“Back in March I shot my last special (Chewed up) in Boston. The weekend before, I spent in California, working the set out for the last time at the Hermosa Beach Comedy and Magic Club. It happens to be really the perfect place to run an hour before you shoot it on tape. I was there for two nights and I saw on the schedule that the very next night, and for the following entire week, George would be there doing the same thing for his special. He shot his special (It’s Bad for ya) on the very same night that I was shooting mine. March 1st, 2008. We were on stage, shooting our specials that we had worked on all year in the same way, all the way down to working on it in the same last stage, at the very same moment. 

I don’t think that makes me special. But I knew it was going on and I thought about it the very second before I walked out on that stage to do that special. In my mind I thanked George for showing me the way and giving me the courage to say what I wanted on stage and to keep getting better and doing more. And I remember thinking that I was honored to shoot mine on his night. And that even though I never got to know him and I’ll never know if he ever maybe caught me on TV and if I ever made him smirk or laugh. But even from a distance it was, and is, an honor to know that I run in the same circle and do the same thing as that great man did.

I am intensely sad that he is gone. I owe him a huge debt for the rest of my life.

Thanks George. And goodbye.”

(Source: louisck.net)