tavis: i love paul reiser. >> and we shared a love for comedy. we could lip-synched the records, and he told me, paul, he said, during the summer i go to these comedy clubs in manhattan, and i auditioned. night, and itoned sounded very exciting to me, so i went, and i watched paul at one of these audition nights, and i thought, i have got to get into this racket, because if you want to be a comedian, you just get a number during the day, and at night, you go on, and then you are a comic, and that is what i loved about it and still love it this day. it is very low tech. you go on, and there you are. tavis: you make it sound so easy. i have tried this. minutese, i did five one night, and i thought i would die, just trying to get out alive. >> it is not for the squeamish. tavis: it is not for the squeamish, and, again, because when you broke again it was such a boys club, how did you manage the stage fright, or was there no stage fright for you? what when i perform, i still think i get a good amount of butterflies. i think a performer should be conc