
Winds
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For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local and very personalized to communities, to cities, to legislators, and so, in that way, I think as we started looking into talking about policing, the thing that you realize is that you can't paint everything with the same brush.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Legislators
Paint
Personalized
Brush
Me Looking Way
Policing
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One of the things that I was kind of holding on to from 'The Daily Show' was there was an exhaustion that I would feel because we just kind of got caught up in the news cycle. You tell a story, and that's an interesting story, and then the next day we have to drop it and talk about something else. That's so unfair to the story and the people.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
Caught
Daily Show
Exhaustion
Holding On
Unfair
Cycle
Drop
Holding
Just Kind
Something Else
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A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.
Wyatt Cenac / Stand-Up Comedian
American Identity
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