Reggie Watts Quotes

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

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.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

This is very unprofessional, but at 'The Toxic Avenger,' Demond Green, Matt Saldivar and I had a contest to see who could say the word 'ochre' the most times during the show. Well, I had a song called 'Choose Me Oprah,' so I just said ochre instead of Oprah the whole time.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

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.

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

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.

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.