Phillip Ressler

“For a stand-up comic, a minute on TV without a laugh was death. And Carson was adamant about the formula. He had recently stopped by the Improv to see Jay Leno and Andy Kaufman perform and had pronounced both of them “not ready,” telling Budd Friedman, “They’re funny, but they don’t have six minutes.” By”
― William Knoedelseder, I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is hitched to everything else in the universe.”70”
― Amy Webb, The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

“I always thought the world was divided into two kinds of people-those who think the world is divided into only two kinds of people and those who don't.”
― Molly Irvins

“James Baldwin’s words haunt: “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” Are we a nation of monsters?”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul