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- You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
- I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.
- Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.
- Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I…
- My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.
- Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
- The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we…
- Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to…
- Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd…
- I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested…
- I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they…
- I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll…
- What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there…
- In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in…
- Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up…
- The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are…
- A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I…
- A republican stands up in congress and says I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat says AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!.
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