“My mother always said to me, if people are mean to you–and that happens in this business a lot–kill them with kindness. And I said, `Ma, you’re absolutely right. But I’d add a little something: Kill them with kindness, but kill them!'”
–Stand-up comedian and actor Lenny Clarke, tongue in cheek, commiserated with Q about trying to be a good guy in a not-so-good profession.
“At times, it’s a horrible business,” said Clark, 50, a comic for 27 years and an actor for 11 of those. Clark currently co-stars in ABC’s “It’s All Relative” (7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, WLS-Ch. 7).
“You have people that sometimes aren’t so nice with great power,” he added, “who spend most of their time trying to crush other people.”
And yet, the Cambridge, Mass., native stays fast to the advice of his parents to “treat everyone nice.”
“My father would say, `I want you to treat the janitor the way you’d treat the president of the United States, because a lot of times, the janitor might be an even better guy!'”