Gregory C. "Greg" Giraldo was an American stand-up comedian, television personality, and lawyer. Giraldo was best known for his appearances on Comedy Central's televised roast specials, and for his work on that network's television shows Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Lewis B...
ALMA Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Comedy Series
Movies
American Dummy, Eventual Wife
TV Shows
"Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn", "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil", "Stand-Up Nation", "Comedy Central Roasts, " "Comedy Central's: Comic Cabana", "Common Law", "The Howard Stern Show", "The Greg Giraldo Show", "Gone Hollywood", "Friday Night Stand-Up with Greg Giraldo", "The Marriage Ref", "Shorties ...
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Quote
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The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.
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The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.
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The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.
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The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.
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Why do we need another station where everyone has a gun? We already have BET.
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Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.
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If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.
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There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?
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Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.
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I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.
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It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.
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[on Christianity] The Virgin Mary... We have a whole religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story.
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Fact
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Performed his last stand-up show on September 24, 2010, in New Jersey.
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Had his own show on Comedy Central for a brief period of time, titled "Stand-Up Nation with Greg Giraldo" (2005)_.
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Was a lawyer for less than a year before he changed his profession to comedy.
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Despite his multiple appearances on the Comedy Central Roasts, being a series regular on Lewis Black's Root of All Evil (2008), and even having his own show on the network, he had only one stand-up special on Comedy Central, which was the 2009 "Greg Giraldo: Midlife Vices" (2009) (TV)_ show.
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