Shelley Berman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
-- Shelley Berman

#Comedian #Important #Awareness
My whole act is confession.
-- Shelley Berman

#Confession
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.
-- Shelley Berman

#Glasses #Giving #Water
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
-- Shelley Berman

#Comedy
I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
-- Shelley Berman

#Believe #Comedian #Important
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
-- Shelley Berman

#Art #Comedy #Form
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.
-- Shelley Berman

#Etc #Problem #Love Of Money
My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
-- Shelley Berman

#Jobs #Night #Clubs
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
-- Shelley Berman

#First Love #Acting #Firsts
I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
-- Shelley Berman

#Comedian #Becoming #Actors
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance.
-- Shelley Berman

#Sunday #Night #Two
Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.
-- Shelley Berman

#Hated #Wells
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
-- Shelley Berman

#Bulbs #Hotel
I am careful with my material and presentation.
-- Shelley Berman

#Careful #Materials
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
-- Shelley Berman

#Teaching #Years #California
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.
-- Shelley Berman

#Teaching #Writing #Dramatic
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
-- Shelley Berman

#Sex #Culture #Privacy
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
-- Shelley Berman

#Memorable #Firsts #Carnegie
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
-- Shelley Berman

#Break Up #Fun #May
I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
-- Shelley Berman

#Years #Smoking #Twenties
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
-- Shelley Berman

#Comedian #Albums #Audience

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