OK, you've got the hit movie in The Hangover.

You got the New York Times Magazine profile.

You got the cult following as a stand-up comedian of prodigious and unpredictable talent.

Now don't blow it by letting some agent or manager try to turn you into a comedy commodity.

It happens regularly: A comedy performer has an unexpected hit and his flavor-of-the-month-ness attracts the "suits" (as Billy Walsh called them on Entourage) -- the facilitator types who latch on to new talent like...