Modi: As long as they're not out of their minds. MR: You respond to anyone who writes to you? I will always try to answer them, and great things happen from that I always try to answer anybody that wrote me anything on a DM or a comment on a post. There's a few moments I'll go through Instagram a little bit. MR: Do you monitor your screen time on your phone? I don't really eat meat unless it's kosher. Modi: 12 Chairs and a sushi place…I forgot the name of it. MR: What restaurant in New York do you think you order in from the most? There's events I go to where there's crazy amounts of food, but I try to eat well. MR: What about diet? Do you eat anything weird? Twice a week with a trainer and then the rest on my own. MR: Do you lift at the gym? Do you do cardio? Sometimes they have a knee jerk reaction, and they give you another line for it. I'll hit Gav or Leo or my friend Brian with it depending on the type of joke and see where it goes with them and what their thoughts are. Modi: There's a bunch of people, but the audience is the ones I go to the most. MR: Obviously I know you’re close with Gav – is there someone who's your first go to with something that you want to try out? And sometimes while I'm working out, the joke clears up a little bit for me. Before I go to the gym, I usually take a puff or two of weed. I'll tape it, see where it could be some tweaking. Then I come home, and I write it down in my new material page and when I go to the Comedy Cellar, I'll work it out. I go to my phone, and I text it to myself. I say something amongst friends, and I see that it's funny and so I write it down. Modi: I'm not the type to sit in front of a computer and starts to write out jokes. MR: What is the technical process of writing jokes? Do you handwrite? Do you make voice memos? When I work on new material and I post it online, and you see it's got 45,000 views – people have heard the joke. You can redo material, but I think now once it's up in TV or the Internet, it's done. Jackie Mason did a Broadway show for three years, the same act and we went back to see it every month. Modi: Listen, there’s comedian that did the same act for years. Modi: You can do an old routine here and there, but it can't be your main thing, you know? Once that special is out – that whole material – I can never do that on stage again. Modi: Well, he worked almost a year on a special and then did it, and once you do a special, you can't go back on stage and do anything from that. MR: I think Carlin was famous for throwing out material. But I have an arsenal of material that I go on stage with and I figure out what's the best thing to use and work on the new material for the arsenal. Unless you had a show that night or the day after, the shelf life expires. Especially when Trump was president, in two days, something else would happen that would make the joke irrelevant. There are things that obviously have a shelf life of two minutes. MR: Is that how you are with your material? I go often through my stuff and just throw things out, clear clutter and then better things and new things come. As soon as I stop wearing something, I throw it out. MR: Not shoes or books or anything like that? Modi: I'm so anti-hoarding and anti-tchotchke. Modi: Nothing like an art thing – he was just on the streets in Union Square. Modi: Wow…not many people get that right away. Modi: This is an amazing painting I found…what does it look like to you? Max Raskin: What’s that painting right behind you?
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