Hugh Skinner Quotes

I grew up on 'Monty Python.'

Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's stand-up act when I was little, and just being mesmerized.

When I was young, I saw some of my heroes doing it on the telly. We're talking about Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Arthur Lowe, Ian McKellan, Kenneth Williams. These were all guys telling stories to me.

When I was younger it was people like Victoria Wood who I loved.

I grew up watching 'The Office' and 'Father Ted' and all the British things at that time - 'The Royle Family' - and the American ones like 'Friends,' 'Frasier' and 'The Simpsons.'

Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer.

I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death.

I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

Joan Rivers was my hero.

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'

I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.