Matt Groening Quotes

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.

I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.'

I always loved 'The Critic' and how specifically 'New York' it was.

Every script I've read for 'Black Jesus' has been hilarious.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

You know, funny can be universal.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.