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- Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I…
- As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the…
- Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see…
- 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive…
- I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
- I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
- A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who…
- I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up…
- If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go…
- Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of…
- Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people…
- One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by…
- Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb…
- I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.
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