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I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

Billy Gardell

I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I’m doing the best I can.
BILLY GARDELL

Mean Want Weight
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, ‘Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.
BILLY GARDELL

Decision Insecurity Quickest Thinking
Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!
BILLY GARDELL

Funny Sometimes Worth Wrong
I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.
BILLY GARDELL

Country Straight Two Years
Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I’ve dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.
BILLY GARDELL

Framed Getting Old Really
You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That’s the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That’s what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there’s always a role for the Everyman.
BILLY GARDELL

Buddy Guy Handsome Hero Next People Standing Wisecracking
Whenever I realize I’m being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience.
BILLY GARDELL

Realizing Writing
As a comic, I’ve heard gunshots while I’m trying to get to sleep. I’ve performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
BILLY GARDELL

People Sleep Trying
Whatever is happening in your life is what’s going on on stage. So if you’re angry in your life, then that’s going to be on stage. If you’re looking for the guy that’s just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that’s me.
BILLY GARDELL

Angry Guy Hour Laugh Life Make Stage
Look, you know, you can’t please everybody. I’m a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn’t matter how funny you are and how well you do, there’s two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.
BILLY GARDELL

Hate People Two
Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves – everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight.
BILLY GARDELL

Everybody Fun Hero Years
I’m always the last one to the party, man. But that’s okay. I got there.
BILLY GARDELL

Last Man One Party
No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
BILLY GARDELL

No Seriously Someone Talk Themselves Want
Yeah, I’ve done Jim Breuer’s radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got ‘Mike & Molly,’ wishing me congratulations.
BILLY GARDELL

Congratulation Couple Party Radio Show
And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act.
BILLY GARDELL

Guy Laughing Thinking
I like those older theaters – the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there’s been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.
BILLY GARDELL

Acoustics Mean Perfect

I chewed up a lot of Florida highway when I was starting out. Used to come to Tampa two or three times a year for about 10 years straight.

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