Kyle Gass Quotes

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.

If I could do a sort of comical musical, that would be everything!

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.

The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.

You gotta keep the funny intact.