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I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

~David Steinberg

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The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little bit because you have an instrument that'll separate you from the audience.

~David Steinberg

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My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.

~David Steinberg

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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

~David Steinberg

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You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

~David Steinberg

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When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

~David Steinberg

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Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

~David Steinberg

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A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

~David Steinberg

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Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

~David Steinberg

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Comedian

Born: August 9th, 1942

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