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I'm Melinda Hill and I have a comedy show called Tiger Lily.
I found an alley out back where I asked people what they wanted to be when they grew up.
This is All Growz Up. Please welcome our guest, Mo Mandel!
That's not actually my name, it's, uh, it's Man-Del.
What did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be something different every week, but I remember my brother and I
would always do this thing where like if I wanted to be like
a cop or something and my brother wanted to be like the president
we, our beds were in the same room and at night I remember he'd be like,
Hey do you think I'm gonna be the president? And if I was like, no, he'd be like,
Okay then I don't think you're gonna be a cop. And I'd be like - well, alright then I think you're gonna be the president!
And he'd be like okay, then I think you're gonna be a cop.
At what point did comedian enter in?
Well, comedian was funny. I really wanted to be a novelist, and I wrote a novel in college and I was like,
you know, I used to write short stories all the time, and then they get to some
point it was like,
No one wants to read this. It's very hard to be like, hey would you read this
300-page angsty f***ing prose?
Not enough sex in it? Right there was not a lot of sex, it was very true to form.
No photos. But at first I was like, you know, with standup you can write something and like
you literally can just come into a restaurant
You know, yell at people and make them hear it. So you could ambush them with your
creat- your creativity. Oh they'll listen. After a while you do comedy and you're like,
I am not qualified to do anything else. You know, you're like I've been doing this for nine years,
My resume is non-existent. You know, you can't be like,
Call this guy Bud who runs the Chuckle Nuts in f***ing Milwaukee, he'll tell you I'm responsible.
Like there's nothing else you can do. So, you know, you do webseries.
What is the weirdest, worst show you've ever had?
I, uh, once got hired to do a hanukkah party
in Miami by Birthright. And there were all these like drunk, rowdy Miami people and
they wanted - they were gonna like the hanukkah candles
and then I was gonna tell some jokes. And how they were gonna light the candles, people started
heckling them and throwing ice, and it was like,
Dude, if these people are heckling the candle lighting,
they're really not going to be into the punchlines. And they were not.
I did a show one time in Detroit, and a woman, she's like hey I really liked your show, come outside
And I'm like, oh great! Let's play
lip games and I came out there and she's like, look! And she had written my name in chalk
all down the sidewalk. And she was like, I did the other side of the street too!
I was like, oh cool I'm gonna get my camera and we're just gonna document this
And I ran out of there. And then later on the week I ended up making out with her. She came to another show
And I was like, that was her Wednesday persona.
She's good now though. Rain washed away the psychosis. I'm just gonna get down with her.
How was the make out?
Pretty good.
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