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Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere hah.
Anthony Jeselnik
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Anthony Jeselnik
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 22
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Producer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.
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I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.
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I think my friend Jeff is gay. I don't know - I'm so bad with names.
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I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.
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I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.
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My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?
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In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.
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I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.
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My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.
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When I die, I want to be cremated with everybody.
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I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.
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Whenever I meet a pretty girl, the first thing I look for is intelligence because if she doesn't have that, then she’s mine.
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You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.
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My perfect night would be going out to an awesome restaurant, then heading over to the Comedy Cellar to hang out with other comics, drinking beers and making fun of each other.
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I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.
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I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
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I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.
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There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it that's my job.
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