My Dreams Are My Dress Rehearsals For

For One Of My Specials, I Said, "i'm Going To Make An Airplane Disappear." Okay! And The Next Day, Everything Went Crazy - It Was Like Breaking The Internet Before The Internet.

My Dreams Are My Dress Rehearsals For My Future.

As I Did More Of That, I Realized, "well, Maybe I Should Do More Magic."

I Was 16 At The Time, And I Came Backstage And Started Hanging Out With Them. I Said, "well, Maybe You Can 'vanish' The Silk This Way." The Opening Was A Black Stage While The "magic To Do" Song Started Playing. All You Saw Were Hands, Lit By Jules Fisher, And Then Ben Vereen Would Appear Beyond The Hands, And At The End Of The Scene He Would Vanish A Silk. The Spotlight Would Hit A Red Spot On The Floor Where You'd See The Silk On The Floor. He'd Pull The Silk Out Of The Floor And It Became The Entire Set Coming Out Of The Floor.

Reading [judd Apatow] Book, About His Background, I Think There's A Great Similarity. What Gives Him The Fire To Work Hard? He Worked Hard, Researching The Comedians Of The Time, What Touched Him About It.