Brendan Coyle Quotes

If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people who go to comedy festivals and follow comedians, and really treat it like rock 'n' roll - which it can be, but more like the geeky rock 'n' roll.

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

I'm not going to say the market is flooded, but there are a lot of people doing comedy.

I remember being captivated by Steve Coogan and Eddie Izzard and wanting to do what they did. That generation of comedians was my main influence.

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

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

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'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.