Occupation: Stand-Up Comedian Birth: October 5, 1957 Death: August 9, 2008
Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about ….
I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writin….
America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy r….
I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with ….
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them..
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don't start writing no letters. I'm just kidding. But am I lying?.
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody….
Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say..
I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I h….
My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish..
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success..
If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else..
Comedy has been so good to me..
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world..
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never ….
Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power..