I have so much respect for what’s funny.
BERNIE MACI don’t care about how I look; I’m dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so – my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn’t care about being cool.
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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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You’re never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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