Josh Gondelman Quotes

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I'm starting to find my own style.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and kind of in my voice, no accent no affectation. I'm growing into my own persona.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

It's important to have your own voice.

When I was 19 or 20 and doing my thing, I can't sit here and say I had this strong political agenda - I was literally just being myself.

I'd rather just be who I am and get the kind of movies that I want or the kind of modeling jobs I want based on who I am, really.

Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself after. Because one thing I was told that in standup you want to develop your own voice.

When I started acting in my twenties, a director on the set of an action film shouted, 'Just do it like your dad would.' I couldn't. I can only do things as I'd do them.

I think you can't help but write in your own voice.

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

I'm just trying to be myself - make music how I make music.

But, I think that as long as you have a distinct voice and personality, you can kind of dress how you want.

I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

I've always said my audience is just me. It's somebody out there who's exactly like me and just isn't writing Daring Fireball.

You have to be so honest in comedy.