I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
From Ray Romano
The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
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