Show Quotes
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There is a definite difference between live shows and the recordings. The recordings are for all time, hopefully, so you do want to bring across layers of subtlety. But the live show is this primal experience that everybody's having at the same time, that the recording can at best try to imitate or duplicate.
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The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.
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It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'
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I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.
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I love San Francisco. Last season we shot for about a week and a half up in the Bay area. But the majority of our show is shot here in LA.
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Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.
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Many people love seeing a good show, but there are many others who aren’t seen on stage who help make the show what it should be. These are the true unsung heroes of every live event. Here’s something special just for them.
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The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.
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I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.
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People really do identify with the characters they see on the show, but these days, social media allows you to interact with fans in a really interesting way. On my Twitter account, I'm Chris Carmack, not Will Lexington. I interact with fans and joke with them. I'll post pictures from my life. I think that helps drop the curtain of a character.
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Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.
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I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be. They show you yourself after all. Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.
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We've improved since then. There's no better platform than Sunday to show it.
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I’m not nervous at all [about being in the show]. I think it’s going to be a great show. I’m real excited.
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Don’t waste your time on sweet formalities. Just show me your originality.
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Sometimes I'm crotchety, angry, curmudgeonly - you know, I do have that side. I don't always show it.
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You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.
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One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn't it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There's a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing - being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party - is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally.
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Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.
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My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.
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In the 1970s, you couldn't do a television show from Las Vegas because you couldn't find a sponsor. In my view, Las Vegas has become the place to perform versus any other place in the world.
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Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.
