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RYAN: The people that I’m close to in my life know that I will talk
about them in my show, probably. But I always disguise and protect
people by changing names and places. If something happened to
my sister, I might say that it happened to my cousin, or my auntie, or
my friend’s sister. The analogy that I use is that I think politicians tell
a whole bunch of little lies, so you can’t really pin them down on any
because the words that they’re saying are true, but there’s a greater
lie. I think comedians tell little lies to construct a greater truth. I talk
about experiences and I tell the truth, but I change things around to
protect the people. [But] I’ll meet someone for five minutes, like a
taxi driver or someone in a shop, and it’s always those people that
are like, “Oh, don’t do stand-up comedy about me!” and I’m like
“What? I’ve known you for three minutes, I won’t.”
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