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" When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood. "
Kevin Nealon
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" You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup. "
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" I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game. "
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" If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said. "
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" What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing. "
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" I worked for a temp agency called Manpower. "
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" I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror doing curls, and I noticed this guy next to me also doing curls. He was grimacing a lot, and I noticed he had an underbite. I looked more closely and realized it was Bruce Springsteen. "
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" I see the love in my child's eyes when he sees me, and I know it's gigantic. As an older person, I've been in love before, and I've loved, but this is really an immense, out-of-control-proportion amount of love that you can't even describe. "
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" With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end. "
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" My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular. "
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Started
Like
" As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. "
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Live
Little
You
" My adrenaline is definitely going, but it's mostly my real, laid-back persona carrying over on stage. When I first started, I was nervous, I'd be really high energy, and I'd be sweating. Now it's just my job. It's like a machinist who goes to work every day and uses the same drill bits. He's not worried about taking his finger off. "
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" The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining. "
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" Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled. "
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Insist
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" I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there. "
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Rough
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" I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn't continue to excel in those categories. "
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Excel
Back
Lived
" If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit. "
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Little
Numb
People
" Never wear a red t-shirt to Target. I enjoy helping people, but not every two minutes. "
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Target
Two
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" Any day that is designated to shower the person you love with love is my favorite holiday. "
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" I think I definitely would have ended up in some kind of show business. I was very interested in music when I was younger. This was back when Crosby, Stills and Nash were around. "
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" As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences. "
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Older
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" A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material. "
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" I feel guilty: when I'm not golfing, I feel like I should be golfing. And when I'm golfing, I feel like I should be home working or spending time with the family. So it's a real conundrum. "
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Home
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Feel
" I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball. "
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" Print is definitely more nutritious. When I leave a website, I'm hungry again an hour later - especially the Chinese websites. "
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" I don't feel the pressure and stress of having to be a comic in a club every night. I accomplished a lot of things; I did lot of things, and I don't feel like I'm missing out when I am home with my son. "
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" I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere. "
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Watching
Unique
Job
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Me
" I recently purchased an iPad 2 because I didn't want to wait for the iPad 3 and iPad 4. "
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" People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing, but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!' "
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" I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals. "
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