All things are bound together. All things connect.
After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.
I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill.
Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.
TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.
Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.
Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.
I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.
We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale. . . The end of it all is vexation of spirit.
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.