It's not pretentious if it's backed up by skill. The way he could deliver lines that he practiced and workshopped for literally a decade was masterful. Saying t

It's not pretentious if it's backed up by skill. The way he could deliver lines that he practiced and workshopped for literally a decade was masterful. Saying that that isn't hard is what's pretentious - go up to an audience - a sometimes adversarial audience, and tell a joke sometime. And he didn't say he was a, "little dark poet" while sitting around in a comfy chair with some literally intellectual, it was part of a bit. He said it while bending down, looking through a small opening made between his thumb and forefinger, with a nasally screech in his voice. Like, "this is all I am, this little turd". And we're all that little turds too, that he's looking at, through that opening. That's good stuff. Anyways, "It's all just a ride"