Josh Gondelman Quotes

I want to be a late night host and the podcast is a way for me to do longer form interviews and to get better at interviewing.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.

I would love to do a podcast because I've done so many of them, guesting on them. Plus, anything goes, which I love.

I get a kick out of replying to people on Twitter sometimes if I make a joke.

I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do.

I enjoy talking to people about what I do - about films, music, directors, and art. It's very strange, having to talk about yourself.

Funny is funny. And if it's good, it travels.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.

The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!