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“I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.”
“I like to do something that gets a real reaction from people.”
“I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.”
“The dirty little secret that nobody likes to talk about is that things just might have been better before the Internet. We had more time to ourselves before cell phones and text messaging and Facebook consumed our lives.”
“If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.”
“When I'm 65 and still performing every week, I'd like people to say, 'You know, when that guy was a kid, he made these weird, crazy videos?' And they'll have to go look for them - rather than it being the first thing they know about me.”
“I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.”
“Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn't pay his share of taxes and didn't believe in charity. But other than these occasional rumblings of dissent, he is pretty much held in high esteem.”
“You might remember me from Eminem's rap lyrics.”
“When I started doing stand-up again, a lot of it was coming from an angrier place, and I quickly learned that doesn't spell a good time in a comedy club.”
“The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot.”
“I love playing in Vegas because you've got people from all over the world, and you're already accepted. It's kind of a great mixture of people that come out to the shows, and that makes it fun.”
“I've always found success in sort of separating myself from the pack mentality things.”
“I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.”
“I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.”
“I was a huge fan of Tom Snyder.”
“The easiest way to win the competition for eyeballs in the digital age is to broadcast bad behavior. People like watching train wrecks.”
“I basically went into broadcasting when I was in college because I knew that there was nothing like what I had in my mind on TV at the time.”
“I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.”
“Drew is a wonderful woman. I love her very much. I wish our marriage could have worked out. I wish her much happiness.”