The Comedy Club at Cheers

“When I started,” said comedian Steve Sweeney, “I worked with a lot of good people, folks like George Carlin and Jay Leno. In the beginning everyone said, ‘Don’t swear and don’t do all local stuff.’ Rather than wanting to be yourself, they wanted you to be somebody else. I never really cared about making it. I wanted to be different. So swearing was all I did. How did the guy make his money off the hula hoop? Reputation. I got a reputation as the guy with local characters who swears, like the guys from the corner. People identified with that. So I’ve been able to eek out a living from it.”

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