top of page
More

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
Author Name
Personal Development

"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."
Author Name
Personal Development

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas."
Author Name
Personal Development

"So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago."
Author Name
Personal Development

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."
Humor

"My whole act is confession."
Act

"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."
Art

"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."
Fun

"Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love."
Love

"As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian."
Education

"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."
Anger

"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
Health

"Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience."
Performance

"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
Comedians
bottom of page