Jerry Van Dyke Quotes

I know George Burns was a very happy man.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

I made people laugh as a kid, but that's not how you make a living.

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.

Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

James Corden is a rare entertainment force who combines irresistible charm, warmth, and originality with a diverse range of creative instincts and performance talent.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.