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Everybody has something they love to do. Do that thing.

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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

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Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

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Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.

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I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

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If you get an idea, you might as well stick with it until somebody calls you on it.

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At this point, I feel fairly comfortable in terms of performance. I think having a sketch background actually helps a lot. Because my background is acting, and stand-up, in a lot of ways, is acting.

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Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

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I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible, terrible jokes.

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I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: August 12th, 1971

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