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Michael Che Quotes
Michael Che Quotes
Michael Che
American
Comedian
Born:
May 19
,
1983
Comedy
Joke
Me
People
Think
You
Related authors:
George Carlin
Groucho Marx
Milton Berle
Mitch Hedberg
Robin Williams
Rodney Dangerfield
Steven Wright
W. C. Fields
Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.
Michael Che
Dark
Comedy
Try
Made
Way
Possible
Kind
Cartoon
Vivid
Silly
Seem
Something
Take
Make
Subjects
Very
Children
Them
Might
Deep
Fun
Violence
I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.
Michael Che
News
Twitter
Follow
See
Outlets
Through
Headlines
Go
Lot
Going
Just
I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!
Michael Che
Politics
Saying
Me
Vote
Somebody
Important
Pay
Believe
Honestly
President
About
Pick
Votes
Know
Because
Gotta
Important Thing
Any
Just
Anything
Taxes
Many
Thing
If I'm doing a show on Sunday at 7 P.M., that wouldn't be the same show that I'd do at 11 P.M. on a Saturday - it's a different room at a different time of day with different sensibilities. That doesn't mean you have to compromise your art, but it is communication: you have to know how to talk to people.
Michael Che
Art
Time
Day
You
Communication
People
Sunday
Compromise
Know
Talk
How
Doing
Same
Different
Sensibilities
Mean
Room
Your
Show
Saturday
I like comedy that's not political but social, dealing with issues of people talking to each other. No matter what your politics, we still have to live with each other. Politics is taking a side. I'm not running for office, you know?
Michael Che
Politics
You
People
Comedy
Political
Matter
Live
Other
Side
Running
Taking
Like
Know
Talking
Dealing
Still
Issues
Office
Social
Your
Each
I would love to do more TV and do movies for the experience, but my ultimate focus is stand-up. It's the number one thing that I love most because there is nothing like being with a live audience.
Michael Che
Love
Experience
Focus
Nothing
Live
Live Audience
TV
Would
One Thing
More
Like
Most
Because
Audience
Ultimate
Being
Movies
Thing
Number
If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.
Michael Che
Funny
Good
Try
Joke
Stage
Think
Once
Say
Ways
Possible
Find
Something
Soon
Feels
Like
Until
Different
Rhythm
Mold
Different Ways
Million
When you're doing comedy constantly, you're organized: you know where everything is, you know how to get out of it, you know how to stretch it. But, like, doing 'SNL,' I stopped doing spots, and then I would finally do some sets - it take me so long to, kind of, get in the rhythm of it.
Michael Che
Me
You
Comedy
Long
Sets
Everything
Finally
Out
Kind
Would
Constantly
Some
Take
Like
Know
Spots
How
Doing
SNL
Get
Stopped
Where
Rhythm
Then
Organized
Stretch
Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'
Michael Che
People
Black
White
Our
Ours
Embarrassment
Out
Kind
Insecurities
Find
Like
Know
Where
Little
Them
Us
Much
Really
Thing
It's a unique fraternity to be a standup. I think everybody understands, you know, opportunity, and everybody - especially at the top - are genuinely rooting for you.
Michael Che
You
Opportunity
Think
Everybody
Top
Fraternity
Know
Genuinely
Understands
Rooting
Standup
Unique
I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.
Michael Che
You
Draw
Would
Would-Be
Some
Put
Pictures
Like
Because
Go
Brain
Friends
Where
Happened
Should
Used
Paint
I think satire suffered under Obama, but not because of Obama. People are more sensitive now than ever, and strong satirical voices are stifled because of that. I don't think a Clinton presidency would change that.
Michael Che
Satire
Change
People
Strong
Think
Presidency
Obama
Would
More
Voices
Because
Stifled
Clinton
Than
Sensitive
Satirical
Now
Suffered
Ever
Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated.
Michael Che
Complicated
Comedy
Become
Live
Outside
Venue
Without
Context
Reported
Fantastic
Things
Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.
Michael Che
Emotions
Comedy
Outlet
Ridiculous
To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.
Michael Che
Jokes
People
Difficult
Think
Those
Something
Deliver
Know
How
Very
Hard
I'm a big Knicks fan, and I will tell a professional basketball player that they suck because they didn't do what I wanted them to do.
Michael Che
Will
Big
Tell
Knicks
Because
Wanted
Fan
Them
Suck
Professional
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I'm a huge Steven Martin fan.
Michael Che
Martin
Steven
Huge
Fan
Comedy is subjective.
Michael Che
Comedy
Subjective
When I was little, I used to suck the candy coating off of Advil and spit the white part back in the bottle.
Michael Che
White
Back
Spit
Bottle
Part
Off
Candy
Little
Used
Suck
Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.
Michael Che
Man
Old
Black
Nothing
Bitter
True
True Story
Than
Story
Funnier
I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,' you know?
Michael Che
You
Comedy
Joke
Every
Other
Respected
Only
Highest
Highest Level
Feel
Like
Comedian
Know
Level
If you really think everything in your life, everything that you benefit from comes from socially aware, like-minded, good-hearted people, then you're out of your mind. If you want only those people to have good jobs, we would have to learn how to adjust very quickly without those people. Maybe I'm cynical, but I truly believe that.
Michael Che
Life
Good
You
People
Mind
Cynical
Believe
Think
Good Jobs
Benefit
Everything
Those
Adjust
Out
Jobs
Would
Only
Learn
Without
How
Truly
Very
Quickly
Maybe
Want
Then
Really
Your
Aware
Socially
America's a gangbanger country. We got our gang, and everything else is irrelevant.
Michael Che
Country
Else
Our
Everything
Everything Else
Got
America
Irrelevant
Gang
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