Moshe Kasher Quotes

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

I think it'd be a lot of fun to jump back into the comedy world.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

I got into comedy at exactly the right moment.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

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.'

I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.