From Rachel Mason’s Interview with John Mulaney
RM: What would your advice be to someone who is looking to write comedy for a living?
JM: Well with comedy in general, start doing it non-professionally for an audience. If I had known before I was twenty that you could just go to open mics or start your own comedy show at a bar, I would have done it earlier. Start a sketch show, write things. You have to do it to do it. And you can’t do it in a bubble. You have to do it for some audience, be it the editor of a magazine you send a piece to, or the audience at a tiny theater where you organize some sketch show. (pause) Or the much better idea of doing it online. I don’t know why I’m talking like it’s 1981 and people can’t do that. Point being, people see it and reach out to you from it. And you go from there.
