Todd Barry Quotes

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

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.

I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.