Todd Barry Quotes

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

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think I learned everything about comedy and timing and drama from watching 'The Muppet Show,' which was one of the best shows ever produced.

It's very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.

'Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

I'm hoping that, over the years, people will come back to 'MADtv' and think it isn't that bad. We had some really talented people on there.

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.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you'll look cool, I don't get that. But I don't watch standup anyway, so I don't know what they're doing.

I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.

I just watched a ton of comedy and saw a ton of different styles, and eventually you think, 'Oh, yeah, I could be like that.'