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Comics who consider themselves 'mavericks' or think the crowd doesn't get them are normally lousy comics.
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I don't watch too much television because I want to write something, and you never want to be influenced by other things that are on - and if they're really funny it'll just depress me because it's something I'm not a part of.
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I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they don't like.
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I want people to feel like there's nothing they have to be worried about laughing at. There's nothing that can't be made fun of.
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I know I'm funny, and I like to be in front of people, and the fact that I'm good at that. It's the one thing that gave me self-esteem.
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If I'm gonna make fun of Trump, I'm gonna tell you things that I've done that are similar. I like to tell on myself, as well as make fun of the people I'm talking about. I feel like it gives me more of a right to make fun of them if I am talking about myself, too. It's more fun for me that way, honestly.
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Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.
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If somebody said about me, 'I don't think his jokes are good, I don't think he's a good comedian,' I don't like to read that but that's a fair thing to say.
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No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side.
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I love Philly so much. I know that at any time, any place, a fight can break out. Those are great comedy fans.
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For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.
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With 'Mouthful of Shame,' all of my fans or the majority of them said it's the best thing you've ever done and that meant a lot because as you go on with time, if they're still really enjoying it, that means you're getting better.
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I think what's happening is that women are allowed to be funnier as we stop pretending that there are subjects that they shouldn't address.
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I wanted to do a talk show that reminded me of the old school ones I loved as a kid, without all the fake enthusiasm and sound bite-driven conversations.
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All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.
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The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.
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I find when most people are offended, it's phony. It's an attention-seeking device. So I love to call them out on it from stage.
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You just have to believe in what you're saying and be able to explain why you said it. There's nothing I say that I can't back up or at least explain why I came to that conclusion, so I'm not afraid of getting in trouble.
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If someone doesn't like a comedian that's fine; a lot of people probably don't like my standup, and that's fine. But I think that the problem is people want you to get in trouble. That's the issue.
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If I leave the mike in the stand, my hands absolutely move more. I'm not sure if it's a conscious thing.
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If the show is going really well and the comedian is still annoyed with the audience, chances are he's a Boston comic. That's the beauty of Boston comics.
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I love everything about Boston. The women are phenomenal, they're all dirty. It's just a really great place to do comedy.
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Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.
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Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.
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I'd like to get my own TV show on, whether it's a talk show or a comedy, that I write.
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I love doing the radio, and it's different every day. But stand-up is just you and the immediate reaction of the audience. So I love both.
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Anything you can do that's self-destructive in Vegas, whatever that is, I do it.
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I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event.
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It's not a hard job, radio or standup, there are hard parts of it, sure. There are guys who do ten hours of construction a day don't want to hear me talk about my job being difficult. Compared to what a lot of people do, this is genuinely easy.
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The more disgruntled the white people are, the happier they are to see me, that has to be it. I do really well in Boston, I do really well in Cleveland, I do really well in Philly, Jersey, certain parts of Florida. Places where there are really really aggressive white people tend to love me.
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Everyone has a reason why their particular sacred cow is the sacred cow to be honored.
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Comedians want honest discussion because it affects us. We make our living talking, so anything around language affects us greatly.
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Lenny Bruce did clean TV. You have to be able to do that, I think, to succeed because if you want to promote something, you go on 'The Tonight Show' or 'Letterman' or whatever, you can't be dirty.
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I've done 'Letterman' twice and he was friendly, he said hello as he was shaking your hand and in front of the audience, but you never spoke to him before or after.
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Being 'edgy' is not just cursing. There are some things socially that are just not acceptable to make fun of. Anything with race, they really won't let you do on TV unless it's completely soft.
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