Talk:Steven Wright/Archive 1

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he also like wrote the movie 'one soldier', which is a great movie he was also on some hbo special way way way back in the day — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.245.163.1 (talk) 03:21, 23 March 2004 (UTC)

Quotes List
Should we move the magority Steve's quotes to his WikiQuotes? Usually, you leave three quotes and provide a link to his wikiquote page? --Befuddled Steve 21:44, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Twitter
There's a link to Steven Wright's Twitter account at the bottom of this article. Can anyone confirm that it's actually by him and not some fan? His website and MySpace profiles don't mention Twitter. Bartszyszka 21:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Cartoon
Anyone know the name of the cartoon he is in where he is talking to a psycologist. It was recently referred to on an eposide of Family Guy.--The Sess 00:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * It was a cartoon called Dr. Katz. -unknownsoldier — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.131.145.185 (talk) 00:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Authenticity of jokes
Is anybody else familiar with the quote: "Black holes are where God divided by zero." I've seen that one attributed to Steven Wright but I've never had any real evidence that he ever said it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.101.16.90 (talk) 19:17, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

I like his observation that everything is within walking distance if you have the time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.113.23.226 (talk) 06:20, 16 March 2005 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure that all of the quotes on this list, even after the article mentions lists of quotes incorrectly credited to Steven, are actually Steven quotes. I recognize a lot of them, which gives the list some credit, but a few (particularly the "Someone's making a penny" one) seem slightly out of his style. Is there any solid verification of these? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.119.35 (talk) 03:12, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it" is cited as one of his jokes. I found this page via The Comedian's Comedian which also list Chic Murray. The Chic Murray article contains a link: *A collection of some of his jokes The first of Chic's joke on that page is: "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.159.148.121 (talk) 00:16, 3 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I've heard him say the "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it" line, I'm sure...one of his earlier shows, probably. But as the page says, a lot of stuff is misattributed to him...it happens to people who are leaders in a specific style...Weird Al has literally thousands of parodies attributed to him, many of them highly offensive and not the sort of stuff he wants his fanbase to be listening to and thinking it's his.  Check out http://www.wright-house.com/steven-wright/jokes.html because it has a number of jokes that have been mentioned online and the author's attempted to find the true sources for them.  HTH  SmUX 14:23, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Both of the ones you bring up ("penny" and "small world") are indeed his jokes, he uses them on his standup album. Nevertheless, there are some dubious ones on there that I don't recognize from anywhere else. Namely, Can anybody corroborate that these were actually said by him? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.26.248 (talk) 03:47, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * "When the guy who made the first drawing board got it wrong, what did he go back to?"
 * "I tried sniffing Coke once, but ice cubes went up my nose."
 * "Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home."


 * I can't corroborate those particular lines, but I can confirm that some of the lines given aren't his. For example, I just deleted a line that started "The brain is a wonderful organ," which (elsewhere on the web) is universally attributed to Robert Frost. Since Frost is not one of the people who quotations are often arbitrarily assigned to (like Twain or Wright), and since the line isn't Wright's style at all, I deleted it. I suspect that many of the other one-liners listed are not Wright's either. Elysdir 20:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * The one about Coke is by Steven as it was on his album. HughBatey4 15:31, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Wednesday April 24th?
April 24th was a tuesday.

did When The Leaves Blow Away premiere on Comedy Central Wednesday the 25th or tuesday the 24th? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.189.34.249 (talk) 16:22, 25 April 2007 (UTC).


