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Yeah, I had a talk show canceled. Okay, let's go back to the list of people who had talk shows canceled. Johnny Carson had his first talk show canceled. Jon Stewart. Letterman. Conan O'Brien, if you look at 'The Tonight Show' as a show that got canceled.
We put on shows at Golden Gate Park with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the groups were part of the community they emerged out of, not some superstars. We had multiple stages, diversions, communal entertainment. There is something slightly fascistic about sitting in a huge auditorium focusing all the energy on one group far away on stage.
If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.
When we travel every weekend and we're out in these different towns, seeing the numbers that show up and how into the shows they are, I love the fact that we get to travel around and bring NXT to these fans in different towns that love what we do.
I started in an asbestos filled room on some thin judo mats and the first time I was in a ring was my first match. We did shows for 50 people and were pleased with that.
I've always had the mindset, even on independent shows, that even if the audience knew who I was, I was treating it as if they didn't. Every time I want to teach them who I am and show them what I'm about.
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all.
I went off at a person who threw a plastic thing at one of my shows once. After I shamed them, I realised it was a little lipstick and felt bad for days.
I feel like my shows have always been a place where people can wear and be and seem however they want, and it's a heartening event.
I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'
I won't consider a script if there's nothing redeeming about it. I can't do shoot-'em-up, bang-up shows.
I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.
It's been eight years now that I have been working in Bollywood and have done everything - from item songs to character roles to reality shows.
My music has been used in halftime at football games, and it's been used in high fashion shows, and its been used in 'take back the night' rallies.
Usually in my own shows I'm running around like crazy, climbing on things, jumping on people.
One of my first shows was for NME in England, and it was a showcase. I was the first band on and the Strokes were the second band and we were both quite new, and the NME wrote in the paper the next day, 'Grandma, you're scaring the kids.' I was 33.
When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is all about writing, so you just shoot, shoot, shoot what's written.
I don't have keepsakes from shows, really. It's in the work. It's all there.
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