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I Have This Thing Built Into My Contract That The Club Has To Put Up A Sign That Says My Act "contains The Strongest Language And Material Content Imaginable," But, Believe It Or Not, I Still Get Complaints. People Want You To Be What They Want You To Be. If They See You On Tv And That's What They Like, They Want You To Be Exactly Like That When They See You Live. And If You're Not, Some Of Them Get Upset.

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I Have This Thing Built Into My Contract That The Club Has To Put Up A Sign That Says My Act "contains The Strongest Language And Material Content Imaginable," But, Believe It Or Not, I Still Get Complaints. People Want You To Be What They Want You To Be. If They See You On Tv And That's What They Like, They Want You To Be Exactly Like That When They See You Live. And If You're Not, Some Of Them Get Upset.

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I Brought Something Back From Those Experiences [with Drugs] Which Made Me Softer, Open To Other Ideas. And I've Learned From Listening To Other People Talk About Their Experiences, From Listening To Bill Hicks Or Reading Terrence Mckenna Or Aldous Huxley And Timothy Leary. But There's Always Some Dumb Cop Out There Who Says "we Don't Need Another Legal Drug And There's Psychological Addiction And Blah Blah Blah."

Listening To Others

By Putting Yourself In That Intense Form Of Stress, It Makes Regular Life More Peaceful.

I'm A Nightclub Comic. That's What I Do. I Work In The Clubs Uncensored Because My Mind Is Uncensored, And Those Are The Thoughts That I Have. I Do The Kind Of Comedy That I Would Enjoy Seeing.

Our Entire Civilization Is Built On A Foundation Of Unfixable Bullshit.

It's Not Necessarily A Brave Thing, People Talk About What They Think About. There's People Out There Who Love To Talk About Politics Or Where They Think The Countries Headed. I Don't Talk About That I Talk About...things That Are A Little Trippier.

Because I Have A Girlfriend, I Try And Take The Straight And Narrow Path, Which Is Good Because It Prevents Vd.

My Act Is So Completely And Totally Uncensored That The Only Way I Could Really Pull It Off Is If I Treat The Audience Like They're My Best Friends.

What People Like Are Things To Laugh At. Funny Shows. It's All In The Execution, The Writing And The Characters, Not The Setting. And The Writing And The Execution And The Characters Are Great On (everybody Loves Raymond).

I'm Really Happy That I've Been Able To Make People Laugh And Distract Them From Their Day To Day Bullshit At A Comedy Show Or Because They Enjoyed One Of My Cds Or Tv Specials, But I Don't Know How Many People Have Actually Had Life Changing Thoughts Because Of It.

Any Comic Like Myself Owes Everything He Has To Lenny Bruce. He Was The Originator. The Godfather Of Uncensored American Stand-up Is Clearly Lenny Bruce.

We Live In A Society That Makes It Really Easy For These Pussies To Get By.

Like If You All Were Going To Go Out And One Guy's Like "you Know What Man I'm Going To Stay Home I'm Feeling Kind Of Shitty," You Go, "you Faggot." That's What It Means. It's About A Guy Wimping Out, Being A Douchebag...it Has Nothing To Do With Your Sexual Orientation.

You Do What You're Supposed To Do, But You Have To Be Honest About What They're Doing. When You Do A Comedy Show On A Network The Problem Is There Are Going To Be A Bunch Of People Who Aren't Comedians That Are Going To Tell You What's Funny.

When Women Go To See Men Strip, We Never Accuse You Of Hating Men.

Like Any Tool [drugs] Can Help You Or Hurt You.

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