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Which of your characters[br]do you have the most compassion for?

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Denny.

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Denny from "Choke".

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God, I can tell this story now,

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because I hope I didn't tell[br]this story two years ago.

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Denny is named after[br]a friend of mine

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who died of hepatitis.

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I think, sexually contracted hepatitis.

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So, one of those weird,[br]strange, like, hepatitis D,

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that comes from nowhere.

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And people get it, their liver[br]is gone and they die.

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And Denny was just the sweetest, [br]dumbest guy, but he had like this --

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this really enlightened dumbness.

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And when I was little,[br]when I first...

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God, I can't even remember...

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When I first learnt[br]how to jack off, okay?

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When it happened -- [br]sort of accidentally --

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and you think: "Whooah!"

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And this is such a bourgeois child [br]that I was, I thought --

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"I've invented something!"[br](Laughter)

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I'm gonna make so much money!

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(Laughter)

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Everybody's gonna want[br]to learn how to do this!

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(Laughter)

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I am gonna be king of the world!

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I can give seminars!

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(Laughter)

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I'm like, what, 12 years old... you know?

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Thinking, instantly going --

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"I can turn this into money."

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"I can parlay this --[br]this handful of cum --

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"this is gonna make me rich!"

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(Laughter)

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I was so fucking disappointed!

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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My mom's like...[br](Knocking)

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knocking on the bathroom door,

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and I'm like, "I'm doing market research!"

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(Laughter)

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"Shut up, I'll make you rich!"

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So I wrote that in this Denny's character.

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Denny does that in "Choke"[br]because combining that --

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that sort of sweet stupidity --

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with my friend Denny --[br]who is dead --

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I just love that as a character...

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You know, a real character [br]that I felt something for.

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And I don't typically like my characters.

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It's much more interesting,[br]and there's a lot more sort of energy,

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in creating a character [br]that says stuff that you don't like.

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Because then you have to sort of [br]make a case and research,

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and eloquently present something

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that is not necessarily [br]your own viewpoint.

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And that's always [br]so much more of a challenge!

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So, you don't have to like the character,

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you don't even have to like[br]or believe what they are saying.

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They just have to be [br]really well developed.

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And you have to make a real case[br]for what they're saying.

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And Denny is possibly the only character [br]I've ever written that I liked.

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Let's call it good at that!

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I don't have any more funnier stories[br]than that, so... thank you!

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(Applause)