Erik Griffin Quotes

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

I think Eddie Murphy is the greatest comedian. I do think that Richard Pryor is the Godfather, but Eddie Murphy, in my opinion, has every comedic category in his arsenal. He can roast you. He can freestyle. He can host. He was LeBron James before we even saw LeBron James.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.