Varun Sharma Quotes

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk off the stage, people know who I really am. I'm not saying it's great comedy, cool comedy or better comedy - but that's what I do, and I do it first for myself.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

It feels a lot freer doing a comedy.

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

'Cheers' was a good first step because I got to write my own material.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.

It takes a lot of time to write and put up a sketch show, but that's part of who I am. I don't think that ever goes away, that sensibility - especially coming from the Upright Citizens Brigade. That's just who I am.

When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.