Neal Brennan Quotes

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

I wanted to be a comedian.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.