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- What's up, guys?

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(chuckling) This is Sam Jay.

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I'm here with The A.V. Club

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and I'm about to answer a
few questions for y'all.

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Let's get into this.

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(chill music)

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Can you tell us how you
came up with the idea

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for "Saturday Night
Live's" Black Jeopardy?

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I didn't.

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(chuckling) I get this question a lot.

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Black Jeopardy was a sketch

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that it was already there
way before I got there.

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I wanna say it's the invention

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of Michael Che and Bryan Tucker.

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But I did write on the Chadwick Bozeman

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Black Jeopardy sketch,

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but I did not come up with
the idea for Black Jeopardy.

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I just helped write one of
the Black Jeopardy sketches

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that exist.

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So that's the final answer,

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and I'm never going to
answer this question again.

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So that was an A.V. Club
exclusive, look at that.

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Who is your favorite
guest to write for on SNL?

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Charles Barkley.

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That's really easy,
'cause he was super fun,

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he was down to clown, and we
wrote a very silly sketch.

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Well, a very silly sketch that got cut,

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but it was super funny,
and he had on a dress

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and he knocked a person through a wall.

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So we had a really good time with Charles,

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and he was just down to clown,

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so I would say Charles Barkley.

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What's the secret to writing a good joke?

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Living a good life.

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That's the secret to writing a good joke.

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Just getting out, getting experiences,

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interacting with people, traveling.

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I think all of that just influences

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your joke writing and your perspective,

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which I think the best jokes

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have a lot of perspective in 'em.

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Kind of a nerdy answer, but said it.

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How old were you when you
started to perform standup?

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What inspired you to go for it?

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I was 29.

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So I tried it at 22,

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but when I really started
doing standup, I was 29.

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And life, really.

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I just wanted to give it a shot.

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I felt like I was getting older

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and I didn't wanna regret
anything in my life,

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so I just jumped out there
on a hunch and a hope,

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and saw what happened.

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What is your personal favorite episode

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of "Pause With Sam Jay?"

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"Titties Out" is my
personal favorite episode,

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though they would never let
us call it "Titties Out,"

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but it's the episode with the
studs with their breasts out,

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and at the end, I take my breasts out.

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And it was just a transformative
episode for me, personally.

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So it's my favorite one.

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I hold it near and dear to my heart.

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How do you want to make
your talk show different

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from some of the others on air right now?

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I just always want "Pause" to
be a place where you can go

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and feel like you're
hearing real conversations

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that are actually happening in the world.

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(chill music)