Story – Robert McKee's Creative Storytelling Magazine Issue 005 – Drew Carey | Page 32

MCKEE
INTERVIEWS
MARK WHITNEY
MW: You don’t have any way to
know.
RM: You have no way to know
except your own taste—your
own judgment. With stand-up,
you get the message real fast,
real clear. When you make it,
you understand immediately
that you’ve made it.

out their shit.
RM: Because they have to
work.
MW: They have to work. People
like Wyatt Cenac, who now writes
for the Daily Show, performed in
my theater. Anthony Jeselnik, who
writes for Jimmy Fallon, performed
down there.

MW: Right.
RM: Because they laugh. It’s so
pure.
MW: It is. Like you say, if they’re not
laughing, you’re failing.
I owned a comedy theatre in San Diego for a while called the San Diego
Comedy Co-op. I told everyone that
came there to perform—Hollywood
headliners would come d