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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

~Mike Birbiglia

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There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

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Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

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My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: June 20th, 1978

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