Gallagher
Gallagher
American comedian who became famous in the 80's for his unique brand of prop comedy. He is best know for smashing watermelons as part of his act.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth24 July 1946
CityFort Bragg, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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We were pretty confident, because we knew we were ahead by a large margin. We didn't feel like there were a lot of teams capable of beating us.
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What the Fed wants to do is to conduct monetary policy as independently as it can, and the way to do that is not to attract attention. That's why the Fed has so rarely changed interest rates -- raised or lowered them during the fall campaign.
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We lost all of our power. We're on backup power. Our guys aren't trading.
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What's happening is we own very little generation; the utility companies own very little generation. As a result we have to go out for power when the current contract expires, which happens at the end of 2006. If you think of natural gas and the way it operates now, that will be the way we will operate after 2006.