Ed Speleers Quotes

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

I remember, when I saw the first 'Austin Powers' movie, I was blown away by how fun and original it was.

When I was growing up, I watched every sitcom imaginable.

My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.

I was into comic books as a kid.

I love going to the movies; I grew up going to the movies. I didn't really watch TV, growing up, other than weird cartoons like 'Beavis & Butt-Head.'

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

I think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

I was the class clown when I was a little young mustache.

I remember religiously watching Ellen DeGeneres' show when I was growing up.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.