MK: Essentially, I don’t have a huge strategy with it. I mostly just tweet a thing a day and then if people tweet things back at me, and I can say more funny things back to them about that thing or them, I will do that.

 

Because Twitter is a thing where everybody is limited by the same form, there is actually more competition for the ideas. I remember I tweeted something for #snackbands, Oreo Speedwagon, and somebody else had already tweeted Oreo Speedwagon, and that’s the kind of thing that happens. 

 

JCS: Do you have any reservations with your jokes on Twitter perpetuating people’s original impressions of you as a short-form, wordplay comic?

 

MK: I think that is a good question. It’s not like I’m a storyteller now. Stylistically, that is still the form I do. There are still a lot of jokes; I still get through things quickly. I don’t think listening to my album does me a disservice. A late night set, like Twitter, still pushes comics toward a shorter form. Like when Rich Vos was on one of the first seasons of Last Comic Standing, millions of people saw him do his TV-clean set. They were like, “That’s great, I love Rich Vos.” Then they go out to a club and see him and he’s filthy, he does a lot of crowd work. He’s very good at the thing he does but that was not necessarily fully encapsulated by the TV set that he did because TV has its limits in both form and content. So if someone was to just watch my late night set, they might think, “That guy always comes out and tells ten jokes then leaves.” 

 

In my WTF interview with Marc Maron, he was asking me about the kinds of jokes I was doing. He was, I guess I can use the word ‘dismissive’, like, “that’s the kind of joke that you’re telling?” I’ve relived it in my head and thought, “Oh, I could go back and point out that sometimes he makes jokes with words.” The fact is that we’re all comedians and we all use words. Since then he’s put out a list of five comedians to watch, sometime early this year. I was one of them and he said something like, “I wasn’t on board with the kind of thing he does, but then I was like, well, he knows what he’s doing, it works.” It was as much of a compliment as I could expect to get from him.