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I went to school with steven wright who was the shyest guy i knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. i went down to his club and he was great. another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. so i thought if these guys can do it then so can i.
-Denis Leary
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I Went To School With Steven Wright

Denis Leary
I went to school with steven wright who was the shyest guy i knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. i went down to his club and he was great. another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. so i thought if these guys can do it then so can i.
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I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but i couldn't do that. i didn't like the association. i mean, i love steven wright, but so many people started saying "steven wright" to me, and i would get mad, because i never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody.
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If i could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. the problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and i really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.
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Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. you would never go to a club just to see "live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. but when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.
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