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"Katy Perry and taking ****ing risks" - Nick Thune
Cocaine, Katy Perry, and taking ****ing risks
AN INTERVIEW WITH COMEDIAN/ACTOR NICK THUNE
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VG: Both of your previous two albums feature yourself on stage with a guitar. What made you decide to give up the guitar for your upcoming set?
NT: Cut to the inspirational portion of the interview. I think this might inspire a lot of students at the school: take ****ing risks. That’s all you can do. If you actually want to succeed at anything, and you get lazy or bored, and you put out the same thing with different words, then you’re uninspired and meaningless in this business.
So for me, taking a risk was dropping the thing that people identified [my routine] with. I never looked at it this way, but people would say it was a crutch or something, where it’s just something I did since I was nineteen and loved it. To step away from it, I realized I didn’t need it at all. You think you have to do something, but then you realize that it’s only up to you, to create what it is that you’re doing, and you just can’t look at what people expect. So yeah, there’s the long inspirational answer that I hope one kid reads and says, “Ahhh, I want to be this guy’s biggest fan. I love him.”
VG: Who would you say your influences are in the world of comedy?
NT: I think the real answer to that is Martin Mull. He used to be a TV personality in the ‘70s, not like the Tonight Show or anything, but a version of a talk show, and he was basically the first person to do that. Kind of innovative stuff for the ‘70s. Him and Steve Martin were actually roommates at one point, and they did a tour together called the Steve Martin Mull Tour. So that’s the boring answer that I’m sure all of the college kids are going to be like, “Oh, we can’t wait to see who this old guy is, that this other old guy says that he’s been inspired by.” So I guess the answer that I want the students to see is… I’d say Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are probably my biggest comedic influences. (Perfect, that’s what we were looking for.) Yeah, I’d appreciate it if you put that second answer.
http://psuvanguard.com/cocaine-kate-...****ing-risks/
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Interesting, inspirational read.
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