Comedy Connection Quotes

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn't know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work.

Everything has happened so fast for me that I sometimes can't take it all in. I'm a huge 'Friends' fan, and meeting Matthew Perry in L.A., where he was as keen to talk to me about 'Extras' as I was to him about 'Friends,' was amazing.

The thing that struck me is so many people that said, "Hey, I've been watching you since I was 12, and I'm 25 now." It was a weird shift, because you start off fighting for an audience based on doing something so strange that only you find funny, and it's weird when other people find it funny. Those people aren't always ready to laugh yet, and there's a sort of standoffish quality to it.

Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

From my dad ... I think we have a similar sense of humor. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I think he's funny!

I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond.

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.