Hank Green Quotes

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

One of the most positive takeaways I've had from 'SNL' is when we'd make videos back in the day: we'd just write material as we were inspired, and so, in a given year, we'd only put out two or three videos.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.

I've always been a fan of comedy. I've always enjoyed it. It's something I'm very passionate about; it's like lifeblood to me. I had to pursue it. I thought I had a little bit of talent, and if I could make a living at it, I would do it. It's worked out so far.

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 think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.

Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

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

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.