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  • B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it. Download This Image
  • B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.
  • B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.
  • B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.
  • B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.
  • B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.
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With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.

B. J. Porter

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - And with this show we’re trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called “Ghost Busters Busters”. Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it’s silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that. Download This Image

    And with this show we’re trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called “Ghost Busters Busters”. Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it’s silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that.

    B. J. PORTER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They’ve never seen anything that quick. Download This Image

    Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They’ve never seen anything that quick.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel. Download This Image

    Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - There’s two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they’re two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that’s going to be their favorite disk. Download This Image

    There’s two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they’re two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that’s going to be their favorite disk.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it. Download This Image

    With a sketch show, it’s “a bunch of people and they’re being funny.” In a way that you can’t really explain it.

    B. J. PORTER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can’t do the show anymore. We can’t really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can’t get Nick Swardson anymore. Download This Image

    The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can’t do the show anymore. We can’t really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can’t get Nick Swardson anymore.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - It’s really important to keep sponsoring young people so the audience gets used to them and starts enjoying them. They’re the only way your show can keep going, otherwise it’s going to burn out in one or two years. Hopefully you’re creating your headliners of the future. Download This Image

    It’s really important to keep sponsoring young people so the audience gets used to them and starts enjoying them. They’re the only way your show can keep going, otherwise it’s going to burn out in one or two years. Hopefully you’re creating your headliners of the future.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We’re not like show promoters where we’re like, (sleazy) “Hey, come on over and do a show.” Download This Image

    I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our actual friends. We’re not like show promoters where we’re like, (sleazy) “Hey, come on over and do a show.”

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love – I won’t mention his name – gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great. Download This Image

    Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love – I won’t mention his name – gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows – i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that “Hey, we want to buy something like that” and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that. Download This Image

    For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows – i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that “Hey, we want to buy something like that” and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - : But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don’t think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

    : But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don’t think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big. Download This Image

    So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram B. J. Porter Quote - We’re having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that’s not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it’s my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It’s just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, “We gotta do that.” Download This Image

    We’re having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that’s not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it’s my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It’s just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, “We gotta do that.”

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