Billy Gardell Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

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

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

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 learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.