The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more.
Bob SagetMy girlfriend just told me I am one of the smartest people she knows. I told her, You need to meet other people.
Bob SagetMy favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.
Bob SagetIn the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.
Bob SagetIf someone sprays windex in your food it can give you diarrhea. But once you wipe it off your windows, you're fine.
Bob SagetSoon, I'm going to meet somebody around my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful, and I'm going to date her daughter.
Bob SagetMy mom just told me it's impossible to know what's going to happen in life. Except with breakfast, cause she eats the same thing every day.
Bob SagetSometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.
Bob SagetSaw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?
Bob SagetMy dad's like, If your mom and I are having sex and we videotape it and she falls out of bed funny, can I win ten-thousand dollars?
Bob SagetJust went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.
Bob SagetMy father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.
Bob SagetWhat I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.
Bob SagetThe favorite method of vice is to diss all responsibility be work or social, go off by myself, and enjoy a good steak and a great glass of wine. Oh yeah, and my kids are there too.
Bob SagetIt was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
Bob SagetI'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.
Bob SagetAll I've ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it.
Bob SagetYou can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.
Bob SagetI don't censor myself, but I don't want to force my sick-skewed version of the world, either.
Bob SagetConcerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?
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