Tom Green Quotes

I don't believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don't believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you're trying material.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

In high school, I didn't know what comedy was, but I was involved in speech and debate and public speaking.

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

My first gigs were at university: I'd dress up as Jesus, jump off a cross and dance to a Mick Jagger song. I don't know if it was funny or not, but it was a start.

I want to crack jokes about people. That is my right.

I love doing stand up. I think it's a really worthwhile art form. It's so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It's a good way to talk back to the world.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to do. It's great to have that much power over what you do. You don't have that in television.

I'm a 'Saturday Night Live' guy. I'm a comedy guy. As long as they're giving it to everyone, I don't care about how low they go, most of the time.

Adam Carolla is like Hitler if Hitler wasn’t funny.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public.

Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.

I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I'm not a politician.

What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

The comedians I always loved and respected the most were always filthy degenerates.

When you have a star, he becomes the focus of a variety show, and he has to take himself seriously. But with Super Dave, it's all phony anyway.

The only reason I was allowed to have a career for a quarter century as an insult comic is because it's all in jest and all for fun.

Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club at university, where a lot of those people got their start. I had a go and loved it immediately. After that, I just couldn't stop writing sketches, and it all took off from there.