Norm MacDonald Quotes

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

I was always interested in comedy, like when I was 5 years old. I watched 'I Love Lucy' and 'Benny Hill.' I would always joke around with my sister. My mom was into comedy, too. She would go to the video store and get a couple of movies and some stand-up comedians' tapes.

I really want to do comedy.

I want more stand-up comics in prime time. It's great for every comedian.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie - and they're such funny guys that they bring their own sort of twist to it all.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

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

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.