Natasha Leggero Quotes

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

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.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

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

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

I always wanted to be a comedian.

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.