One man's journey around the world to discover the secret of comedy. | dG1fRTg4Tng2NVg1YVE
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00:00ever since i was young i had the singular dream of being a stand-up comedian there's a guy that
00:14pissed himself is it something you do every night it's not part of the act oh well that's
00:19definitely hilarious i'm not even on stage i'm getting heckled what i want to know is how bad
00:24are you do you think i should stick with it i think you should even quit being a journalist
00:28there's a really good hardware store near here you can get a rope you get a little stool uh very
00:33yeah yeah put it on your credit card you're not even gonna have to pay
00:41my office now you've been doing more stand-up gigs haven't you this year we decided to spend
00:47the money on the comedian not many smiles after the year we had not since we lost 40 percent of
00:52the staff cutbacks no office fire i've been dying on my ass every night we are doing
00:58a comedy special really do you have a nine to five job well i do now yeah and how do you feel
01:03doing it dead inside you are being sent to la to make the hollywood comedians in particular
01:09dustin stratford you'll never get dustin stratford i want him on the cover oh that's where i want him
01:16and loads of pages in the middle mr mulligan first time in la it's mullinger isn't it just left a load
01:22of messages about dustin dustin's on a break dustin's not interested in giving any interviews he wasted a
01:27trip what do you put your success down to being funny i guess and uh chowing down on a lot of
01:32producer dawn don't think that being a successful comedian it's not really about being funny is it
01:37what that produce sarcasm if you had to do it all again what would you do differently are we not
01:42sitting in an awesome malibu beach house life is sweet thank you
01:48how's the stand-up going there i gave it up maybe i shouldn't be doing this well i think you're funny
01:53you're already making me laugh i just wanted to be a comedian if it's something that's important to
01:57you you have to fight for it you need to go out there discover yourself it's james mullinger
02:06that you can trick 13 year old school girls have tweeted less cliche bollocks what really gets me is
02:12you travel halfway around the world just to see some frat movie stars balls get mugged and pissed on by some
02:19inbred hillbilly don't get me wrong that kind of stuff was fun back in my uni days but i never
02:24thought i'd make a career out of it i love that british hill what he doesn't know is that the
02:30comedian's guide to survival says who are you talking to who's up there