Kurt Braunohler Quotes

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

I have a feeling I'm going to wake up one day and say 'I can't do dirty stuff anymore, I want to go all clean.' I'll do clean stuff too, I like to entertain people. Then they egged me on; we shot it at The Laugh Factory.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

There's a lot of theaters in New York. You can always go out and be around a lot of like-minded comedians.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

Whoever is saying the joke is my biggest priority.

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

There's a lot of open mics, a lot of comedy clubs. Whatever money I could make was OK with me. As long as I could pay the rent, eat food, and tell jokes, doing it was good enough for me.

I've done the Hoboken Comedy Festival. It's cool.

I want to own a comedy club.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

I'd been doing standup since college.

I knew when I got out of high school that I was going to be a stand-up comic.

When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I was going to do theater and Broadway and stuff.

I get to do comedy for a living.

I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.

The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.