Quotes by Jermaine Fowler - Page 2

When I got nominated class clown in school, I remember my mom said, 'Don't be no clown.' So I went to my vice principal in my school and said, 'Can we change this to just the funniest?'
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Principal
Class Clown
Funniest
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Vice
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My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 18. I was supposed to go to community college. I wasn't really into going because I wanted to do stand-up, and he felt I was wasting my time.
Jermaine Fowler /
Community College
Wasting
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I felt so contained at home. I always really felt like I couldn't be myself at home, so I was always quiet. I remember I used to sit in my room and listen to Bone Thugs and close the door.
Jermaine Fowler /
Home Myself Always
Bone
Contained
Thugs
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When comics are in the room, people have a tendency to try to make them laugh. That doesn't really make you funnier. It makes you a comic's comic, but you aren't going to get a fan base doing that.
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Comic
Base
Fan
Fan Base
Funnier
People Laugh Doing
Laugh
Tendency
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I was influenced by a lot of comedy growing up, I had good parents. They were funny, too. My mom was hilarious; my dad was hilarious. I guess being at home around the environment was just a good stage to get started.
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Hilarious
Influenced
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I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald's commercials, and they'd blacken up the commercials for 28 days then go back to normal in March. It got annoying to me.
Jermaine Fowler /
Annoying
Black History
March
Normal
History Me People
Month
Watched
Commercials
Companies
History Black Me
Mcdonald
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I see myself touring internationally - everywhere, every theater, every arena - and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can't even stand no more. Even then, I'll probably do my comedy special in a hospital bed.
Jermaine Fowler /
Arena
Stand Up Comedy
Hospital
Internationally
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CBS garners a predominately older white audience, and by having a show like 'Superior Donuts' on their weekly programming, it distorts what people are used to seeing in a positive way. It's a show I think was necessary.
Jermaine Fowler /
Donuts
Programming
Positive People Way
Cbs
Positive Way
Superior
Weekly
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I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.
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Me Wait People
Onstage
Sketches
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My friend gave me a VHS tape of Eddie Murphy's 'Raw.' I watched it so many times, I fell in love with it. I would watch it every day, just picking it apart. And then I started doing open mics around Maryland and D.C.: that's where I'm from. And I haven't stopped since.
Jermaine Fowler /
Maryland
Murphy
Tape
Love Me Day
Eddie
My Friend
Picking
Raw
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Broadcast TV has a very classy but old-fashioned way of doing television. That's what it's always going to be. But you've still got to introduce young talent and ideas and shows to the masses. That's the way you build a bigger and younger audience, introducing younger writers, comics, TV shows to viewers.
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Introducing
Tv Shows
Viewers
Young Talent
Broadcast
Classy
Introduce
Masses
Old-Fashioned Way
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I sat down with CBS, and we talked about me developing a show for them. At the time, I was meeting with a lot of networks. And I told them, 'I don't want to be acting on your show as the token black guy. I want to do something that will change a network and will change the way people view African-Americans on TV.'
Jermaine Fowler /
Developing
Time Change Your
Cbs
Change Time Your
Networks
Talked
Token
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