a fierce and legal fight over water is playing out in one arizona community wracked by drought. their water bills are higher than their monthly mortgage payments and that was before the city cut them off. here s some of what they told cnn s lucy kafanov recently. take a listen. what keeps you up at night. water, water, water. reporter: others harvesting rainwater as an extra buffer. this is the stockpile about to go in the house used to flush our toilets. reporter: many homeowners rely on private water deliveries from nearby scottsdale which no longer has enough to spare. so that was, remember, back in october. those vital water deliveries ended this month and now some are suing. lucy is joining us as well as
going to say this. there s more explication. there s more explanation, not so much, you know, not so much stuff that s going to take away from the gag. you can do it in an economical way. but i find that when i look at the totality of my show, it used to be, like, 200 laughs. now, it s, like, 150 laughs but you need that extra buffer. you need to kind of explain yourself. you have overseen the royal shakespeare company in, if i can put it this way, the sort of beginnings of the age of woke a discussion, particularly in this country but not just in this country, which involves culture in a discussion about diversity, representation, identity. is that a pressure you have felt and has it affected the way you ve produced shakespeare? i think it definitely has. i don t know that i would call it a pressure.
just go for the gag, you may get into trouble. so now, in my concert pieces, i have never done more set up in my life because sometimes, you need set up, and i d better say this before they cancel me, i m going to say this. there s more explication. there s more explanation, not so much, you know, not so much stuff that s going to take away from the gag. you can do it in an economical way. but i find that when i look at the totality of my show, it used to be, like, 200 laughs. now, it s, like, 150 laughs but you need that extra buffer. you need to kind of explain yourself. you have overseen the royal shakespeare company in, if i can put it this way, the sort of beginnings of the age of woke a discussion, particularly in this country but not just in this country, which involves culture in a discussion about diversity, representation, identity. is that a pressure you have felt and has it affected the way you ve produced shakespeare? i think it definitely has.
so now, in my concert pieces, i have never done more set up in my life because sometimes, you need set up, and. i d better say this before they cancel me, i m going to say this. there s more explication. there s more explanation, not so much, you know, not so much stuff that s going to take away from the gag. you can do it in an economical way. but i find that when i look at the totality of my show, it used to be, like, 200 laughs. now, it s, like, 150 laughs but you need that extra buffer. you need to kind of explain yourself. you have overseen the royal shakespeare company in, if i can put it this way, the sort of beginnings of the age of woke. a discussion, particularly in this country, but not just in this country, which involves culture in a discussion about diversity, representation, identity. is that a pressure you have felt and has it affected the way you ve produced
get into trouble. so now, in my concert pieces, i have never done more set up in my life because sometimes, you need set up. and i d better say this before they cancel me, i m going to say this. there s more explication. there s more explanation, not so much, you know, not so much stuff that s going to take away from the gag. you can do it in an economical way. but i find that when i look at the totality of my show, it used to be, like, 200 laughs. but you need that extra buffer. you need to kind of explain yourself. you have overseen the royal shakespeare company in, if i can put it this way, the sort of beginnings of the age of woke a discussion, particularly in this country but not just in this country, which involves culture in a discussion about diversity, representation, identity. is that a pressure you have felt and has it affected