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Traveling with my father

Mark Schiff September 21, 2006

My dad loved my act. He thought I was the funniest person in the world.

Comedy Is Not Pretty

Naomi Pfefferman November 9, 2000

Mark Schiff\’s friends looked at him funny after reading an early version of his play, \”The Comic.\” \”It ends with a murder-suicide,\” the comedian concedes. \”But it\’s funny.\”

A year after my father\’s unexpected death from a kidney transplant, I returned home.
Six months earlier, my mother had sold our house, the one I had lived in my entire life. The synagogue was the same. The family was the same. Their friends were the same.

Mr. Schiff Tries for Washington

Wendy J. Madnick April 8, 1999

I am a comedian and I have been lucky enough to have worked in my business for 20 years. This is a huge thing because most people in comedy never even work 20 days in 20 years. I have also been blessed to be part of a great group of comedians who have emerged in that time. Three of them are not just my peers, but also good friends. I both love and respect them as comedians and as human beings. Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser and Larry Miller.