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I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
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The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.
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My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
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You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.
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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.
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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
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Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
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A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
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Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
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I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
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When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.
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On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.
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I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.
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The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
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In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
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Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
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The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
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My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
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The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
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Here's the rule that I set for myself, and I believe it - even on a show like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm': the more personal you are, the wider your audience.
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