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 I am careful with my material and presentation. As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
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I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
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My whole act is confession.
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Inside was the second LP album of a comedian`s performance before an audience.
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I developed several comedy phone calls.
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The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
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Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
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While in New York, struggling for a theatrical career, I started writing sketches, free-lance, for the Steve Allen Tonight Show.
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So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I`m going to blow up.
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The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
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Outside came in `60. The Edge in `61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.
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I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
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But, let`s face it, I`m a Chicago boy.
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Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.
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My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly`s.
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Incidentally, I`m still looking for acting work, my first love.
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I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
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The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
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Today`s audiences are different only insomuch as today`s people are different, and I do not think today`s people are substantially different.
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I will always love to perform standup comedy.
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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, we`re having fun.
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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 privacy.
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I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
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I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
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