Quotes by Joe Flaherty - Page 1

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Hop
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Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Bars
Brooklyn
Toulouse
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To think that someone we loved, trusted, opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Daughter
Home
Thinking
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When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Culture
Loss
Team
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Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Stand Up Comedy
Improv
Replace
Seemed
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My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Baseball
Cities
Giving
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'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Ensemble
Satirical
Saturday
Saturday Night
Broader
Concept
Group
Ours
Sketches
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It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Baseball
Father
Son
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They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Daughter
Missing
Rose
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Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know, 'Family Guy?' I watch that because the guy is good.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Animation
Depressing
Family Guy
Family Good Know
Steve
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There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Foolishness
Silliness
Youth
Just Something
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That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Intelligent
Monty
Python
Second City
Assume
Influenced
Match
Monty Python
Philosophers
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I havent watched Mad TV a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Attitude
Blood
Mad
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I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Depends
Watched
Draw
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'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Generic
Lame
Vampire
Widow
Count
Drew
Eyebrow
Motions
Peak
Stretch
Turtleneck
Wore
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Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and suffering. To think that someone we loved, trusted and opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief. The betrayals to the family, to Neil's family, to our family (and) to our friends here and in the UK are unbearable.
Joe Flaherty / Actor
Daughter
Betrayal
Pain
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