John Mulaney Quotes

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

If you call me a comedian I will be very grateful. I will thank you profoundly. No, I love doing comedy. It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

Comedy is not pretty.

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.