Demetri Martin Quotes

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

I'm very fond of Amy Schumer. I think she's terrific, an enormous talent.

When I was younger it was people like Victoria Wood who I loved.

I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

I like LA because it has a giant supply of great comedians.

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

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 like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.