American - Comedian | August 30, 1948 -
I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.
Lewis Black
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I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape.
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You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
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I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.
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I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.
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I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.
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My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.
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I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.
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I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
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I'm a Jew.
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My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.
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I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.
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