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Grit, Spit, and Never Quit A Marine's Guide to Comedy and Life

Rob Riggle

Comedian Rob Riggle’s frank, funny, and inspirational memoir about how the lessons he learned while serving in the US Marines prepared him for life, especially when it came to pursuing his comedy dreams. Before he graced movie screens in films like

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The book detailed Rob Riggle's journey through the military and comedy, emphasizing the importance of the "don't quit" mindset learned in the Marines. He shared personal stories, including how he set a 10-year goal to join SNL and achieved it, and how he developed an inner drill instructor to push himself.

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But matter of fact, it's right here in this book, everybody. Oh, it's just shameless, shameless, shameless plug.

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The book detailed Rob Riggle's journey through the military and comedy, emphasizing the importance of the "don't quit" mindset learned in the Marines. He shared personal stories, including how he set a 10-year goal to join SNL and achieved it, and how he developed an inner drill instructor to push himself.

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But matter of fact, it's right here in this book, everybody. Oh, it's just shameless, shameless, shameless plug.

I wrote down in the book, if I quit flight school, I'm going to do what? Number one, get on SNL. Almost 10 years to the day that I wrote that, I got a call from Lauren Michaels asking me to join SNL.

And so it took a drill instructor tone to get me off my butt to go do what I needed to do.

I stood there and I argued with myself and I was like, go, go down to the UCB. It's open, Mike. You do sign up for five minutes. You just work out a character.

Can't Spit and Never Quit is available now. Rod Riggle!

Adam Carolla Show

Rob Riggle's new book was discussed, which dives deeper into themes of fear, failure, discipline, and never giving up.

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Got a book out called Grit, Spit and Never Quit. All right. Notes, and then it stopped. So now I'm going to look up here. Yeah. Oh, oh, notes. Oh, okay. I thought it was going to be like notes from th...

— Episode: Rob Riggle On Why Young Men Need Hardshi...

Episode: Rob Riggle On Why Young Men Need Hardship

Rob Riggle's new book was discussed, which dives deeper into themes of fear, failure, discipline, and never giving up.

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Got a book out called Grit, Spit and Never Quit. All right. Notes, and then it stopped. So now I'm going to look up here. Yeah. Oh, oh, notes. Oh, okay. I thought it was going to be like notes from the edge or something. Yeah, I made some notes. Anyway, Marine's Guide to Comedy in Life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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