Jermaine Fowler Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

I told jokes badly.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

You can't just yell jokes at people.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.