"This Is My Favorite Song tells the story of me as a comedian before and after my dad died of COVID in June 2020. He got put on a ventilator in March 2020 and then he was in a coma for a couple months. That was kind of the first very bad thing that had ever happened to me in my life and affected what I found funny and whether I even wanted to be writing or performing at all."
"I came back to the city to try to get back into performing, and I was hating performing. But then I wrote this song, 'I Don't Want to Do This Show,' and it sparked something new. I had always done these really elaborate one-person musicals that would go on for around seven minutes. But this new song was about how I didn't want to perform anymore because I was too depressed, and it got me thinking, Maybe I should write a show about this."
"Back when I was just doing comedy shows, rehearsing just meant that if someone was in the house, I would sing the song I wrote under my breath until I generally knew what I was going to perform. And I'd make a track. On the way to the show, I'd listen to the track, sing it in my head, or even just mouth it. I really was not diligent about rehearsing before performing comedy shows where I was only doing a song."
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