 * It was aired a day after it came out on DVD, so that might help people search for info SmUX 14:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Thursday December 6th 2007
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/NEWS02/712060353/1003/NEWS02 Steven Wright found in the woods... age matches with this steven wright. Should this get added to the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.104.153 (talk) 01:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Born in New York?
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800062500/bio —Preceding unsigned comment added by Craigboy (talk • contribs) 07:36, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Joke theft / plagiarism?
Charlie Prose also tells a joke about a person discussing ethnicities/backgrounds where the two in question are cowboys and Jews. The punchline is "Bronco Goldberg" instead of "Bucky Goldstein", but it's obviously the same joke. Does anyone know who "borrowed" from whom? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The fact that you've posted this indicates that you've seen Charlie Prose (plenty of clips available on YouTube). Charlie Prose does not appear to be hung up on writing his own jokes. If I didn't think he was sincere I'd say he was ripping off Tony Clifton/Andy Kaufman. Steven Wright is one of the most respected joke writers in US Comedy. Ratbas (talk) 13:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Quotes go in WikiQuotes
Befuddled Steve is correct. Quotes go in WikiQuotes. The long and expanding list of "notable" jokes (without a single reference saying a certain joke is more notable than others) has itself become a joke. I am deleting the section. - Do c  t  orW  00:38, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * If you think Befuddled steve is correct, then you should have followed his suggestion. Three quotes and a link to wikiquotes is what he suggested, not wholesale deletion. I think you were a bit quick on the trigger, my good fellow...Mracew (talk) 04:50, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * You are welcome to provide references which identify some jokes as "notable" (more notable than others), or at least a rationale good enough that you can defend it against an absurd onslaught of everyone adding their favorite jokes (if you are willing to police the article indefinitely). - Do c  t  orW  03:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

2009
Seems to be appearing on the Craig Ferguson late show quite a bit recently. AnonMoos (talk) 02:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Should this be removed?
Numerous lists of jokes attributed to Wright circulate on the Internet, sometimes of dubious origin. Wright has stated, "Someone showed me a site, and half of it that said I wrote it, I didn't write. Recently, I saw one, and I didn't write any of it. What's disturbing is that with a few of these jokes, I wish I had thought of them. A giant amount of them, I'm embarrassed that people think I thought of them, because some are really bad".[14]

This quote is also of dubious origin. The endnote (14) references an interview, but this quote appears nowhere in the interview. Perhaps Wright said this in some different interview? 69.3.58.69 (talk) 01:32, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Google Search: New York v. Cambridge
Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 03:52, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * "Steven Wright" "born in New York" - 61,500 results
 * "Steven Wright" "born" "in Cambridge" - 27,300 results

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no citation: "Ding Ho" comedy alumnus Bill Sohonage contradicts nytimes.com

 * Wolfgang’s at 901 Columbus Ave San Francisco was a 600 seat location
 * "The bulk of the show, described as Mr. Wright's entire nightclub act, was taped at Wolfgang's in San Francisco. Produced by Peter LaSally"
 * https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/16/arts/steven-wright-comic-on-location.html
 * this section contradicts nytimes.com :
 * "'By then Wright had firmly developed a new brand of obscure, laid-back performing and was rapidly building a cult-like following of hip, savvy fans and an onstage persona characterized by an aura of obscurity, with his penchant for non-sequiturs and subdued, slowly-paced delivery style only adding to his mystique. His opening act for the HBO concert was fellow 'Ding Ho' comedy alumnus Bill Sohonage, who claimed that Steven's ultra-casual, nearly catatonic demeanor was no act. 'He walked into my dressing room, minutes before I was to take the stage, and asked if he could borrow a shirt, as his had a giant pizza stain. You would think it might be normal to be a little nervous going on a college stage in front of 23,000, let alone having HBO out there filming, but as I passed by his room while walking on-stage I saw him sound asleep and loudly snoring.' The performance would become one of HBO's longest running and most requested comedy specials, and would propel him to great success on the college-arena concert circuit. '"

69.181.23.220 (talk) 08:06, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

1990s
Two paragraphs after stating he had a recurring role on Mad About You starting in 1992, the article says "after 1990" he hardly ever appeared on TV, doing only late night talk shows. This can be fixed, but as it stands, one or the other in wrong (ad he WAS on Mad About You).--Daveler16 (talk) 05:51, 20 October 2019 (UTC)