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"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
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"Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things."
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"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
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"I see the Ricky Martin thing, and everything is like, just packaged for this moment. Where are they going to be 10 years, 20 years from now?"
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"I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down."
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"Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about."
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"What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime."
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"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."
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"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."
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"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."
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"Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank."
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"When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records."
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"Hopefully standup will become special again."
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"The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming."
Programming
"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."
Business
"The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day."
Day
"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along."
Business
"The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers."
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"I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me."
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"I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did."
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"In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special."
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