Tag: Pardon My Take

"If the coach does not talk to [you], just give YOUR insights, but don’t make things up."

“The entire crowd in Pittsburgh is just like, 'oh, dear God, what did I just see?’.”

Portnoy, who is known as “El Presidente,” stated that the company is in the process of trying to reach a “break-even thing.”

“We aren’t a rehearsal show. We do our show live. The reactions when he says things are so genuine because it’s like 'oh my god, did he just say that!'"

"I want it to be natural. I want whatever comes out to come out and when it’s over, it’s over."

“Thankfully, my brother is a hell of a storyteller and he just has them banked."

“Having that consistency always being there for people I think makes you part of their routine and makes it anything than I could ever have imagined.”

“I didn’t feel like there were growing pains for me personally. Maybe the audience had growing pains…I do think that’s very apparent to me.”

"I went way overboard with it. I'm talking about losing his job, all this stuff."

“There’s no real great magic to anything that we’ve built here,” Portnoy said. “....We look for talented people and we give them absolutely no direction…. We literally tell them – ‘Do whatever you want’ – and you can see how passionate they are about it.”