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- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
- Dissect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
- Lenny
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- Nov 07, 2020