Kurt Braunohler Quotes

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

I've not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

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

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.

A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.

I really want to do comedy.

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

I have always wanted to do comedy.