Andy Kindler
Andy Kindler
Andy Kindleris an American comedian from New York City who resides in Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth16 October 1956
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.
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My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings.
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'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'
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There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
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Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
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When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.
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I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.
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I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That's why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.
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I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said.
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I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'
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I sold door to door for a couple years. As the years recede from the event, I remember less about it, which is probably good for my mind. It was home improvement in Cerritos California, Buena Park, that area.
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I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.
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I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.
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If I love a comic but they have an off night, who am I to say they should have taken out this or added that? It doesn't work that way... I have no interest in hurting people's feelings.