Nathan Fielder Quotes

I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.

I told jokes badly.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I'm not a good joke teller.

I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

I was not funny growing up.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

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