Nikki Glaser Quotes

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

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

Comedy needs to happen naturally and be in touch with the character. When you see that guy in your office that everybody laughs at, he doesn't think he's funny. He's just being him, and that's the joke.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I don't really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that's what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

I guess I've kind of recognized what my worth is and what my specific brand of humor is. And that's not necessarily being the guy who's super witty and saying a joke every second. I'm the guy who you throw in a bizarre scenario, and I'll play it as real as possible.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

With the wacky jokes that we do on 'Great News,' you do overall still want to be coming from a place of truth with your character because, otherwise, it's just off the walls.

You want a solo to be structured, a song within a song, but you want it to sound like it's the first time you're playing it, too.

I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more comfortable as a performer, sharing my opinions on things, or things that've happened to me. That's where it's really going.