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David Steinberg
Canadian
Comedian
Born:
Aug 9
,
1942
About
Audience
Comedian
Comedy
Other
You
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A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
David Steinberg
You
Else
Interview
Television
See
Feels
Spontaneous
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Differently
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
Good
You
Marriage
Money
Good Marriage
Bit
Had
Comedian
Make
Lousy
Going
Bank
Childhood
Little
Little Bit
Used
Theory
Good Childhood
Actually
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
David Steinberg
Persistence
Took
Kind
Read
Off
Again
Notes
Paid
Your
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.
David Steinberg
You
Sometimes
Lawyer
Hundred
Week
New
Hours
Because
York
New York
Being
Eighty
Working
Sucks
And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
David Steinberg
Law
Become
Emotional
Student
Emotional Thing
Leave
Huge
Unemployed
Again
Thing
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
Music
You
Bit
Out
About
Something
Instrument
Because
Audience
Making
Up
Improvisation
Front
Interesting
Little
Little Bit
Interesting Thing
Separate
Helps
Now
Thing
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
Job
First
Tyson
Broadway
Kid
Directing
Cast
Students
Columbia
Columbia University
Himself
Reparations
Diana
Offered
Who
Play
Starred
Played
Slave
Two
University
Jewish
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
You
Respect
Money
Comedian
Make
Lot
Get
Being
Started
I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
David Steinberg
Comedy
Humor
Nothing
More
Off
Than
Really
Dissect
Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.
David Steinberg
Comedy
Silences
Part
Most
Underrated
My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.
David Steinberg
Bruce
Allen
Were
Influences
Woody
Woody Allen
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience and there's not a laugh.
David Steinberg
Life
You
Worst
Worst Thing
Laugh
Comedian
Documentary
Audience
Happen
Your
Thing
Watching
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