Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

I like LA because it has a giant supply of great comedians.

I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent, and I loved that!

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

I always feel like you don't do comedy for the special - you do the specials so you can do comedy. That's like a commercial for people to come out and support the new shows.

I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growing up.

'Roc' was sort of an experiment because none of the lead actors on our show had any real television experience, especially in half-hour TV.

Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.

My favourite was 'Fantasy Football League.' I thought it would be the most exciting thing ever to be friends with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

I'm a big fan of comedy such as Cendric the Entertainer.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

Acting is fun; it's easier than writing, and if you get on a [TV] show, it draws people to your stand-up. That's ultimately what I'd like to do.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.