Todd Barry Quotes

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Larry David makes me laugh.

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

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

Comedy is something I enjoy doing.

I think comedy suits me best.

Sarah Silverman makes me laugh out loud every time I see her.

I'm a big fan of comedy such as Cendric the Entertainer.

I've always loved comedy.

The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.