American - Comedian | March 26, 1964 -
I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.
Todd Barry
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I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.
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I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that.
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I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
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I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
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I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
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I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.
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I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.
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I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.
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I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
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I'd rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.
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If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.
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