Shelley Berman Quotes

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• As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
• A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
• If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he…
• I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
• While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey,…
• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and…
• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
• I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
• I am careful with my material and presentation.
• Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
• Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.
• The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
• I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
• Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
• My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
• The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
• Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
• I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
• I will always love to perform standup comedy.

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