Chris Lilley Quotes

I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

I was open to anything, but comedy was what I really loved.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

Larry David makes me laugh.

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it. I'm a big fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and people like that.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

Some of my favorite shows are Ricky Gervais' 'Extras' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.

Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.