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" A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. "
Face
Weird
Everything
" Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. "
Bad
Matter
Everyone
" Everybody's funny in different ways. "
Ways
Different
Everybody
" Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles. "
Sense
Sense Of Humor
Different
" For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor. "
Friends
Always
Say
" He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. "
Good
People
Place
" Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. "
Humanity
Great
Back
" I always wanted to write as much as perform. "
Wanted
Write
Perform
" I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. "
Audience
Say
People Say
" I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. "
Look
Feel
Empires
" If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material. "
Job
Enjoy
Because
" I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit. "
Kings
Feel
Reason
" I like guy stuff. "
Stuff
Like
Guy
" I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. "
History
Situation
People
" I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows. "
Working
Movies
Stuff
" I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them. "
Guy
Who
Smarter
" I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial. "
Superficial
More
Big
" I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian. "
York
Actor
Understand
" I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any. "
Though
Think
Even
" I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her. "
Crazy
Two
Think
" I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway. "
Think
Work
You
" I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ. "
Myself
Think
Real
" I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. "
Think
Feel
Good
" It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything. "
Trade
Crazy
Would
" I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America. "
America
Never
China
" I was a class clown. "
Class Clown
Clown
Class
" I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. "
World
Like
Say
" I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. "
I Love
Poetry
Love
" Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type. "
You
Funny
Cake
" My name has zero value. "
Name
Value
Zero
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