Sara Pascoe Quotes

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

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 was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

I told jokes badly.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

I'm not a good joke teller.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.