Demetri Martin Quotes

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

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

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

Nothing can help my comedy.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is really exciting to me.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

The kick [of comedy] is to think quickly. It's a great kick.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

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

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.