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Published podcast speaker
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21 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“What’s considered jokes today are comedy bits, and people don’t tell each other comedy bits. I think you’re right — fewer and fewer people tell each other jokes.”
02 / belief
“I would say some people are oblivious to these clues, and they probably suffer for that during their lives.”
03 / belief
“I think a little bit colder than comfortable is what is best — 70, maybe, something like that.”
04 / observation
“The problem is that the kind of air conditioning systems that we have, you take what you can get.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don’t know that it’s harder or easier, but I know that there are certain people who just can fill a room.”
06 / commitment
“I will find myself laughing harder at the same joke, just as the entire room is laughing harder.”
07 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if it’s counterproductive. I don’t think it works. Like when I was very nervous to do this interview, you could have said anything you wanted to me.”
08 / observation
“I had decided that the only way you could have an affair — I wasn’t married, God forbid — was that you and the woman had to be the only two people who know about it.”
09 / commitment
“I find old Don Rickles still funny sometimes, but I find all old George Carlin — I will still find the Class Clown album funny.”
10 / commitment
“The comedians own it. But I will then share it with them, and to the extent that they want to, have it released or given to a museum someday.”
11 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. We’ve tried Buster Keaton. We’ve tried Laurel and Hardy. They did a lot of silent movies before they did talk.”
12 / belief
“Then it has just decayed ever since then. I think live music — I don’t think it’s coming back.”
13 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I have to take a look at raising my prices. I had no idea. I didn’t mention this to you.”
14 / belief
“You can do it with famous acts, but the non-famous live music club, no. I think that’s partly why comedy has gotten busier, too.”
15 / evaluation
“If I’m at the comedian table and I say something that’s funny, there’s a large number of comedians who will not laugh because it makes them uncomfortable to see a civilian be funny, because it’s a civilian.”
16 / evaluation
“The obvious answer that most people would say is because you can’t make those jokes anymore.”
17 / evaluation
“James Taylor gets more credit, but is also not understood to be the genius that he is because he basically invented an entire style.”
18 / evaluation
“I think the vehicles that are being used now are just not conducive to a comedy team like they once were.”
19 / evaluation
“Well, it came to the rescue in a certain way, because just as wokeness put a cloud over everything, social media allowed some of the most successful comics working today to distribute themselves directly to their audience and find their audience.”
20 / commitment
“We do get complaints from time to time that the seats were too tight. It’s the one complaint I will not address in terms of making changes in the room because I know that it helps.”
21 / evaluation
“Every one of these scenarios might be unique in its own way, but definitely the idea that the radio was a central way of presenting things in those days — I think that probably dictated that a duo was a smart thing to have.”