Nick Kroll Quotes

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

I want to show the world my humor.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.

I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

I've never had a Plan B. I've just always wanted to make people laugh, that's it.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

I think there's something so funny about Ram Dass. I was lucky enough to sit across from him at dinner once, and I got up the courage to tell him that he was my favorite comedian. Even though he's not a comic, he talks about showbiz in a certain way and understands that there's a presentation to it.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.