Phil LaMarr Quotes

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Steve Allen was on Johnny Carson one time - I looked for it, but I couldn't find it - and he read the lyrics to 'Hot Stuff' by Donna Summer like a poet. He read them very seriously. I was maybe 8, but it killed me.

When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

One of the first comic things you do is imitate.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

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

I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar . . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "

Brent Weinbach made [Gangster Party Line].I guess I saw it when it first came out. And that is so goddamn funny to me. The guys are real dudes and they're not good, but they're also good enough.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.