John Krasinski Quotes

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

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.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

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

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I told jokes badly.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

It's one thing to be funny in a tweet. It is another to be funny for an hour.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

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