But just as importantly - and this is the part I may not get right and you may not listen to - if you do get your dream, you are not a winner.” So whatever your dream is right now, if you don’t achieve it, you haven’t failed, and you’re not some loser. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. And I love it, because thankfully dreams can change. Today, I am a beardless, suburban dad who lives in a house, wears no iron khakis, and makes Anthony Weiner jokes for a living. He dreamed of living alone - well, alone with his beard in a large, barren loft apartment, lots of blonde wood, wearing a kimono, with a futon on the floor and a Samovar of tea constantly bubbling in the background, doing Shakespeare in the street for homeless people. “You have been told to follow your dreams, but what if it’s a stupid dream? For instance, Stephen Colbert of 25 years ago lived at 2015 North Ridge with two men and three women in what I now know was a brothel. Stephen Colbert at Northwestern University, 2011 It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can be a catalyst for profound reinvention.” But the point is this: it is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. And none of us are - my peers and I have all missed that mark in a thousand different ways. David Letterman wanted to be Johnny Carson, and was not, and as a result my generation of comedians wanted to be David Letterman. And yet his failure to completely become his hero made him the funniest person of his generation. He emulated Jack Benny, but his own quirks and mannerisms, along with a changing medium, pulled him in a different direction. In some ways he was, but in many ways he wasn’t.
And a much younger man named Johnny Carson wanted very much to be Jack Benny.
He was a giant star and easily one of the greatest comedians of his generation. “Way back in the 1940s there was a very, very funny man named Jack Benny.
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