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My whole act is confession.
Shelley Berman
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As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
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The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
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The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
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As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
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Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
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We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
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A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
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I am careful with my material and presentation.
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The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
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I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
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If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.
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The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.
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I developed several comedy phone calls.
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Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
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I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
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I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
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Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
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I will always love to perform standup comedy.
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I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
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While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
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My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
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I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.
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Though it sold very well, I hated "The Edge."
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I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
Shelley Berman
