Chris Gethard Quotes

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Jessie J's a funny, funny woman. What she does is she reels you in.

Jesse has opened for me extensively on the road so I’ve seen him do hundreds of sets. He is always super funny, has tons of material and the crowds love him. Bottom line, Jesse Joyce is a great comedian.

Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

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.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

The business of entertainment is business first. I do a comic strip; the job, the business, is to be funny. If I’m not funny, the politics don’t matter, because no one will read it.

To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.