The thing about stand-ups is you can’t really get good unless you’re failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can’t do anything.
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My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
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| Birth: | 9th August, 1942 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Actor, Author, Comedian, Director, Writer |
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David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the United States. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson more than 130 times and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host.
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