Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.
I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.
I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
In the early days I was on the road 45-50 weeks a year, driving from gig to gig 6-8 weeks in a row. Not everyone can do that. The show becomes the easy part. Tt's the life on the road that is the hardest. . . and you can't get any good at standup unless you do the road.
Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.
I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.
Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.
Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me.
It's fun! Just fun. . . I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense
I had known Hal [Needham] for a while by the time he moved in, so I was sure we'd get along well, and we did. He'd go off and do his gigs and I would do mine, and when we were lucky we got to work on the same ones.
Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.
I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this.
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.
Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.