Quotes by Erik Griffin - Page 1

Women are hilarious.
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Hilarious
Women Women Are
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I look stupid without a mustache.
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Mustache
Stupid
Without
Look
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I was born and raised in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Angeles
Born I Was Born Raised
Los
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I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.
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Current Events
Current
Sadly
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Admitted mama's boy here - put that on the record.
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Mama
Admitted
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'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.
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Seems
Career
Wonders
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We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.
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Voices
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It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.
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Male
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Most of the time, the truth is ugly and in your face! My observational brand of humor is very much all in your face!
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Observational
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I don't believe anything is truly off limits, but as a performer, one has to know that people might be offended, and there are consequences.
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Offended
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I love doing stand-up, and the more you do outside of stand-up to raise your profile, the better your stand-up becomes in terms of the quality of gigs.
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Gigs
Profile
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I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up your reputation. It was a slow process.
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Reputation
Work Day Process
Slow
Slow Process
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'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!
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Change The World
Entertain
Change Truth Political
Opinions
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I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wanted to be on the road. It's a lonely existence, but it is what it is.
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Comic
It Is What It Is
Lonely
Good Always Me
Good Me Bad
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My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later got into watching stand-ups like Eddie Murphy, who was my main inspiration.
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Jerry
Murphy
Saturday
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Lewis
Mornings
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People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.
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Being Funny
Comedian
Human Nature
Perceptive
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New York is great because it's such a cross-section of the world, and when you're used to people being shoulder-to-shoulder all the time - in the street, on the train - you become a people person. People are very open to hearing a lot of different perspectives, and they aren't as sensitive.
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Sensitive
Time Great World
Cross-Section
Different Perspectives
People Person
Perspectives
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I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'Is that the first time you said that?' It's something that you've said a thousand times, but if somebody says to you, 'Oh my God, is that the first time you've done that?' you know that performance was where you wanted it.
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Compliment
Thousand
Oh My God
Receive
Thousand Times
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