Adam Conover Quotes

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

I've always loved doing comedy.

I'm drawn to the funny brand of comedy.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

I think comedy suits me best.

I want to keep all the comedy to interviews and outside-the-ring work.

The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.