Wayne Brady Quotes

I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.

I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.

'Dancing With the Stars' has become a phenomenon, and when I look at that type of reality show, it's like a variety show.

I love Holly Willoughby on 'This Morning.'

I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure.

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me.

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

I wanted to make a late-night-type show that happened to be in the morning for moms. Bravo was more interested in a blend of my books 'Momzillas' and 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut,' which is a collection of nonfiction essays.

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

I loved doing 'Frisky Business.' I didn't come up with it. I think John Oliver and the writers did.

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.