Andrew Lawrence Quotes

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I wanted to be a comedian.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.

There's nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh... You either sink or swim. It's like verbal boxing.

Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock. That's what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

I actually don't have a lot of faith in comedy.

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more like a character that's sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.