Lester Holt Quotes

I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies.

Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical.

Paul Rudd's a really weird, silly, silly man. He gets on 'Friends,' and he gets to show, like, one tiny little window of how truly berserk he can be.

In broadcasting, there's a lot of longevity offered to people like Griff Rhys Jones and Stephen Fry, who are polymaths more than comics. We're comics first and foremost.

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

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

I loved George Carlin... I used to sit in front of the TV and watch the HBO comedy specials. I loved those comedy specials.

I was lucky to spend so long on 'Blue Peter' and 'Newsround' and if you are a bit giddy, like I am, a bit daft, like I am, and you are the kind of person who makes lots of public mistakes, like I do, then it's sometimes hard for people to take me seriously.

There are funny gay people, and there are funny Indian people, and that's why we watch TV, to laugh. It only makes sense to include all types of funny people, whether or not they're gay or straight or what have you.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

I went to culinary school to eat.

I found it funny I was on 'Newsnight.'

Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you! Garfield: Feed me.

Let's be honest, you and I have probably seen a whole lot of family films - you have to do something special. Jim Strouse has the ability to write this hairpin turn between emotion and comedy that is very real. In real life, you don't have time to prepare for the bad stuff and you don't have time to prepare for the good stuff, it just sort of happens.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.

I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.

My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.