The secret to good comedy: It has to be funny first #standup #podcastclips #eli

You ever started a job and it's completely different than what the job description was? Like I should have said, "Okay, you're going to take the people out of Egypt and you're going to bring them to the promised land." Okay, fine. And Google's like, "What? Goshen to Eilat is what? I don't know, 4 days?" Okay, no problem. But 1 year, 2 years, 40 years. He's like still doing this. Moshe was like the first real president. People will say, "Why do you do comedy?" I'm like, "I don't have other skills." I started realizing Jewish humor is such a fertile ground of material. There's so much to talk about. I objected to make fun of part partly because I don't think I'm making fun of. I think I'm in on the joke. They're finding the humor in things. When did you feel like you made it? I still don't. It's imposter syndrome. If I saw somebody who isn't particularly religious anymore likes my joke, I'm like, "All right, I got this guy to learn a little Kabbalah in me. I got this guy to learn a little bit of Torah kind [music] of." Or at least I made him aware this is the parsha, which I think is a little nice thing. The driving force and this is what I'll tell to any sketch that we have sponsored, they say, "Can you make it a commercial for uh you know?" And I'm like, "No, no, no, no. This has to be funny first. It has to be funny so that people enjoy it and pass it along to your WhatsApp group organically and say, "You got to see this thing." I do comedy full time and people are like, "What do you do all day?" I'm like, "I audit."