Tracy Morgan Quotes

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I do comedy for real people.

I always thought that the fastest way for me to get ahead and get noticed and to do well was to make my act very accessible. When I first started, I talked about family stuff, my dog, my cat. It was all I knew back then; I wasn't forcing anything, but I wasn't like, 'Hey, don't you hate doing homework?'

I'm not really a person who loves things that are surreal or not grounded in real life or reality. I like that - I want to find something that I can relate to and then maybe do a little bit more and embellish.

People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said she stepped on gum when she came up to the stage and she couldn't move, so she had to stay in one spot otherwise people would see the Chiclet.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.