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Shelley Berman

"My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's."

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Akshay Vasu

"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."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas."

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

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

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Akshay Vasu

"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."

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

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Shelley Berman
"My whole act is confession."

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

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

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

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

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

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Shelley Berman
"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."

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