For my next trick I will make everyone understand me. |
It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time. |
I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it. |
Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah. |
Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. |
As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible. |
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity. |
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. Topics: Show Business |
On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. |
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. |
I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me. |
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. |
It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out. |
Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves? |
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate. |
Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. |
I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did. |
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do. |
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. |
When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon. |