Diora Baird Quotes

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

I crack myself up. Even I don't know what I'm going to say next.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

We don't worry about continuity because when we're doing so many improvs, it's better to get the laugh. It's better to get the great lines even if they're in the wrong part of the room.

If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

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

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

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.

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Nothing can help my comedy.