“It was way before comedy was in or even popular. Let’s face it, these people did a lot of drugs and they wanted to hear the loudest music they could. I think there’s an old Chinese adage that says, ‘Sixteen sleeping pills does not make for a good comedy audience.’ They took a lot of these downers and would sit there waiting for Sly and the Family Stone, and the disc jockey had to come out and tell them I was there.”—Comedian Albert Brooks, appearing on public radio’s “Fresh Air,” December 19, 1996, reprinted in Terry Gross, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations With Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (2004)
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