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Erik: What are you learning about creating more sustainable and durable comedy material?
Matt: I mean, in general I try to like what we call is evergreen. Things that don't get
old like a lot of time, you know, there's, especially with web stuff there's so much
focus on like, here's what happened today, you know, what's in the news or, you know,
something in politics that happened and everyone is gonna make a sketch right away about that
or something like that, which it is a good way to get attention in like an online forum
but as far as like comedy it just evaporates, it's just like, you know, it's not something,
you know, you can go on stage and talk about, you know, almost -- you know, most of the
time months or years later. So, I definitely think about that, and like whatever I'm gonna
-- it is hard enough to get anything to be funny, that I would, you know, rather focus
my efforts on something that's evergreen that I can keep going back to months or years down
the line. So, that factors in to choice of material and what you wanna talk about and
where you wanna go with things. And then I think it's a little bit related to what I
was talking about before in that, you know, if something is personal or deep or, you know,
something that happened with your family or, you know, something that you're insecure about,
or you know. There are things in life that are, you know, sort of permanent factors and
if you're, you know, talking about those things then you're gonna get a longer shelf life
out of them.