Aries Spears Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

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.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I want to entertain.

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

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

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